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Offline engicoder

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Sandy55 site closing!?
« on: Fri, 17 April 2015, 21:06:59 »
I was getting a lot of 404's with old links to Sandy's site. I found this on the main page:

http://sandy55.fc2web.com/

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Sorry, this site has been closed temporally ( or permanently, not sure this moment )
 2015, 04. 14

Sandy

Would be a shame to loose this excellent resource.  :(
   

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Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 17 April 2015, 21:52:52 »
Holy **** that sucks :(

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Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 17 April 2015, 22:05:04 »
What was the site?

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Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 17 April 2015, 22:06:44 »
Sandy55 was like a one man keyboard encyclopedia. Alps force curves? Rare Alps boards? Odd ball Topre? Indepth information about all these JP only boards? He had them all. A lot of the DT Wiki seems to been gleaned from his website.

To me? God-tier keyboard information resource.

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Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 17 April 2015, 22:07:29 »
Sandy55 was like a one man keyboard encyclopedia. Alps force curves? Rare Alps boards? Odd ball Topre? Indepth information about all these JP only boards? He had them all. A lot of the DT Wiki seems to been gleaned from his website.

To me? God-tier keyboard information.
Wow, thats insane

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Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 17 April 2015, 22:37:20 »
grab what you can from the wayback machine :\

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sandy55.fc2web.com/


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Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 18 April 2015, 17:37:51 »
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Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 21 April 2015, 16:45:08 »
grab what you can from the wayback machine

I never quite figured the wayback machine (even though I am old enough to remember it from 1960s Peabody cartoons!)

My original initiation into keyboard modification was using Sandy55's classic IBM bolt-mod guide. That was probably early-mid-2011. How do I look for that?
"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
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Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 21 April 2015, 17:20:55 »
grab what you can from the wayback machine

I never quite figured the wayback machine (even though I am old enough to remember it from 1960s Peabody cartoons!)

My original initiation into keyboard modification was using Sandy55's classic IBM bolt-mod guide. That was probably early-mid-2011. How do I look for that?

Looks like it's still up (for now)

http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/repair_model_m.html

but if it goes down you should be able to find it here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141222121902/http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/repair_model_m.html


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Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 21 April 2015, 17:37:46 »
Sandy's site is definitely hit and miss right now. Some stuff is still there, with some stuff returns 404.
   

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Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
« Reply #10 on: Tue, 21 April 2015, 19:04:49 »
QUICK COPY ALL OF IT!
Check my keyboard video reviews:


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Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
« Reply #11 on: Tue, 21 April 2015, 19:11:30 »

Looks like it's still up (for now)


This is junk.

For several years, he had the real, industry-standard, go-to guide for bolt-modding a Model M.
"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

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Re: Sandy55 site closing!?
« Reply #12 on: Tue, 21 April 2015, 22:09:23 »

Looks like it's still up (for now)


This is junk.

For several years, he had the real, industry-standard, go-to guide for bolt-modding a Model M.

Well, I don't know what it looked like.  All I could find was ripster's "american style" Sandy's mod from the old wiki

http://web.archive.org/web/20101125012627/http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:6615&do=comments