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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: LifeIsOnTheWire on Thu, 03 November 2016, 08:22:03

Title: Keycaps from the ICL "One Per Desk" computers?
Post by: LifeIsOnTheWire on Thu, 03 November 2016, 08:22:03
Someone is selling sets of keycaps from the old ICL One Per Desk computers on r/mechmarket  (https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/4y4uok/euro_h_various_cherry_icl_alps_keycaps_sa_retro/)

I'm totally in love with these keycaps, but I don't have any ALPS keyboards for them. 

They're definitely a sclupted profile, and they appear to be flat-top (is this right?)

Does anyone know anything about these keycaps?   Who made them, and did they come on any other computers?

http://imgur.com/a/jvvWB
Title: Re: Keycaps from the ICL "One Per Desk" computers?
Post by: tomboy on Tue, 06 December 2016, 07:59:28
I have this set on my atreus, I'm loving the caps.
 
Here's a potato picture of the profile, the caps themselves have a flat top:

(https://i.imgur.com/fxk5LTR.png)

and here's how they look on the board:

(https://i.imgur.com/8FqzNmN.jpg)

Title: Re: Keycaps from the ICL "One Per Desk" computers?
Post by: LifeIsOnTheWire on Fri, 30 December 2016, 10:21:31
Quote from: tomboy on Tue, 06 December 2016, 07:59:28
I have this set on my atreus, I'm loving the caps.
 
Here's a potato picture of the profile, the caps themselves have a flat top:

Show Image
(https://i.imgur.com/fxk5LTR.png)


and here's how they look on the board:

Show Image
(https://i.imgur.com/8FqzNmN.jpg)


Thanks for sharing, your board looks fantastic.   Love those caps.  I think I would build an ALPS board specifically for those, if I got my hands on a set for a good price
Title: Re: Keycaps from the ICL "One Per Desk" computers?
Post by: romevi on Fri, 30 December 2016, 10:56:50
Hot damn. I was just looking that board up. If I had the cash I'd buy a set prontisimo for my Alps Clueboard.

E3E built a board using those caps:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=86091.msg2319412#msg2319412

(http://i.imgur.com/jildNE7.jpg)
Title: Re: Keycaps from the ICL "One Per Desk" computers?
Post by: samwisekoi on Fri, 30 December 2016, 11:17:56
Aren't those the Retro DSA colors?  If so, that would be an SP run.

 - Ron | samwisekoi
Auto-typed by my GH-122 keyboard.
Title: Re: Keycaps from the ICL "One Per Desk" computers?
Post by: romevi on Fri, 30 December 2016, 15:15:23
Quote from: samwisekoi on Fri, 30 December 2016, 11:17:56
Aren't those the Retro DSA colors?  If so, that would be an SP run.

 - Ron | samwisekoi
Auto-typed by my GH-122 keyboard.
E3E's keyboard uses a mix of SA Retro and One Per Desk caps. The One Per Desk are original caps by Alps, colors and all.
Title: Re: Keycaps from the ICL "One Per Desk" computers?
Post by: Hak Foo on Sat, 31 December 2016, 12:33:59
But the DSA Retro (and presumably SA retro) colours did mimick the One-Per-Desk.