The pictures are supposed to be BIGGER, but since my ISP won't host the pics properly, I had to settle for photobckt.
Here is the MX11800 w/ Wyse Doubleshot keycaps. The only ones that won't drop in are shift, ctrl, alt, and spacebar. To make it look better, I left out the rest of the side keys.
It's a subtle difference, but the keys make a totally different sound now, and it's exemplified when i click around on the tab, caps, ctrl, /, and tilde keys. It's a completely different "tone". The keys are a lot heavier, perhaps by more than a few grams. I like the feel a lot more. Totally glad I did this.
May not count as a 'mod', but I plan on painting this thing pretty soon (it's gotta match the rest of my stuff)
As for *where* I got them, it's a place called REPC... and it's less "rows of sexy $2 keyboards" and more of a "big pile of $1 keyboards grab n go"... The service is non-existent, the prices are low, and it's a warehouse setting with big costco rolling platforms to lug around. Just my kinda place.
Original AEKs definitely weren't white Alps. They weren't clicky at all, just subtly tactile during the stroke (usually pink, orange or cream sliders, IIRC). The wonderful sound they make is all due to the resonance of the keys, the heavy curved plate and the thick case - a wonderful "Click-Clock" or "Thick-Thock" sound from bottoming out and back up again. They were indeed built like tanks.
The orange slider Apple Desktop Keyboard is what originally shipped with the Apple IIgs computers, and owes some of its form factor to the "Cassie" prototype boards discussed here. (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=7456&highlight=apple+prototype)
Wish they had stayed with the original concept, because though they are nice and small with a good key-feel, that frame of plastic can make keys bind under certain conditions of age and/or use.
Seeing that no one has mentioned this yet you can just upload them here. You can attach up to 5 images per post. But once you have attached them to one post you can refer to them or use them in any post. Scroll down a little on the Advanced edit page you will see a button labeled "Manage Attachments" us that to attach your pictures. But note your pictures are size limited I forget what the size limit is off hand but I post 1280x800 ones all the time. I think much bigger than that and you run into the limit.
You can inline the images into your message body in two different ways once your images are attached.
1) press the paper clip in the editor tool bar and pick the image you want to inline it will be placed where your cursor is. This places the BBCode [noparse][/noparse] into the editor for you. The limitation with this method is that you can only do this in the post that contains the attachments. So when someone quotes/replies to your message the images will not show up. Example:
2) Use the [noparse]Show Image(http://url to file)[/noparse] BBCode to do the same thing. You can get your attached images URL by opening the image in another tab (On Linux and FF that would be middle click the image name right above the "Manage Attachments" button) copy and paste the URL into your message editor. Advantage this type of inline image will show up when someone quotes your message. You have to use this method if you want to inline a image that is not attached to the post you are working on.
and an example (one of ripster's lego pictures attached to some message somewhere):
[ig]http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=5094&stc=1&d=1255283877[/img]
Hope that helps with the pictures.
Good ol' RE-PC...Show Image(http://www.repc.com/images/tuk2-small.jpg) (http://www.repc.com/)
Sadly for me, they tend to put a lot of their interesting keyboards on Ebay (http://stores.ebay.com/RE-PC-ONLINE-STORE__W0QQ_sidZ16970045?_nkw=keyboard) instead of in the stores, and they're much more expensive on Ebay.
Great place to browse, though.
I built one of my first computers there when it first opened, been one of my fav places ever since. The renton location is a bit bigger than seattle, but I think seattle has better finds.
Count yourself among the lucky ones... down here in southern California we're not so fortunate to have a store like this, at least I haven't found it yet.
Does he have cleavage like the guy in the pic? That would be scary.