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01 November 2011, 17:14
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Weird yellowing of Amiga keyboard
Hello,
I've noticed on Amibay this post for an A1200: http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/8554/sam1878z.jpg It if funny seeing how whole different rows of keys have the plastic color decayed while others much less to none. How is it possible? Different production quality? Hard to believe on the same keyboard. |
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01 November 2011, 17:23
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Someone has been swapping key caps hence the inconsistent colouring.
One option is to buy a brand new white Italian A1200 keyboard: http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/...oducts_id=1047 |
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01 November 2011, 19:10
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01 November 2011, 19:53
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small keys near Enter and Z are blank
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01 November 2011, 19:55
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It is possible that the keycaps were from several batches. I've seen A500 keyboards like this too.
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01 November 2011, 20:17
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01 November 2011, 20:31
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01 November 2011, 22:28
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i have seen this on lots of systems,even where the keyboard is white and the case is going yellow. |
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01 November 2011, 22:55
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02 November 2011, 08:36
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Just another C= cost cutting measure.. :-) No need to produce separate switch trays with large left shift + return keys when only two keymaps specified them. Everyone else in the world had the small shift + return.
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02 November 2011, 19:05
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the only explanation there for the yellowed keys in that pic is that those keys comes from a different batch of bad quality plastics
in my point of view the original A1200 done by commodore comes generally with bad quality plastics....tends to turn yellow in a few time.....but the new set of A1200 done by escom comes with a much better white plastic much more resistant to wear yellow |
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