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Offline N8N

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Dammit, guys.
« on: Sun, 17 July 2011, 13:28:10 »
I already have a nasty habit of looking at pull stations whenever I walk into a building to see who the manufacturer of the FA system was (having worked in the industry for something close to 12 years now) and I also can spot a nice classic car from a shocking distance away.  (it makes female passengers more comfortable though because a) it is clear that I'm an observant person and b) I'm as likely to be ogling the sweet 70's Aston Martin as I am to be looking at another female walking down the street, so I get a free pass on a lot of stuff )  I also notice what kind of wristwatches people are wearing (spotted a nice Tissot the other day...)  Well, today I had to take my old pickup truck out which I rarely do (because it's a POS and I only drive it when I actually need to haul something) and when I filled up I noticed that the coolant recovery bottle was looking a little low.  Stopped at a cheap parts store for a bottle of coolant and what do I see on the counter but a Cherry MX-8100...  sigh...  last thing I need is to start eyeing other people's keyboards...

now I see why my G80 was so filthy when I received it though!
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Dammit, guys.
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 17 July 2011, 13:31:25 »
Don't worry, you'll get used to it.

However, other people will still find you weird.
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Offline N8N

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Dammit, guys.
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 17 July 2011, 13:34:39 »
I don't think that has anything to do with keyboards (although my roommate questions my sanity at the moment, as I haven't sold a single keyboard that I've bought yet, so there's about eight of them laying around the basement) but thanks for the warning :)
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Offline audioave10

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Dammit, guys.
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 17 July 2011, 20:35:27 »
Gee...you seem perfectly normal to me.
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Dammit, guys.
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 17 July 2011, 20:44:54 »
Yeah, me to. Though, if you find yourself identifying keyboards because "it's a very distinctive sound," you may want to start keeping that to yourself. That will definitely get you strange looks.
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Offline N8N

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« Reply #5 on: Sun, 17 July 2011, 20:51:49 »
Hah.  I already do that with cars... "that's got to be a Subaru.  Sounds kind of like an old VW but less metallic."  I swear I can even tell the difference between a small block Ford and Chevy just by listening to the exhaust.

Ask me what kind of shoes she was wearing though... um... er... "not work boots?"  yeah, I got to work on that.  I just don't care about shoes the way I do about cars though...
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Dammit, guys.
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 17 July 2011, 20:55:53 »
Whereas I've scored many points over the years just by being able to identify a girl's shoes. Though I get looked at oddly if I can tell them apart based on sound, though I can usually only do that with boots. Frye boots have a very distinctive sound to them, in my experience.
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Offline REVENGE

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Dammit, guys.
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 17 July 2011, 21:08:39 »
Sounds perfectly normal to me. Actually, I have curiously frequent run-ins with Cherry boards when I'm doing keyboard related business. For example, the beauty shop where I purchased my hydrogen peroxide was using G81 POS boards, while my local post office uses white 11900s.
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Dammit, guys.
« Reply #8 on: Sun, 17 July 2011, 22:00:06 »
Doesn't sound strange to me. I did window washing as a summer job for a few years and by the 3rd year I started to get to know the regular once a year summer customers, but I also knew what computers they used. My boss would always find it funny when we would pull up outside a house and I'd say "Oh, yeah this house, last time we did it the weather was bad and they had 3 computers, 1 hp pavillion with a 19" screen, 1 Dell work station in the office with a 30" monitor and their oldest son had a nice gaming machine in his bedroom with a 24" Samsung monitor and a pair of nVidia cards waiting to be installed in SLI, I didn't care much for his mouse, keyboard or headphone choices though." There was also one house that I distinctly remember noticing that the owners were ripped off when buying their PC. It was in 2009 and they had a Core2 Quad system with around 4GB of ram, but they were running windows XP in classic mode with a resolution of 800x600 on a tiny little CRT. And taking a look at what was installed showed that they bad a mostly vanilla system with MS office installed. Still using Internet Explorer 7 or something. And I almost forgot the "Windows XP for dummies" and "Computing for Seniors" alongside it on the desk.
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« Reply #9 on: Mon, 18 July 2011, 01:27:00 »
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Yeah, me to. Though, if you find yourself identifying keyboards because "it's a very distinctive sound," you may want to start keeping that to yourself. That will definitely get you strange looks.

the horror! Been there, done that, got REALLY strange looks from the cashier at the new supermarket around here...(they have brand new NCR POS boards with cherry blacks and some really sweet custom keycaps). Another supermarket near me still uses old buckling spring IBM cashiers stations.
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Offline N8N

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Dammit, guys.
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 20 July 2011, 20:25:09 »
well, now I've done something even more colossally stupid.  Bought a pair of MY7000s for the keycaps - both were "parts only" and I combined shipping with something that I actually wanted, so they cost me like $9.  Was cleaning up the last of my keyboards and also stripped the caps off the MYs to clean them.  (I had an idea - that only partially worked, but anyway.  I did get some other stuff I wanted/needed out of the deal, like labeled numpad keys and more clear tops for the relegendable keys.)

Instead of just stopping there, though, I took the two MYs and made a functional keyboard out of the pile.  I'm typing on it right now, actually, and it feels just as awful as I'd expect it to.  But I had the parts, so...  And by the way, my idea wouldn't work - apparently MY keys use different stabilizers than MX keys, so unless I'm missing something (am I?), I couldn't use it to convert one of my MX8000s to ANSI enter.  D'oh.  At least I got labeled numpad keys.  I don't know why it bothers me not to have them, but it does.

BTW you can swap stems and springs in MY switches as well.  I wasn't going to go to the trouble of soldering to fix this POS, but both boards had a couple busted stems so I just picked the better looking of the two and swapped those with seldom-used ones from the other board.  Don't ask me why.  Seemed like more fun than doing actual work, which is what I probably should be doing.

Oh, and BTW, if anyone has a 2x numpad zero with the "INS" text, or a 1x menu key, or a Cherry relegendable "PgUp" key, I could use all of those.  (the first for the MX8000 that I'm going to swap the labeled numpad keys onto; the latter for the POS POS board that I'm typing on right now - both parts boards were missing those keys.  I put another "CTRL" key in place of Menu and cut out a "PgUp" label and stuck it on a spare F-key.)

But anyway, I'm currently typing this on a board that I just put together, am testing, will probably never use again, and probably isn't worth anything other than for the (OK but not great) keycaps.  So yeah, I'm not real bright sometimes.
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Offline BiNiaRiS

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« Reply #11 on: Wed, 20 July 2011, 23:07:28 »
Yup, It's kinda sad, but I blame cherry for making such a bad switch.

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