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Offline Philister

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Spot the mistake
« on: Tue, 28 February 2017, 12:58:52 »
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Is this a known issue with Compaq (and also Cherry?) G80-11800/11801 boards? It's really rather irritating...

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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 28 February 2017, 13:11:34 »
The keys are laid out then lasered for the printing so I don't think it's unheard of for something like that to happen.
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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 28 February 2017, 14:38:04 »
Yea your u a o keys have funny little marks over them and your keys are all over the place like the z key...

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Offline Philister

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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 28 February 2017, 14:49:02 »
Er no, that's the way God intended... As J. Q. no doubt discerned correctly, what worries me is the tactile bump on the K key instead of J.

Offline jcoffin1981

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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 28 February 2017, 16:18:13 »
This is some foreign layout and I'm not sure what it's called.  You can see the A and the O with the two dots over it.
The bumps may be correct for the home row for that board.
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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 28 February 2017, 17:04:03 »
That looks annoying AF!  >:D



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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 28 February 2017, 17:11:17 »
So the only actual mistake i see is the home row dot is on the wrong key (k instead of J)? is that what you mean?

edit: i see you mentioned it already. yeah thats definitely irritating.
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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 28 February 2017, 18:17:45 »
I don't have this keyboard any more:



The eejits put two backslashes on the same keyboard, one on each side. The trouble is, one of them is where a PC has backslash, so I'd press what I thought was \ (in fact, `), get `, look down at the keyboard to wonder what I did wrong, and see a key that really does say \ — so why is it typing `? Oh right, I need the other \ key.

Since I was switching between Mac OS and Windows, it drove me mad having the key mislabelled, so (as you can see) I carved out half of \ with a knife to make it vaguely resemble what that key does in Mac OS. That was the NMB version, with the screw-up.
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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 28 February 2017, 19:04:13 »
Its ISO?
     

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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 01 March 2017, 00:34:41 »
It's just a QWERTZ keyboard?

Probably German, but i don't know enough about QWERTZ to tell you specifically, German is just the most common one that I know of.
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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 01 March 2017, 02:26:55 »
It's the normal German QWERTZ layout, but the home-row mark is on K rather than J, as it normally is—e.g.:



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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #11 on: Wed, 01 March 2017, 12:15:42 »
it is just an normal Geman board (probably an cherry, guessing LRNDE) - so its ISO-DE, lasered caps.


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Offline Findecanor

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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #12 on: Wed, 01 March 2017, 12:32:12 »
There is a dot on the K key when it should have been on the J key. That took me a while to spot, because I usually don't care about them.

BTW, it is believed that if a Cherry G80-11800 has homing dots instead of homing bars then the keycaps should be thick PBT. Is this true for this keyboard?
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Offline Philister

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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #13 on: Wed, 01 March 2017, 13:43:31 »
Yes, they do indeed look extra thick, just like the person was who is responsible for putting the tactile bump on the wrong keycap!

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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #14 on: Mon, 06 March 2017, 02:11:45 »
Yes, they do indeed look extra thick, just like the person was who is responsible for putting the tactile bump on the wrong keycap!

LOL. It couldn't have been intentional; different fingers would be on the marks. It makes no sense. Then again, Donald Trump just became president, so sense-making may be a thing of the past  :?O
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Re: Spot the mistake
« Reply #15 on: Mon, 06 March 2017, 07:47:22 »
It actually makes sense because people are not that idiots and smart enough to hate Clintons hehehe.