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GuilleAcoustic wrote: 29 Jun 2021, 10:09 Nothing fancy, just 2 classic keyboards

Oh man... don't forget the beautiful trackball.

My BTC 8120. Despite the nuisance of having Erase-Eaze on the side where I use space, it's a really nice looking board with great feeling rubber domes

My 1995 Industrial has to be the best i have!

rare F's are sexy

shine wrote: 24 Aug 2021, 19:42 rare F's are sexy

That's just pornography

Picture of this bad boy (TI 911) just cleaned, the 70s looking is pure madness:

One for the wall and one for the desk.

I don't like the Reuters that much, but the other two, especially the last one make my mouth water. Amazing!

What's that first board? the coloured dots look really cool

zrrion wrote: 28 Aug 2021, 00:37 What's that first board? the coloured dots look really cool

As far as I know I found the only 3 known ones - I sold 2 and have this one left

Breakdown: viewtopic.php?f=62&t=25386

Wiki entry:
wiki/Intelligent_Systems_Corp_Intecolor_101894

schwi wrote: 28 Jun 2021, 05:30 Here's a thing

I guess you're the guy who outbid me at Ebay

Mobotron wrote: 27 Aug 2021, 23:01 20210311_124953.jpg20210504_163002.jpg20210415_150502.jpg20201116_182034.jpg

Damn, that's a peculiar layout (last one). I love the dials and the switches. Does it have magnetic valves?

Today is the third anniversary of me hearing of custom and mechanical keyboards for the first time so I pulled out all of my vintage stuff from the depth of a wardrobe in the attic I'm confined to with my obsession. The monoblock splits are the evolutionary stages of my custom daily drivers, the vintage ones are eye-candy, I handle them as artworks and don't use them.

Tatung terminal, IBM 5155 (with the remnants of my first board made of cardboard), Kaypro 10, Honeywell terminal, Tatung terminal keyboard, Epson PX-4, Philips something, white Datacoop, Groma Kolibri Luxus, DEC LK201, Reuters, my daily drivers at work and at home, Gepard-8, Datacoop, LK201 clone, my earlier plates, Preh Commander, Epson HX-20, another Datacoop, and some noname AT/XT keyboards.

My new in box never used Mupid II C2A2.

Tha_Pig wrote: 29 Aug 2021, 09:48I guess you're the guy who outbid me at Ebay

this board was BIN, so you must be thinking of another...

dovenyi wrote: 29 Aug 2021, 20:07

Today is the third anniversary of me hearing of custom and mechanical keyboards for the first time so I pulled out all of my vintage stuff from the depth of a wardrobe in the attic I'm confined to with my obsession. The monoblock splits are the evolutionary stages of my custom daily drivers, the vintage ones are eye-candy, I handle them as artworks and don't use them.

Tatung terminal, IBM 5155 (with the remnants of my first board made of cardboard), Kaypro 10, Honeywell terminal, Tatung terminal keyboard, Epson PX-4, Philips something, white Datacoop, Groma Kolibri Luxus, DEC LK201, Reuters, my daily drivers at work and at home, Gepard-8, Datacoop, LK201 clone, my earlier plates, Preh Commander, Epson HX-20, another Datacoop, and some noname AT/XT keyboards.

Tatung terminals and datacoop impressed me most, really interested in them. Do you mind to share more details about them, swithes? Never seen them before, how and where you found em? NICE taste.

I have a lot of close-ups but not sure what's the best way to share them. I'm definitely goint to write an entry about each of these on my blog.
Btw, the Datacoops (almost identic to the Gepard) are optical keyboards from the '80s made in Hungary for different purposes: for computers, telex machines and even industrial use. They have a matrix of physical channels below the keys (valves) so LEDs and photoresistors were required only per row/column.
I don't have much info on the Tatung. It's a very cool keyboard from 1984 with switches that look like Alps SKCC. Very high double-shot SA-like caps and big hollow case.
Many of the boards on the picture came from a single local guy who wanted to get rid of his collection. He worked at a Swiss company and made regular dumpster diving I guess.

Thorogrimm wrote: 29 Aug 2021, 15:42

Mobotron wrote: 27 Aug 2021, 23:01 20210311_124953.jpg20210504_163002.jpg20210415_150502.jpg20201116_182034.jpg

Damn, that's a peculiar layout (last one). I love the dials and the switches. Does it have magnetic valves?

More info here:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25107&p=477141#p477141

schwi wrote: 30 Aug 2021, 01:52

Tha_Pig wrote: 29 Aug 2021, 09:48I guess you're the guy who outbid me at Ebay

this board was BIN, so you must be thinking of another...

I was kidding. I have seen a few like that on eBay, but they are usually pretty expensive for something that I can't use, despite looking awesome.