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Title: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: engicoder on Fri, 17 April 2015, 21:06:59
I was getting a lot of 404's with old links to Sandy's site. I found this on the main page:

http://sandy55.fc2web.com/

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Sorry, this site has been closed temporally ( or permanently, not sure this moment )
 2015, 04. 14

Sandy

Would be a shame to loose this excellent resource.  :(
Title: Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: CPTBadAss on Fri, 17 April 2015, 21:52:52
Holy **** that sucks :(
Title: Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: sethk_ on Fri, 17 April 2015, 22:05:04
What was the site?
Title: Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: CPTBadAss on Fri, 17 April 2015, 22:06:44
Sandy55 was like a one man keyboard encyclopedia. Alps force curves? Rare Alps boards? Odd ball Topre? Indepth information about all these JP only boards? He had them all. A lot of the DT Wiki seems to been gleaned from his website.

To me? God-tier keyboard information resource.
Title: Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: sethk_ on Fri, 17 April 2015, 22:07:29
Quote from: CPTBadAss on Fri, 17 April 2015, 22:06:44
Sandy55 was like a one man keyboard encyclopedia. Alps force curves? Rare Alps boards? Odd ball Topre? Indepth information about all these JP only boards? He had them all. A lot of the DT Wiki seems to been gleaned from his website.

To me? God-tier keyboard information.
Wow, thats insane
Title: Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: trizkut on Fri, 17 April 2015, 22:37:20
grab what you can from the wayback machine :\

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sandy55.fc2web.com/ (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sandy55.fc2web.com/)
Title: Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: dante on Sat, 18 April 2015, 17:37:51
:(
Title: Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: fohat.digs on Tue, 21 April 2015, 16:45:08
Quote from: trizkut on Fri, 17 April 2015, 22:37:20
grab what you can from the wayback machine

I never quite figured the wayback machine (even though I am old enough to remember it from 1960s Peabody cartoons!)

My original initiation into keyboard modification was using Sandy55's classic IBM bolt-mod guide. That was probably early-mid-2011. How do I look for that?
Title: Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: trizkut on Tue, 21 April 2015, 17:20:55
Quote from: fohat.digs on Tue, 21 April 2015, 16:45:08
Quote from: trizkut on Fri, 17 April 2015, 22:37:20
grab what you can from the wayback machine

I never quite figured the wayback machine (even though I am old enough to remember it from 1960s Peabody cartoons!)

My original initiation into keyboard modification was using Sandy55's classic IBM bolt-mod guide. That was probably early-mid-2011. How do I look for that?

Looks like it's still up (for now)

http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/repair_model_m.html

but if it goes down you should be able to find it here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141222121902/http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/repair_model_m.html
Title: Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: engicoder on Tue, 21 April 2015, 17:37:46
Sandy's site is definitely hit and miss right now. Some stuff is still there, with some stuff returns 404.
Title: Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: chyros on Tue, 21 April 2015, 19:04:49
QUICK COPY ALL OF IT!
Title: Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: fohat.digs on Tue, 21 April 2015, 19:11:30
Quote from: trizkut on Tue, 21 April 2015, 17:20:55

Looks like it's still up (for now)


This is junk.

For several years, he had the real, industry-standard, go-to guide for bolt-modding a Model M.
Title: Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
Post by: trizkut on Tue, 21 April 2015, 22:09:23
Quote from: fohat.digs on Tue, 21 April 2015, 19:11:30
Quote from: trizkut on Tue, 21 April 2015, 17:20:55

Looks like it's still up (for now)


This is junk.

For several years, he had the real, industry-standard, go-to guide for bolt-modding a Model M.

Well, I don't know what it looked like.  All I could find was ripster's "american style" Sandy's mod from the old wiki

http://web.archive.org/web/20101125012627/http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:6615&do=comments