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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Philister on Tue, 28 February 2017, 12:58:52
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Is this a known issue with Compaq (and also Cherry?) G80-11800/11801 boards? It's really rather irritating...
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The keys are laid out then lasered for the printing so I don't think it's unheard of for something like that to happen.
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Yea your u a o keys have funny little marks over them and your keys are all over the place like the z key...
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Er no, that's the way God intended... As J. Q. no doubt discerned correctly, what worries me is the tactile bump on the K key instead of J.
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This is some foreign layout and I'm not sure what it's called. You can see the A and the O with the two dots over it.
The bumps may be correct for the home row for that board.
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That looks annoying AF! >:D
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So the only actual mistake i see is the home row dot is on the wrong key (k instead of J)? is that what you mean?
edit: i see you mentioned it already. yeah thats definitely irritating.
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I don't have this keyboard any more:
(http://telcontar.net/About/Firetrack/AppleDesign_Keyboard.jpg)
The eejits put two backslashes on the same keyboard, one on each side. The trouble is, one of them is where a PC has backslash, so I'd press what I thought was \ (in fact, `), get `, look down at the keyboard to wonder what I did wrong, and see a key that really does say \ — so why is it typing `? Oh right, I need the other \ key.
Since I was switching between Mac OS and Windows, it drove me mad having the key mislabelled, so (as you can see) I carved out half of \ with a knife to make it vaguely resemble what that key does in Mac OS. That was the NMB version, with the screw-up.
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Its ISO?
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It's just a QWERTZ keyboard?
Probably German, but i don't know enough about QWERTZ to tell you specifically, German is just the most common one that I know of.
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It's the normal German QWERTZ layout, but the home-row mark is on K rather than J, as it normally is—e.g.:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/German-T2-Keyboard-Prototype-May-2012.jpg)
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it is just an normal Geman board (probably an cherry, guessing LRNDE) - so its ISO-DE, lasered caps.
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There is a dot on the K key when it should have been on the J key. That took me a while to spot, because I usually don't care about them.
BTW, it is believed that if a Cherry G80-11800 has homing dots instead of homing bars then the keycaps should be thick PBT. Is this true for this keyboard?
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Yes, they do indeed look extra thick, just like the person was who is responsible for putting the tactile bump on the wrong keycap!
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Yes, they do indeed look extra thick, just like the person was who is responsible for putting the tactile bump on the wrong keycap!
LOL. It couldn't have been intentional; different fingers would be on the marks. It makes no sense. Then again, Donald Trump just became president, so sense-making may be a thing of the past :?O
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It actually makes sense because people are not that idiots and smart enough to hate Clintons hehehe.