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Northgate Omnikey Evolution, good condition, $114 shipped
« on: Wed, 29 July 2015, 19:26:42 »
These are pretty rare... I'd buy it myself if I had the dough right now.
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Re: Northgate Omnikey Evolution, good condition, $114 shipped
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 29 July 2015, 20:07:59 »
Track pad, bigass Enter, and Windows keys, all in one. What more do you want?
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Re: Northgate Omnikey Evolution, good condition, $114 shipped
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 29 July 2015, 20:11:05 »
What kind of switches are in that monster?
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Re: Northgate Omnikey Evolution, good condition, $114 shipped
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 30 July 2015, 02:18:31 »
Alps Whites, I imagine
But the Northgate's massive build quality
Is the real draw,
Plus this ergo version's rarity.

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Re: Northgate Omnikey Evolution, good condition, $114 shipped
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 30 July 2015, 09:40:32 »
Someone bought it this morning. Was it one of you fellow GH'ers?

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Re: Northgate Omnikey Evolution, good condition, $114 shipped
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 30 July 2015, 11:02:12 »
Dang, I just bought a new in box Evolution for $250, but I totally would have gone for that one and maybe have done some switch transplantation on it. Saw it too late!

The cool thing about split space bars is that you can easily cut one trace and run wires back to the delete key (or whatever other key) to add erase ease functionality even if the original board did not support it.

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Re: Northgate Omnikey Evolution, good condition, $114 shipped
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 31 July 2015, 03:03:26 »
Well, all I can do is tell you about 'em—I can't make you buy 'em.  :?)
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