hi!

[fishcola]

Hello! I'm yet another long-time lurker of GH, DT, and /r/mk. I've used a lot of Model M's for most of my life, and have owned my first cherry keyboard (CODE TKL with greens) for approx. a year and a half.... I'm hoping to learn more about keycap profiles and materials, while looking at other people's setups.. I'm here to learn i guess.

Random thoughts, I use alot of unix/linuxes, but I'm not a OS troll. I definitely want to own a high quality 1.75u ctrl key...that's probably my keyboard unicorn

Has anyone ever fallen in love with a rubber dome keyboard? Sacrelige, i know, but fwiw, IBM made a keyboard for its late '90s Aptiva desktops called the kb7993, and I loved it!

[rowdy]

Welcome to Geekhack!

BS and MX greens - most excellent

The KB7993 looks like an IBM keyboard we had at work for a while.  We had a white one and a couple of black ones.  I actually "inherited" the white one, and I think the black ones are still lying around somewhere.  They were quite good, but didn't pass the test of time, unfortunately.

OTOH there is another IBM rubber dome keyboard, black, similar design but a larger case, that I managed to find somewhere that was fantastic!  Even after several years of punishing use it still felt great.  I even managed to find a NIB (or at least new in plastic bag) one that I still have somewhere, although dust and other particles have found their way into the bag.

[demik]

Sup

[fishcola]

Welcome to Geekhack!

BS and MX greens - most excellent

The KB7993 looks like an IBM keyboard we had at work for a while.  We had a white one and a couple of black ones.  I actually "inherited" the white one, and I think the black ones are still lying around somewhere.  They were quite good, but didn't pass the test of time, unfortunately.

OTOH there is another IBM rubber dome keyboard, black, similar design but a larger case, that I managed to find somewhere that was fantastic!  Even after several years of punishing use it still felt great.  I even managed to find a NIB (or at least new in plastic bag) one that I still have somewhere, although dust and other particles have found their way into the bag.

thanks for the welcome! i take it you like BS and greens as well? Heh, tbh I loathed my greens until a few months of breaking them in... now I'm in love! Now that I'm used to 80cn switches, I'm looking forward to trying tactile greys.

If you can recall, do you think that the keycaps on the 7993 or your other rubber dome ibm kb have non-abs keycaps? Part of what I loved about the 7993 were the keycaps' texture... I'm convinced they weren't ABS.

[beehatch]

hi

[fishcola]

Sup

Sup

man, don't be down for no responses! sup is a generic thing to say! sup right back at you!

[demik]

ha, i was just kidding!

[rowdy]

Welcome to Geekhack!

BS and MX greens - most excellent

The KB7993 looks like an IBM keyboard we had at work for a while.  We had a white one and a couple of black ones.  I actually "inherited" the white one, and I think the black ones are still lying around somewhere.  They were quite good, but didn't pass the test of time, unfortunately.

OTOH there is another IBM rubber dome keyboard, black, similar design but a larger case, that I managed to find somewhere that was fantastic!  Even after several years of punishing use it still felt great.  I even managed to find a NIB (or at least new in plastic bag) one that I still have somewhere, although dust and other particles have found their way into the bag.

thanks for the welcome! i take it you like BS and greens as well? Heh, tbh I loathed my greens until a few months of breaking them in... now I'm in love! Now that I'm used to 80cn switches, I'm looking forward to trying tactile greys.

If you can recall, do you think that the keycaps on the 7993 or your other rubber dome ibm kb have non-abs keycaps? Part of what I loved about the 7993 were the keycaps' texture... I'm convinced they weren't ABS.

Yep - BS is favourite, followed by MX greens (with 45g Topre oscillating around as a stand-in replacement when I need a quieter keyboard).

I have no idea what the keycaps were made of, But I seem to recall a certain amount of shine.  Not as much as you'd expect from ABS, but much more than you'd expect from PBT.  So maybe some other sort of plastic perhaps.