Gift from dad

[derzemel]

My dad lives in Italy and I have been telling him about my new found passion. A few days ago I got a box from him with some stuff:



 

The ISO WYSEs are cherry MX Black... SMOOTH black... Vintage black 

I now have some of switches for a TKL Project I am working on

The IBM, sadly is a rubber dome, but in a normal Model M case. I plan to open it to see if there are usable parts.

I cleaned the Gray WYSE and I am planning to use Soarer's Converter on it. I hope it works with ISO. If it works, then I'll keep it as is and I'll find some vintage Blacks somewhere else

I am still not convinced that I should put in the effort to retrobright the yellowed one. I also has some very shiny caps.
Also, the yellowed had an EM shield inside it which I cleaned and moved to the gray one:



Here are some pictures with the cleaned gray one:

[absyrd]

Daddy coming through! How did he know what was good to send and not to just ship you a ton of rubber domes???

[henz]

Daddy coming through! How did he know what was good to send and not to just ship you a ton of rubber domes???

real men knows what mechanical means

[katushkin]

That WYSE board looks really nice and clean. Great find from dad!

[derzemel]

Daddy coming through! How did he know what was good to send and not to just ship you a ton of rubber domes???

Well, we talked a bit and I explained what Cherry MX is and how Model Ms look. I then showed him a WYSE pc that was for sale on Kijiji.it and now i have these

[CPTBadAss]

That's a great present

[vivalarevolución]

You can convert that rubber dome Model M into a buckling spring, if you want.  Just get some springs and regular Model M keycaps that can house the springs (the rubber dome keycaps cannot), and you are good to go.  I've done it before.

[tp4tissue]

W530...   Laptop of the Pr0zz

[Snowdog993]

You can convert that rubber dome Model M into a buckling spring, if you want.  Just get some springs and regular Model M keycaps that can house the springs (the rubber dome keycaps cannot), and you are good to go.  I've done it before.

That's a pretty good idea.  One idea I was thinking was just throwing a terminal internals into the chassis.  Hook up the ribbons, done! That would work too.

[derzemel]

You can convert that rubber dome Model M into a buckling spring, if you want.  Just get some springs and regular Model M keycaps that can house the springs (the rubber dome keycaps cannot), and you are good to go.  I've done it before.

Yes, I was thinking too to source some Model M Keycaps + springs with flippers and throw away the rubber domes

W530...   Laptop of the Pr0zz

Yes, that thing is a beast and I love it, but it also weighs almost 3kg + 1 kg the charger

[Blaise170]

W530...   Laptop of the Pr0zz

I'm more interested in the bottle. 

[hwood34]

awesome your dad actually knew what to pick up )

[vivalarevolución]

You can convert that rubber dome Model M into a buckling spring, if you want.  Just get some springs and regular Model M keycaps that can house the springs (the rubber dome keycaps cannot), and you are good to go.  I've done it before.

Yes, I was thinking too to source some Model M Keycaps + springs with flippers and throw away the rubber domes

W530...   Laptop of the Pr0zz

Yes, that thing is a beast and I love it, but it also weighs almost 3kg + 1 kg the charger

I've got some springs and flippers, if you want them.  I am not sure how many exactly, but it might be enough for a Model M.  Send me a PM if you are interested.