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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: ander on Thu, 08 June 2017, 19:39:00
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I see one of these remarkable things has hit eBay:
WEY TEC Model MK06 Multifunctional Keyboard (http://www.ebay.com/itm/WEY-TEC-Model-MK06-Multifunctional-Keyboard/252519259132)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/pVsAAOSwi0RXxiDj/s-l1600.jpg)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/yggAAOSwdIFXxiDq/s-l1600.jpg)
I almost blew it off, till I saw Chyros's review (https://deskthority.net/review-f45/wey-tec-mk06-modular-keyboard-review-cherry-mx-clear-t16575.html) and learned that if anything could be considered the Swiss Army Knife of keyboards, this is it.
Unfortunately, at $200 shipped, it's not cheap (and this one doesn't have the extra upper-right corner keypad like the one in C.'s review). But where else will you find a board with not one but three colour LCD displays, that can control up to 16 computers and connect to just about anything? And don't overlook the 13 embedded-LED keys, thick double-shot ABS buttons with Cyrillic secondary legends, and fruit-salad corner pad.
It's the most compact version of a NASA mission control centre you're going to see out there.
Obviously a company has to be pretty proud of its product when it puts two logo badges on it. :?)
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Obviously a company has to be pretty proud of its product when it puts two logo badges on it. :?)
Probably for those people with poor peripheral vision so that a logo is visible at all times.
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There are 3 out of 8 left. Note that these don't appear to come with the cables, box and probably not the code either, so it may be impossible to get any of these to ever work.
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Very cool keyboard. I wouldn't have known anything about these weren't it for Chyros' review (which was excellent, btw).
It reminds me in a lot of ways of the Reuters / Cherry G80-9009HAU:
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I don't really know what special features it has compared to the Wey-Tec, but from the keycaps one could assume that it is also a trading desk keyboard with multiple screen support. I would love to see one of these powered up and running in all its glory. :-D