This is the story of three Model M's:
- My Original Model M
- Sealcouch's Custom Doo-Doo Board
- A Black Rubber Dome Model M called Smartrex
This is the story of three very different IBM Model M's;
My original Model M I aquired back in 2001 back when I was a Freshman in High School. I was helping a teacher clean a storage when I encountered the sexy beast. It was big, heavy and clicky. Basically love at first type.
Up until recently I decided that I wanted a BLACK Model M, seeing as the famous M13 was basically an unobtainable of myself I decided to tackle it a different way.
I saw in an auction a UNICOMP SMARTREX keyboard and immediately fell in love with it, but I had just one problem... R-U-B-B-E-R D-O-M-E. Well I guess that was the end of it until I said to myself wait I can fit a Model M in here!
Wanting to keep my original Model M in its original incarnation I set out to find another Model M.
Looking in the EBAY auctions all I saw where dirty and as-is Model M or Model M that where waay out of my price liking.
Thats when I found THIS:
This Model M had been properly dyed by GH Member Sealcouch, just in an akward array of colors!! Dark chocolate brown grey keys and the white keys where dyed in a very nice blue. Thou the Model M was VERY UGLY (and cheap) I saw potential in it.
THE PLAN was to take the dark chocolate keys and replace them into my original Model M along with the red Fentex keys
This left me now with a whole set of blue keys (from the doo-doo board) and grey keys (from my Model M) Now all I had to do was recase the blue key monster into the SMARTREX case
It became my custom BLACK Model M. Now the SMARTREX case has a decal over the LED, to reuse the LED's I added a LED Cover from a Model M that had a black border to properly blend with the case.
To Be Continued...Today miraculously I recieved both the smartrex and the doo-doo board
The doo-doo board looks better in person than in the photos, I give sealcouch credit for the perfect dye procedure and the AWSOME pack job
Right away I went to the tools and cracked them open
Started swapping keys and stuff around
Then I tried this
I went with the second choice
Let me know what you guys think and if I should change anything
SPECIAL THANKS GOES OUT TO KISHY, RIPSTER, SEALCOUCH AND THE TEAM OF FENTEK