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Offline intelli78

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SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:13:59 »
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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:15:00 »
I kinda want it.
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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:16:45 »
It looks like someone shoved a keytronic rubber dome into an SSK shell
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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:19:43 »
Hmm good point. Those keycaps look suspect. (IDK shiz about BS boards)
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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:33:38 »
Quote from: ComradeSniper on Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:16:45
It looks like someone shoved a keytronic rubber dome into an SSK shell

Quote from: scubaste on Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:19:43
Hmm good point. Those keycaps look suspect. (IDK shiz about BS boards)

Note the Windows keys. This has to be a scam.
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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:39:38 »
I asked Unicomp if they still had those enter keys, I wanted to put one on my SSK. Answer was no  :-[. But there is something really dodgy about this thing. From the cut out SDL port with the wire just coming out loose to the extra keys that shouldn't be. Not to mention the Potato Photos.
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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 18:25:43 »
Quote from: fanpeople on Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:39:38
I asked Unicomp if they still had those enter keys, I wanted to put one on my SSK.

I have had a couple of IBM typewriters, and it seems like there may have been a bigass Enter on one of them.

I will have to search for that jar of caps .....

Wait! The Model F AT has a bigass Enter, doesn't it?

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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #7 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 19:21:17 »
It's obviously a modded piece of crap that someone is trying to sell for 100x its worth. The windows keys, the weird cable that is taking up the place of a rectangular SDL connector, the bigass enter. I propose we make an offer of $1 shipped just to see what is actually inside.
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Offline E TwentyNine

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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #8 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 20:11:53 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 08 November 2014, 18:25:43
I have had a couple of IBM typewriters, and it seems like there may have been a bigass Enter on one of them.

I will have to search for that jar of caps .....

Wait! The Model F AT has a bigass Enter, doesn't it?

Right on both counts, however both the AT and the typewriters have the legend left justified on Enter.

This looks like a Keytronic (which does have "Enter" centered and same dimensions as an M key layout) assembly cut up and put into an SSK case.
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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #9 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 20:31:31 »
Quote from: E TwentyNine on Sat, 08 November 2014, 20:11:53

the typewriters have the legend left justified on Enter.


My bigass typewriter has the primary legend (black) "C Rtn"
and secondary legend (blue) "Ind Clr"
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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.
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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #10 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 20:52:22 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 08 November 2014, 20:31:31
Quote from: E TwentyNine on Sat, 08 November 2014, 20:11:53

the typewriters have the legend left justified on Enter.


My bigass typewriter has the primary legend (black) "C Rtn"
and secondary legend (blue) "Ind Clr"

...left justified, correct?   We have seen a M once with a BAE that only had the single line legend, still left justified.
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Offline fanpeople

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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #11 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 21:14:47 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 08 November 2014, 18:25:43
Quote from: fanpeople on Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:39:38
I asked Unicomp if they still had those enter keys, I wanted to put one on my SSK.


I have had a couple of IBM typewriters, and it seems like there may have been a bigass Enter on one of them




That would be good, i think it was originally a euro layout thing sorry i am not 100%  with what this is called i think its ISO is it (they remind me of primary school computers)

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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #12 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 21:27:50 »
Quote from: Jotokun on Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:33:38
Quote from: ComradeSniper on Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:16:45
It looks like someone shoved a keytronic rubber dome into an SSK shell

Quote from: scubaste on Sat, 08 November 2014, 17:19:43
Hmm good point. Those keycaps look suspect. (IDK shiz about BS boards)

Note the Windows keys. This has to be a scam.

so in theory you could cut down a unicomp 104, add an enter key from a wheelwriter and roll up the membrane to create this, but the ctrl keys on this are 1.25x, therefore too small. Plus the font is wrong, etc.

Check out the hole where the controller used to be!
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Offline intelli78

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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #13 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 22:38:04 »
Well, someone bought it.
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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #14 on: Sat, 08 November 2014, 23:11:42 »
Someone's probably going to be disappointed.
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Re: SSK with bigass enter and 1.25x mods?
« Reply #15 on: Sun, 09 November 2014, 00:01:02 »
Quote from: ComradeSniper on Sat, 08 November 2014, 23:11:42
Someone's probably going to be disappointed.

Nah, he's going to praise his SSK for being...

1) only slightly heavier than a normal keyboard
2) quieter than a normal buckling spring
3) having windows keys
4) not having a weird and outdated SDL cable connector

Anyone wants to buy my super silent Model M with 45g springs and winkeys? Smooth linear feel, can use Cherry MX keycaps. USB plug and play! I think I'll offer it for the price of $200.



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