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Offline The_Beast

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« on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 03:30:01 »
I took another look at the $5 keyboard I needed to press enter once (to boot an install of W7). It is just some cheapish rubber dome but.....



Those cheap rubber dome key caps kit on my MX board!!!! The pictures right now are just the 26 letter keys, but I did put a lot more of the white keys on my board (number pad, number row, F keys, insert, home....). Plus since I'm lazy, I didn't put any of the rubber gaskets on these new keys, it felts somewhat different and definitely more loud but I'm diggin' it.



Plus the keycaps are pretty good looking (they are ABS but feel like PBT since they are a bit rougher than my ABS keycaps that came with my WASD)

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« Reply #1 on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 04:44:57 »
cool I used to have a gateway keyboard a long time ago but I got rid of it. Good find. Could you tell me the model number
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« Reply #2 on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 06:48:09 »
They are even doubleshots too. Looks like SP keys, should be relatively easy to find some matching 1.25 keys for bottom row to finish set.
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« Reply #3 on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 10:57:45 »
5$ keyboard with doubleshots, weirrrrrd **** is going on.
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« Reply #4 on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 14:23:54 »
The model number is 2189013-XX-XXX



BTW what is a "SP key"? I would like liked to use the modifiers like control and alt but they didn't have the points for the stabilizers and they were bigger than what's on my board right now (since there is no windows key)
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« Reply #5 on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 14:29:16 »
"Looks like SP keys" = "those keycaps might have been made by Signature Plastics" (company that makes a lot of the doubleshots for group buys, and also made the original caps for Wyse boards among others)
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« Reply #6 on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 15:13:57 »
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"Looks like SP keys" = "those keycaps might have been made by Signature Plastics" (company that makes a lot of the doubleshots for group buys, and also made the original caps for Wyse boards among others)

Thanks :)

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ALPS.

Are you saying that the old keyboard uses Alps switches?
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« Reply #7 on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 15:23:21 »
There was a Wyse moogle buy that might sort you out if anyone wants to sell you an extra they ordered. Otherwise there may be some people that have some of the SP assorted crapbag keys that could help you piece something together for a matching or near matching set.
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« Reply #8 on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 15:27:57 »
Those don't look like Wyse colors to me, but what do I know.  (I need a Wyse moogle as well, was on hiatus while that whole thing went down...  pout)
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« Reply #9 on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 15:51:12 »
Well no those are grey legend it looks like, but the font would match and grey and navy wouldn't look bad together (IMO).
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« Reply #10 on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 19:40:56 »
Actually I'm pretty happy how it is, but if I do order some more keys, I might have to copy the color schemes (white inner keys with light gray outer keys, alternating F key colors.... )
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« Reply #11 on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 21:49:52 »
Ahh... the Anykey. I have one here right next to me on the floor. Damn fine doubleshot caps. I'm currently using them along with a piece of cardboard and some tape to markup my custom keyboard layout.

EDIT: And is it me, or are ponies getting more popular on GH? Hmm. No complaints here, time to break out the old vectors.
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« Reply #12 on: Sun, 27 May 2012, 22:31:12 »
I don't think that's an anykey in OPs picture. Besides layout and programming features they might have the same switches/caps, not sure. Are they all Maxi Switch?

Anykey looked more like this IIRC
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« Reply #13 on: Mon, 28 May 2012, 00:46:11 »
Found a picture of an anykey, from the geekhack classified, showing switch and cap.
They look essentially the same as those in OPs pictures.


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« Reply #14 on: Mon, 28 May 2012, 06:39:00 »
Yup, I've already looked into this keyboard a bit. It's not an Anykey and doesn't have the PCB/Chip used by the Anykey (sometimes they used the same PCB/chip but just disabled features) so the keyboard I have really isn't worth anything (compared to the Anykey)


Just wonder, are the key caps worth anything significant? or are they just another cheap set of ABS DS?
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« Reply #15 on: Mon, 28 May 2012, 09:37:18 »
You might get up to $20 for whole set depending on wear.
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« Reply #16 on: Mon, 28 May 2012, 16:46:14 »
Quote from: TexasFlood;601725
Found a picture of an anykey, from the geekhack classified, showing switch and cap.
They look essentially the same as those in OPs pictures.

By "Any", you mean the blank key in the middle of those impossible arrow keys?

And what's with the two separate \ keys? Seriously, Gateway sliced up backspace for the sake of a duplicate key?
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« Reply #17 on: Mon, 28 May 2012, 16:57:00 »
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By "Any", you mean the blank key in the middle of those impossible arrow keys?

Wikipedia has a good article describing the programming features of the AnyKey.

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And what's with the two separate \ keys? Seriously, Gateway sliced up backspace for the sake of a duplicate key?

Seems so, sadly.
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« Reply #18 on: Mon, 28 May 2012, 17:13:50 »
An actual keyboard called the AnyKey … always nice when someone in the IT industry manages some humour and levity. After the demise of the Happy Mac, it seems that all is lost.
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« Reply #19 on: Mon, 28 May 2012, 17:21:40 »
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An actual keyboard called the AnyKey … always nice when someone in the IT industry manages some humour and levity. After the demise of the Happy Mac, it seems that all is lost.


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