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Title: Help me trick out a Unicomp PC - 122!
Post by: aptivaboy on Thu, 24 March 2016, 12:26:54

Hi all,

GREAT NEWS! It looks like I’ll be getting a raise and a bonus for the first time in nearly 6 years. I’m still not close to being back where I was before that 11% pay cut a few years back when the financial crisis hit, but it’s a start. I plan on saving most of the money and paying bills, but I will probably get a new PC-122 from Unicomp.

So…

Help me trick out a PC-122!

I’m interested in different key color combos and am wondering what you all would suggest. I’m partial to blues, greys, lavenders, you know, more neutral and pastel type colors, so I’d probably get some custom keys from Unicomp, maybe make the function and border keys a darker color like deep blue, the center legend keys white or grey, with middle shades in between. What are your thoughts on this? Ideas?

I’ll also remap the keys to use some media keys, etc. Maybe a special key to open Icanhazcheezburger.com, ‘cuz I need my daily dose of lolcats; stuff like that.

So what do you all suggest? Any neat pics of tricked out PC-122s or Model Ms in particular?

Many thanks,

Robert

Title: Re: Help me trick out a Unicomp PC - 122!
Post by: Lurch on Thu, 24 March 2016, 12:43:47

I highly suggest you take a look into tricking out a Model F-122. A bit more effort will be required, but likely you will be extremely pleased with the results. Especially if you already like how Model M's feel, and have never tried Model F.

Model F is the crème de la crème. Fohat's F-122's are great examples of what is possible.

Title: Re: Help me trick out a Unicomp PC - 122!
Post by: jdcarpe on Thu, 24 March 2016, 12:46:14

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=48667.0

:)

Title: Re: Help me trick out a Unicomp PC - 122!
Post by: fohat.digs on Fri, 25 March 2016, 21:18:55

The simple classic accessories are the RGB set and a red Escape key, ordered from Unicomp along with the keyboard to save shipping.

Within a general pearl/pebble color scheme, you can make individual keys stand out in a subtle way (I use F2 and F5 a lot, for example) so bright white for a previously pearl key or light blue or lavender for a pebble key can make a subtle but useful addition.

Title: Re: Help me trick out a Unicomp PC - 122!
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 26 March 2016, 04:50:00

Unicomp have (had?) coloured BS keycaps, that's about your only source for them unfortunately.

I have a Unicomp RGB set, and the Shifts are slightly different shades of green, something I've seen in a lot of Unicomp RGB sets.

Other than that some people have had success dyeing their keycaps.