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Offline jkercado

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I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« on: Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:15:11 »
I had it as an all-black unit with no legends at all. While it looked cool, and was using it for training myself not to look at the keyboard (since I'm not a touch-typist), I found that I made far too many errors, hurting my productivity. I had been using it like this for about 4-5 months.

So I had an idea...Took the keyboard home with me yesterday and after checking, decided that the regulat white Model M keys would look really nice against the black keyboard and keys, so I did this:



I like it. :) I call it the tuxedo look. ;)
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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:17:11 »
where did you get the blank keys?
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Offline jkercado

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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:24:03 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:17:11
where did you get the blank keys?

Directly from Unicomp. They sell both the black blanks and the pearl/gray blank sets.
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Offline Turbo Slaab

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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:27:00 »
Looks good man! The only thing I would have done differently was leave the number row black as well.
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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:28:09 »
Quote from: Turbo Slaab on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:27:00
Looks good man! The only thing I would have done differently was leave the number row black as well.

I tried that for symmetry's sake, but then the "white" area looked too small and constricted.
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Offline Turbo Slaab

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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 19 January 2013, 11:03:44 »
Quote from: jkercado on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:28:09
Quote from: Turbo Slaab on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:27:00
Looks good man! The only thing I would have done differently was leave the number row black as well.

I tried that for symmetry's sake, but then the "white" area looked too small and constricted.

Ahh. Yeah, it is a pretty big board. Looks good none-the-less.
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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 19 January 2013, 11:12:18 »
Thanks!
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Offline iri

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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #7 on: Sat, 19 January 2013, 11:32:43 »
like this white on black
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Offline bazemk1979

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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #8 on: Sat, 19 January 2013, 19:08:24 »
LOL tuxedo style, like a sir!!!

Here are mein tuxedos
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Offline Vintage

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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #9 on: Sat, 19 January 2013, 19:27:24 »
The blue mods are favorite.

Nice pics btw! ;D
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Offline sleepy916

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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 23 January 2013, 15:39:39 »
Those Industrial Model Ms..... ;D
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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #11 on: Wed, 23 January 2013, 19:16:04 »
I like blue modifiers myself.

That 'tuxedo' look is nice.

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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #12 on: Wed, 23 January 2013, 20:11:14 »
One of these days I'm going to break down and reproduce the 'inverse tuxedo' I did. Used a beige shell with the genuine IBM white-on-blacks, black spacebar, beige tricolor modifiers, and a clearshell F-row. (Had too many parts boards at the time.) I shudder to think what it would cost these days.
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Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
« Reply #13 on: Wed, 23 January 2013, 22:24:28 »
grey suited up.


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