Marquardt Military Keyboard 7069.3111

Daniel · 30 Nov 2012, 23:16

I recently got a Marquardt keyboard from the HEROS System of the German Bundeswehr and wanted to share some pictures with you.

The build quality is really good. To casing is like 6mm thick. 8)

The keys are double shot and platemounted.

I have made some detailed pictures of the PCB components as well. Just ask, if you're interested in them...

Daniel · 30 Nov 2012, 23:21

More pictures

7bit · 30 Nov 2012, 23:36

LOL! We had not this "I found a HEROS System keyboard"-post for quite a while.

You can do us a great fevor and write a wiki article and add all your photos!

Thanks!

rodtang · 30 Nov 2012, 23:38

If anyone wants one of these they is a bunch of them here:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/ALU-Aluminium-Ta ... 1057855871

kbdfr · 01 Dec 2012, 07:03

rodtang wrote:If anyone wants one of these they is a bunch of them here:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/ALU-Aluminium-Ta ... 1057855871

Price there is 24,95€ + shipping (5,90€, Germany only).

You can buy them there for 15,90€, German shipping included. The seller still has 8 of them in this listing, but I suppose he might have even more.

By the way, the switches are Marquardt switches, and the keycaps are (thin) Cherry MX compatible doubleshots.

I would offer to proxy, but really have no time to handle this at the moment. Anyone else?

rindorbrot · 01 Dec 2012, 11:19

Is it possible to use the case from this one for a G80-3000 PCB?

Ascaii · 01 Dec 2012, 11:22

rindorbrot wrote:Is it possible to use the case from this one for a G80-3000 PCB?

Buy one, try it? Its 16€...

Halverson · 01 Dec 2012, 11:27

For 16€ I do want, but im way over in Canada. Would anyone in Germany know how much something like this would cost to ship there? If I could find a proxy.

rindorbrot · 01 Dec 2012, 11:28

Ascaii wrote:Buy one, try it? Its 16€...

Yes, maybe I'll do that. But I thought I ask first, maybe someone has already tried it.

Half-Saint · 01 Dec 2012, 13:51

kbdfr wrote:You can buy them there for 15,90€, German shipping included. The seller still has 8 of them in this listing, but I suppose he might have even more.

By the way, the switches are Marquardt switches, and the keycaps are (thin) Cherry MX compatible doubleshots.

I would offer to proxy, but really have no time to handle this at the moment. Anyone else?

Don't tempt me, please!

Daniel Beardsmore · 01 Dec 2012, 18:35

Marquardt switches? (Which I am led to believe are all linear)

No switch pictures above :P

Daniel Beardsmore · 01 Dec 2012, 18:36

Actually if you do have Marquardt switches, you could disassemble one for the wiki:

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Marquardt_switch

No pictures there of the internals.

Ascaii · 01 Dec 2012, 21:39

shipping overseas will cost 40€ minimum

Halverson · 01 Dec 2012, 22:02

Ascaii wrote:shipping overseas will cost 40€ minimum

Ah ya, bit too much. Oh well.

Daniel · 02 Dec 2012, 19:59

7bit wrote:You can do us a great fevor and write a wiki article and add all your photos!

Done: http://deskthority.net/wiki/Marquardt_M ... _7069.3111

Daniel Beardsmore wrote:Actually if you do have Marquardt switches, you could disassemble one for the wiki:

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Marquardt_switch

No pictures there of the internals.

This has been done before: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=5395.0
I sent lam47 a message, and asked if I could add his pictures to the wiki.

I will add some pictures to the miniergo wiki article as well. Including dissassembly pictures...

Daniel Beardsmore · 02 Dec 2012, 20:28

That's assuming that both have the exact same switch.

Ascaii · 02 Dec 2012, 20:41

Daniel Beardsmore wrote:That's assuming that both have the exact same switch.

No assumption there....they both have the same switch, ive owned and typed on both.

hoggy · 02 Dec 2012, 22:08

It's such a shame that they feel awful, as the same keyboards with cherry switches would be fantastic

Icarium · 04 Dec 2012, 08:14

I don't know the layout is still meh. But indeed if you don't care about portability the build quality is excellent.

aegiap · 07 Dec 2012, 22:52

kbdfr wrote:
rodtang wrote:If anyone wants one of these they is a bunch of them here:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/ALU-Aluminium-Ta ... 1057855871
Price there is 24,95€ + shipping (5,90€, Germany only).

You can buy them there for 15,90€, German shipping included. The seller still has 8 of them in this listing, but I suppose he might have even more.

By the way, the switches are Marquardt switches, and the keycaps are (thin) Cherry MX compatible doubleshots.

I would offer to proxy, but really have no time to handle this at the moment. Anyone else?

Cherry MX compatible doubleshot but they ship only in germany. Really sad they don't ship to France next door :-/

Ascaii · 07 Dec 2012, 23:01

If you pay for it, you have them ship it to me and ill send it to france.

aegiap · 08 Dec 2012, 12:17

Ascaii wrote:If you pay for it, you have them ship it to me and ill send it to france.

Thank you for the proxy offer but I must decline. December is already too heavy for the wallet. ^_^

Daniel · 08 Dec 2012, 20:19

Just finished my adapter. It's functional - not more, not less

Icarium · 13 Dec 2012, 23:20

But the mouse uses the old serial port protocol, that will be a bit more work.