Wyse PCE Terminal Keyboard - Now With Less Human Grime!
- Compgeke
- Location: Fairfield, California, USA
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M 1391401
- Main mouse: Coolermaster Recon
- Favorite switch: IBM Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0040
Picked this up at the same time as the 85 but this one's a fair bit dirtier but at least complete.
As it was when I got it:
Yeah, dead bugs are NEVER a good sign.
Working on cleaning it up:
Cleaned up plate:
I could've done better but this was good enough compared to starting. There's also a bit of rust as well.
Most of the keycaps back on:
Had to go before I could finished, took a quick picture. Currently sitting in a starbucks posting this.
As for the keycaps themselves, they're double-shot ABS in DCS profile as marked inside the caps. I assume they're made by Signature Plastics because of this, although I suppose it's possible that they weren't as the case was made by Loong Sheng.
I'll post a picture of it back in one piece tomorrow, I won't have any light when I get home and I still only have a zoom lens to use.
As it was when I got it:
Yeah, dead bugs are NEVER a good sign.
Working on cleaning it up:
Cleaned up plate:
I could've done better but this was good enough compared to starting. There's also a bit of rust as well.
Most of the keycaps back on:
Had to go before I could finished, took a quick picture. Currently sitting in a starbucks posting this.
As for the keycaps themselves, they're double-shot ABS in DCS profile as marked inside the caps. I assume they're made by Signature Plastics because of this, although I suppose it's possible that they weren't as the case was made by Loong Sheng.
I'll post a picture of it back in one piece tomorrow, I won't have any light when I get home and I still only have a zoom lens to use.
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- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: KBC Poker MX Red
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Revolution
- Favorite switch: MX Red
- DT Pro Member: -
GROSS!
Spoiler:
- dorkvader
- Main keyboard: Unicomp
- Main mouse: CST 1550
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring over Capacitave. (Model F)
- DT Pro Member: -
wyse keycaps were made by comptec, who was bought out by SP when SP started.
http://www.solutionsinplastic.com/about_history.html
Such a nice keyboard!
http://www.solutionsinplastic.com/about_history.html
Such a nice keyboard!
- Hypersphere
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: Silenced & Lubed HHKB (Black)
- Main mouse: Logitech G403
- Favorite switch: Topre 45/55g Silenced; Various Alps; IBM Model F
- DT Pro Member: 0038
@compgeke: I suppose that dead bugs would be better than live ones! In any event, I like Wyse keyboards. I have a few that are on my waiting list for a good cleaning (and possibly a paint job) before installing Soarer's Wyse converter.
- Redmaus
- Gotta start somewhere
- Location: Near Dallas, Texas
- Main keyboard: Unsaver | 3276 | Kingsaver
- Main mouse: Kensington Slimblade
- Favorite switch: Capacitative Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
What if you opened it and like 20 cockroaches crawled out
- Compgeke
- Location: Fairfield, California, USA
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M 1391401
- Main mouse: Coolermaster Recon
- Favorite switch: IBM Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0040
That would be just a tad odd. The keyboard was bought from a roach-free thrift store and apparently they had it for over a year. Those would've been some damn tough ones.
- Redmaus
- Gotta start somewhere
- Location: Near Dallas, Texas
- Main keyboard: Unsaver | 3276 | Kingsaver
- Main mouse: Kensington Slimblade
- Favorite switch: Capacitative Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
Apparently roaches can survive a nuclear holocaust so you never know...
- Redmaus
- Gotta start somewhere
- Location: Near Dallas, Texas
- Main keyboard: Unsaver | 3276 | Kingsaver
- Main mouse: Kensington Slimblade
- Favorite switch: Capacitative Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
Oh no, they're everywhere!
- Redmaus
- Gotta start somewhere
- Location: Near Dallas, Texas
- Main keyboard: Unsaver | 3276 | Kingsaver
- Main mouse: Kensington Slimblade
- Favorite switch: Capacitative Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
Side note, Muirium, which layout do you type on? Dvorak or qwerty?
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Just crappy Qwerty. I've been meaning to switch to Colemak for a while, but the adaptation process is a bit too gruelling for me to keep it up. Thing is, I need to learn to touch type correctly too. I whiz around with only 8 fingers, at best, in Qwerty, through years of untrained habit. I could definitely type better, but getting there is the crux.
- Redmaus
- Gotta start somewhere
- Location: Near Dallas, Texas
- Main keyboard: Unsaver | 3276 | Kingsaver
- Main mouse: Kensington Slimblade
- Favorite switch: Capacitative Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
Whats your WPM? Mine is about 60 tops unfortunately.
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- Location: Wisconsin, USA
- Main keyboard: Model F Unsaver
- Main mouse: A turd logitech wireless mouse
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring/Blue Alps/Beam spring
compgekes wpm is approximately 112 when tested in 10fastfingers though realistically he hovers around 90. Sincerely, Your friendly neighborhood stalker.
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
80. I used to be 60 or less on chiclet rubberdomes before I went mech. And I've got spare fingers here so I know I can do better…
- Redmaus
- Gotta start somewhere
- Location: Near Dallas, Texas
- Main keyboard: Unsaver | 3276 | Kingsaver
- Main mouse: Kensington Slimblade
- Favorite switch: Capacitative Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
Ah. I would be fine with 80. I wonder when everybody will switch to dvorak?