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Can you post pictures of your keyboard? Nothing special, i would just like to see if it compares to the image i have in my head of what this keyboard looked like. I'm about 80% sure the board i owned had a curved backplate. Like i said earlier, the shape was not unlike a model m.

Close, but no cigar i'm afraid.
If i remember right, it looked a lot like a model m. Big, grey led cover above the num pad, big red COMPAQ logo above that, and the keys were really hard to press. As a kid, i hated it. But now with my new found hobby i wish i would of saved it haha.
Anyways, thanks ...

I'm sure you all love this sort of thing.
I pulled these off an old keyboard a number of years ago to use them for some sort of project i believe. All i have are the caps and now i want to know where they came from! I'm fairly certain they are from an old Compaq board but i would like to know for ...

This escalated quickly

Really?

Whose penis IS it?

It's all in your heads.

As for the "White Hand of Sauron"... I prefer not to speak of this. You see, me and Dicamus are college bros, he knows more about my personal life than he should.

BACK ON TOPIC MOTHERFUCKERS:

Dickamus, i think you should take some good ...

I live in the house this picture was is, and I can confirm that while Jstews futile attempt at subtly sliding his dick in this picture, it's not nearly as bad as the famed "White hand of Sauron."

I'm currently in possession of the keyboard, and I'll probably end up picking up a converter to make ...

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I still don't really want to pay 20$< for a converter to be honest...

I assume you mean >$20. If you really mean that syntax, you got some 'splainin' to do Lucy!

My bad! You all knew what i meant though, its been a long week for me i just had some surgery so i'm on some powerful medications ...

Dude your emblem is awesome, i love Office Space.

But do you guys see the boner or does this indicate latent homosexuality?

Anyway the best part if this post is when the OP called me "Legendary". Kinda like Tom Cruise in that gawd awful Ridley Scott movie.

Lulz, I've been on Reddit a while, r/keyboards didn't really "do it " for me, passed ...

I may dye the key caps... I've been wanting to try key cap dying for a while now and this one would be good practice.

I'll get this board back home and do some tinkering with it i think.

I still don't really want to pay 20$< for a converter to be honest... I don't want to use this keyboard that ...

captain wrote:Why not get an ABD-USB adapter and just use the keyboard?

I looked up ADB - USB adapters and they were horrendously expensive... I couldn't justify the price considering how much i payed for the board itself.

ripster wrote:Call up Unicomp, order spring/hammers, do a nut/bolt mod and a set of blank keys and make your own Das.

Any sort of documented cases of people doing this? I would really love to see pictures and a walk through of the process.

I COULD "just use it." But like i said, i already have a real buckling-spring model M, i am not in need of another pseudo model M.

Blank key/Das mod sounds fun, i just need to save some money for all of the caps and springs and such.

And don't smoke that brand, bad for you.

Ahh the legendary Ripster, thank you for noticing how dirty the floor is. This picture was taken in the sun-room of my college house that i share with a few roommates. When most of us are home for the summer the one or two people that stay over the summer ...

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Firstly, sorry for the poor image quality, and sorry for the lack of pictures. I bought this at a antique shop in my college town and i happened to leave it at my job there so it is not with me right now to take more/better pictures of.

I can tell you this:

1. It has white Alps ...

[quote="Djuzuh"]I think a keyboard fixed to the wall being used as key holder would be hilarious !


This is exactly the stuff I'm thinking of! Just little things to use them for with or without major changes to the board itself. Maybe i can find a way to have it shelf some 45 vinyl records of mine ...

I recently came across a 1995 Model M, unfortunately it has rubber dome switches :( (71G4644). So i have no use for it or interest in using it for anything since I already own a 1391401 model M. Are there any sort of projects/mods/alterations or any sort of crafts you can do with an old keyboard ...