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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: TalkingTree on Fri, 19 February 2016, 05:06:39

Title: NTC KB-6251/2
Post by: TalkingTree on Fri, 19 February 2016, 05:06:39

Found this greek keyboard on eBay, keycaps are definitely not Cherry profile and they have a different font for legends.
Although, it's populated with Cherry MX Blue which are possibly vintage.

Bidding ends in two days.

Link (http://www.ebay.com/itm/NTC-KB-6251-2-CHERRY-MX-BLUE-SWITCHES-AT-KEYBOARD-/191806258012?hash=item2ca88b3b5c:g:knUAAOSwzgRWw2A-).

Title: Re: NTC KB-6251/2
Post by: cooldiscretion on Fri, 19 February 2016, 08:45:51

Kinda looks like those keycaps might be dyesub pbt the way the kept their color and all. This is a neat find.

Title: Re: NTC KB-6251/2
Post by: dgneo on Fri, 19 February 2016, 08:46:52

noooooooooo

Title: Re: NTC KB-6251/2
Post by: Techno Trousers on Fri, 19 February 2016, 15:28:26

$300 snipe incoming! ;)

Title: Re: NTC KB-6251/2
Post by: jacobolus on Fri, 19 February 2016, 17:01:34

Medium-thin, pad-printed ABS keycaps, but bilingual is fun. Profile is similar to Alps or Tai Hao caps, but with an extra angled bottom modifier/spacebar row, and an extra tall F row. The latter might also be useful to someone.

This is a kind of interesting keyboard, because the switches are plate mounted, but the plate is plastic. As you might imagine, this makes the keyboard pretty flimsy, but lighter weight than others of the same size.

I’m not sure if anyone has seen an MX blue version of this keyboard before. Most of them are white Alps, but there were also some with Aristotle MX clones, and some with clicky Alps clones. Earlier versions of the 6251 keyboard had amber Omron switches or blue Alps switches.

The seller took some nice pictures. Rehosted for posterity:
(http://i.imgur.com/pvNGHeP.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/CEIc9Se.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Kztzp68.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/PGpmlQ3.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/JhnaHju.jpg)