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I've had this case for a while, but I got a keycap set to match the other day. Wanted to do a small comparison between these Cherry dyesubs on the NCR board and regular Cherry dyesubs, since I've had a bunch of people ask me about the differences.

First some pictures of the board itself with its keycaps on :







Now some comparison pictures.. (apologies for the dusty keycaps)

On the NCR, the keycap colours are noticeably different. The modifiers are a middle grey rather than a light grey/beige, and the alphas are a light grey rather than white. The legends are also very dark grey instead of black (the 3100SAU keycaps pictured have slightly faded legends). And, most noticeably, the NCR keycaps have visibly different legends which I've highlighted and compared to a G81-3116SDU with regular legends.

Good comparison photekq! And I can finally see what color my NCR case should have.

So what's your favorite keycap here?

seebart wrote: ↑So what's your favorite keycap here?

The regular Cherry dyesubs on the G81-3116SDU/G81-3100SAU I think

The NCRs more grey colours look too bland..

photekq wrote: ↑The NCRs more grey colours look too bland..

Not if you have super yellow ones like me.

Some Germans might giggle reading "HAU SAU SAU" ^^

Beautiful keyboard, sir.

t!ng wrote: ↑Some Germans might giggle reading "HAU SAU SAU" ^^

Beautiful keyboard, sir.

that's true.

Have you seen my SAU? Dann HAU....

seebart wrote: ↑ Not if you have super yellow ones like me.

These ones are PBT.. They don't yellow (unfortunately in this case)

I love a good sparkly set of PBTs, even on a yellowed case. The face is wrinkly but the smile survives.

Muirium wrote: ↑I love a good sparkly set of PBTs, even on a yellowed case. The face is wrinkly but the smile survives.

Good photos, good stuff

Beautiful board and great pics!

I had yellow caps
its legends is brown, not black...

Beautiful board. The '" keycap on the NCR looks more "correct" to me.

I like the legend on the NCR one, but I like the colour of the 3100SAU one.

Oh, there is only one regular dyesub keyboard I've seen with the same legends as the NCR, and that's the G81-3000SAA. Same ", same pgup/pgdn, same numpad arrows.

photekq wrote: ↑Oh, there is only one regular dyesub keyboard I've seen with the same legends as the NCR, and that's the G81-3000SAA. Same ", same pgup/pgdn, same numpad arrows.

Holy crap, that board has beautiful keycaps!

wlhlm wrote: ↑Holy crap, that board has beautiful keycaps!

Shame it's too rare for any of us to attain

Personally, I still think Czech and Cyrillic dyesubs are prettier..

photekq wrote: ↑

wlhlm wrote: ↑Holy crap, that board has beautiful keycaps!

Shame it's too rare for any of us to attain

How do you get it? Can you show me?

quochung1989 wrote: ↑How do you get it? Can you show me?

I don't believe that he can! All this cherry keycap madness. It's even gotten to me...

Those are mostly Alps seebart! What are those APL caps, though? I'm intrigued!

My drawer full of caps is larger and much less organised. Sadly free of any APL, though. Git!

scottc wrote: ↑Those are mostly Alps seebart! What are those APL caps, though? I'm intrigued!

of course those are mostly Alps. You know me. Those are these engraved APL caps:
I do actually own some other nice cherry caps. Nothing special though.