$9.99 Cherry RS-6700

[SCTony]

CHERRY RS-6700 USB KEYBOARD W/Smart CARD READER - BIN: $9.99 + free shipping
More than 10 available.

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[wellington1869]

possibly rubber dome: http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=6699&highlight=RS-6700

but cheap source of nice looking keys.  do these cherry boards generally have decent keys? (ie, thick plastic and/or double shot or dye sub?) (ripster?)

[rdh]

CHERRY RS-6700 USB KEYBOARD W/Smart CARD READER - BIN: $9.99 + free shipping

Funny, the pic of the back of the keyboard has a readable view of the label, but the closeup shot of the label itself is so blurry it's not readable at all.

possibly rubber dome: http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=6699&highlight=RS-6700

but cheap source of nice looking keys.  do these cherry boards generally have decent keys? (ie, thick plastic and/or double shot or dye sub?) (ripster?)

It sez in the GH wiki that this is indeed a rubber dome board.  That page goes on to say (not entirely clearly) that G83 caps might work on a G81 (MY switch) but not G80 (MX switch) board.  

I believe the "L" in the model number's "LPAUS" means the key caps are laser-etched.  The wiki page that describes the model numbers in detail is more specific about the G80 and G81 boards than the G83's.

[wellington1869]

good point, cherry's rubber dome keys might not fit cherry's mechanical keys...

[wellington1869]

Other thing that is puzzling is why they make them so squat.  .

this was actually a problem on the 11800 cherry brown board I had, where if you slide your fingers fast between the rows, you could sometimes "catch" your fingertip on the bottom of a key.  It was quite annoying.

[Hak Foo]

I'd be interested if someone modded it to be a stand-alone card reader to stick beside your favourite board.