Great/Interesting Finds

[alh84001]

For me it's normal to use it with the left hand. Although, as I got more ambidextrous with time, there was a period when I used the right hand instead.

[guk]

Dib on the 5.7k!

Please.

[photekq]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/CHERRY-G80-1800H ... Sw2GlXIKrH

Old MX clears. Seems to be unused, but oddly yellowed.

[Dra]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/CHERRY-G80-1800H ... Sw2GlXIKrH

Old MX clears. Seems to be unused, but oddly yellowed.

Seller claims it's due to smoke exposure, not sure how true that is though

[Dra]

Also on topic, Plasti-dipped blue Chicony with MX Blues and horribly yellowed caps
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Mechanische-Tast ... 2103843736

AEK II 'OH GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CASE' edition
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Mechanische-Tast ... 2103984624

G80-11800 that might be worth looking into if you want to harvest those switches/like the trackball combo, after all it's got free shipping
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Mechanische-Tast ... 2103996922

[seebart]

Haha I'm wondering which color is more horrible Dra? The blue Chicony or cheesy yellow AEK2 ?

[photekq]

AEK II 'OH GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CASE' edition

[Dra]

which color is more horrible?

The real question is which one is easier to get rid of, plastidip or the color of that 'salmon alps' colored case

[jerue]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/CHERRY-G80-1800H ... Sw2GlXIKrH

Old MX clears. Seems to be unused, but oddly yellowed.

Seller claims it's due to smoke exposure, not sure how true that is though

Based on some of the photos of where the keyboards are stored I wouldn't be surprised...

Anyways, did anyone here win this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131793706141

I was watching it, but on the off chance it was White Alps or some other switch didn't want to spend the $$ on nothing. That particular one should be Blue Alps.

[Dra]

G81 HBD, some keys seem pretty worn
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-G81-1000- ... 1574239672

[tentator]

this seems interesting: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Nixdorf-Computer ... 1840416300
otherwise the usual guy with nixies doesn't seem to give it up for any reasonable price any more..

[Phenix]

How much was the last reasonable price?

typos due to my touch screen are possible

[Nuum]

I would not be sure at all that this has Nixdorf blacks.

[iamacicada]

I'm pretty sure it comes with Nixdorf blacks. Someone just bought it though.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/SIEMENS-NIXDORF- ... fresh=true

[gogusrl]

Wodan got one from the same seller with regular/vintage mx blacks so it's not 100%.

[Nuum]

I got mine from bruno_muc as well and it has proper Nixdorf blacks. THis was when he sold them for much less.

[Prelim]

thanks @Dra for my dibs request

[Dra]

pshh don't blow our cover

[seebart]

I'm pretty sure it comes with Nixdorf blacks. Someone just bought it though.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/SIEMENS-NIXDORF- ... fresh=true

HAHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA it's that greeeeeeeeeeedy bruno_muc dude again, he told me he had a stack of the Nixdorf Softkeys boards and was looking to maaaaxxx his GREEEEDBAY profits. MEH. Pathetic chump.

I'm suprised he's still selling them for 250, why not go for 520. HAHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAA.

[Abstractions]

Not keyboard but: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-5-Macint ... Sw~oFXJgN2

"Build a fort"

[seebart]

That's gonna be some "fort". Apple fort.

[quochung1989]

I'm pretty sure it comes with Nixdorf blacks. Someone just bought it though.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/SIEMENS-NIXDORF- ... fresh=true

[Redmaus]

I like that seller almost makes me want to buy the listing and make a keyboard protection fort

[emdude]

I wonder if the cases are large enough to store keyboards.

[tentator]

I'm pretty sure it comes with Nixdorf blacks. Someone just bought it though.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/SIEMENS-NIXDORF- ... fresh=true

HAHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA it's that greeeeeeeeeeedy bruno_muc dude again, he told me he had a stack of the Nixdorf Softkeys boards and was looking to maaaaxxx his GREEEEDBAY profits. MEH. Pathetic chump.

I'm suprised he's still selling them for 250, why not go for 520. HAHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAA.

Can't believe it! I'd not pay more than 70-80 and love the caps!

[shreebles]

I'm pretty sure it comes with Nixdorf blacks. Someone just bought it though.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/SIEMENS-NIXDORF- ... fresh=true

HAHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA it's that greeeeeeeeeeedy bruno_muc dude again, he told me he had a stack of the Nixdorf Softkeys boards and was looking to maaaaxxx his GREEEEDBAY profits. MEH. Pathetic chump.

I'm suprised he's still selling them for 250, why not go for 520. HAHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAA.

I'm just glad I bought one from the guy when he didn't know what he was selling.
Luckily for another member of this forum, I didn't keep the Nixies after all.

Can't believe it! I'd not pay more than 70-80 and love the caps!

I still have the caps, mine are slightly more yellowed, though. But I cleaned them already. Are you interested?

PS: If anyone wants the case and PCB they can have it for the cost of shipping.

[hypkx]

I'm just glad I bought one from the guy when he didn't know what he was selling.
Luckily for another member of this forum, I didn't keep the Nixies after all.

One of the two switches is allready soldered to one of my keyboards the other nixdorf switch is for my new keyboard with normal vintage black switches and a Satan GH60 PCB (I just wait for the winkeyless plate from the leandreN groupbuy).

[shreebles]

I'm just glad I bought one from the guy when he didn't know what he was selling.
Luckily for another member of this forum, I didn't keep the Nixies after all.

One of the two switches is allready soldered to one of my keyboards the other nixdorf switch is for my new keyboard with normal vintage black switches and a Satan GH60 PCB (I just wait for the winkeyless plate from the leandreN groupbuy).

Actually those were not from the same board.
Someone else got all of the Nixies from the Siemens Softkeys I took apart.

[chzel]

[tentator]

Haha I see!!
Actually it's interesting..
What I did is grasp the keycaps only, since I was not able to get the whole keyboard at reasonable prices and because I was doing a "steampunk" kind of project based on cherry mx whites (actually not sure those nixie switches how they compare and if they are tactile after all)..
Now my opinion is that those double shots are really fantastic!! I think they put some great effort even into making them sound great.. best thock sound ever so far! chyrios should test them and make a video of them! It's just a huge pity there is no Ansi layout...
You see it here:

tent-steampunk-boardz.jpg (666.54 KiB) Viewed 5064 times

And maybe you have some keys that fit better the left shift and mods in your variant?

And yes it has a trackpoint up there (I fixed it's height and put a red cap on it now)! It's really great to type on.. kind of relaxing..

EDIT: I'm tempted tu mod the original spacebar by chopping one end out and glue the end part back.. it's anyways going to be frankenstein-looking so...

EDIT2: thanks to matt3o for the brownfoxish layout.. personally I'd probably change two things to the layout: split the backspace in two, one for backspace and one for delete or even more radical: swap backspace function below to the \| key and having at row 5 \| and delete keys.. I could actually even thing of having FN key in capslock and either remove FN key at the bottom right at all optionally..