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Title: White Lettered for HHKB - only from elittekeyboard?
Post by: test157 on Fri, 23 April 2010, 15:12:10
anyone know where from I can buy white lettered keycaps for hkkb? or the elitekeyboards the only one source of them?
Title: White Lettered for HHKB - only from elittekeyboard?
Post by: Tr0j4nM4x1mus on Fri, 23 April 2010, 15:15:57
elite is out of stock right now but I wrote them got this return "We'll have more of the HHKB keycaps in the first week of May.

Best regards,
Brian
EliteKeyboards
http://elitekeyboards.com"

I have an HHKB pro with white blanks I'd like to have lettered keys also...I don't care if they are black or white
Title: White Lettered for HHKB - only from elittekeyboard?
Post by: aegrotatio on Thu, 29 April 2010, 10:03:24
If you can find the HHKB "Dvorak" conversion kit it is usually available in black and white.  I bought both a long time ago.  It only has enough keys to change to Dvorak (no ENTER, Backspace, etc.).
Title: White Lettered for HHKB - only from elittekeyboard?
Post by: aegrotatio on Fri, 30 April 2010, 10:00:55
I'll see what I can find.  I have boxes and boxes of keyboards to my wife's dismay.  There's nothing special, just keys in a white, cloth bag.  I used them to make a checkerboard-style keyboard.

Oh, and here's the weird part.  There was a Dvorak kit and a regular keycaps kit.  I cannot tell the difference between the two items, but I didn't check hard enough.  I think the regular kit has number and special keys like Enter but I honestly don't recall being able to pry those keys off of a real HHKB Lite 2 or HHKB.
Title: White Lettered for HHKB - only from elittekeyboard?
Post by: aegrotatio on Fri, 30 April 2010, 13:22:21
Quote from: ripster;177535
Key profiles differ by row.  That's why this Dvorak HHKB kit is interesting.  The PFU FAQ makes no mention of it.


That's right, I never thought of that.  I'll keep my eye out for it.  I think I remember where it is.