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Offline frax

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I hate keyboards
« on: Sun, 02 June 2019, 11:23:58 »
I really do :( As a collector of old computers I have keyboards everywhere. Sun typ 3, 4, 5, Ibm terminals, Wyse, VT 1xx, 2xx, 4xx, HP700 terminals, Macs, PC, RS6000 (ok, they are PS2 but black with a cool IBM logo), SGI etc etc. Easily > 50 keyboards taking up space.

And when I find a cool computer the keyboard is either missing, broken, dirty as hell or has one or several keycap missing.

Anyways, I didn't join to complain. One of my favourite computer from the 70-ies has a KeyTronic cap/foam keyboard and I wanna design a Cherry MX drop in replacement keyboard and this seems like the right place to ask question.

Offline vonCheerios

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Re: I hate keyboards
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 20 June 2019, 12:35:56 »
I really do :( As a collector of old computers I have keyboards everywhere. Sun typ 3, 4, 5, Ibm terminals, Wyse, VT 1xx, 2xx, 4xx, HP700 terminals, Macs, PC, RS6000 (ok, they are PS2 but black with a cool IBM logo), SGI etc etc. Easily > 50 keyboards taking up space.

And when I find a cool computer the keyboard is either missing, broken, dirty as hell or has one or several keycap missing.

Anyways, I didn't join to complain. One of my favourite computer from the 70-ies has a KeyTronic cap/foam keyboard and I wanna design a Cherry MX drop in replacement keyboard and this seems like the right place to ask question.

I'd be happy to take some of those antiques off your hands.  :p

Offline Findecanor

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Re: I hate keyboards
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 20 June 2019, 17:46:11 »
Welcome! Cool stuff. Vintage and retro-computing is a thing among quite a few users here ... even if the kids with their shiny new minimal keyboards with über-modded Cherry MX-clone switches and decorative artisan keycaps can be the loudest sometimes. ;)
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Re: I hate keyboards
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 21 June 2019, 09:26:59 »
I really do :( As a collector of old computers I have keyboards everywhere. Sun typ 3, 4, 5, Ibm terminals, Wyse, VT 1xx, 2xx, 4xx, HP700 terminals, Macs, PC, RS6000 (ok, they are PS2 but black with a cool IBM logo), SGI etc etc. Easily > 50 keyboards taking up space.

And when I find a cool computer the keyboard is either missing, broken, dirty as hell or has one or several keycap missing.

Anyways, I didn't join to complain. One of my favourite computer from the 70-ies has a KeyTronic cap/foam keyboard and I wanna design a Cherry MX drop in replacement keyboard and this seems like the right place to ask question.

-_- , i see. Here, you can find some expensive, but extremely high quality keyboard group buys that suit your needs
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