[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 153, Issue 58

[camillus]

Hi, Barry

Where did you see those $20 keyboards listed?
I'm google now for three days, the cheapest I found was round $30 with shipping.

If you would be able and kind to reveal the url, that would be very nice.

thanks in advance
cb


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On 8/23/2015 2:44:29 AM, Barry Nelson <barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com> wrote:
It looks like the cherry switches are obtainable for $1.33 a switch in quantities needed for a single keyboard. Less $ if more than that are needed. At the quantities for a single keyboard that works out to $80 for the switches.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/30Pcs-Cherry-MX-Brown-Switch-Original-Mechanical-Keyboard-Switch-Free-Ship-/271574517333?hash=item3f3b1a4655

Also, I saw entire cherry switch keyboards listed for $20. You could buy one of those and scavenge the switches and you would have almost enough for two CoCo 3 keyboards, plus most of the keycaps would be useable as is, that is if you wanted the CoCo 3 key layout, otherwise if you wanted a standard layout and patched your ROM accordingly, all of them would be usable.

On Aug 22, 2015, at 3:15 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:

> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 01:35:37 -0500
> From: "camillus"
> To: "Steve Batson via Coco"
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Mechanical keyboard upgrades for the CoCo
> Message-ID:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Probably very true but how to protect the decal after applied. I've seen keyboards with backed in captions all disappeared or faded.
>
> cb
>
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> On 8/21/2015 11:36:29 PM, Melanie and John Mark Mobley wrote:
> I think you can make your own makings on blank key caps by using dry
> transfer decals.
>
> John Mark Mobley


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