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Re: To Retrobright or not to..
« on: December 04, 2014, 10:25:07 AM »
I have bought a batch of 12% peroxide to use at some point after ive built a UV bed (no sun in Sweden haha) to use on a Commodore PC keyboard that is badly yellowed to get it to it's former glory, the thing holding me off is the re-yellowing, don't know how long it takes, if it lasts a few years I don't mind.

This keyboard (not my pic mine is more yellow) is the one I want in correct color again for my Commodore PC-20 III, the case is in great shape but not the keyboard sadly :/

The gray/white colors seems to be inverted on the Commodore PC keyboards compared to the Amiga keyboards.
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Re: To Retrobright or not to..
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2014, 04:44:35 PM »
Quote from: ral-clan;780709
I don't mean to derail the topic, but is that a Commodore branded IBM Model-M keyboard?  Wow, if it is I would like one of those! I use a regular IBM branded Model-M currently. What is the part number?

Yes it is! (not my pic just picked one on google images since my keyboard and computer is in storage) It's a buckling spring Model M with Commodore branding :D In my opinion the coolest Model M on the market :D

These are really hard to come by with buckling springs, family bought this together with the Commodore PC, sadly it has seen better days, no wear adn tear but mine has yellowed quite a bit, also Has the shortcut stickers from the Q&A Symantec software, easy to remove so not problems there but I want it to be white again that's why I posted here :)

I cann check the part number when I take it out the next time but if my memory serves me right it could be a commodore sticker there so I do not know if part numbers are the same as IBM branded ones.

Edit: I would realy like to use it at my main workstation but I want to have it together with my Commodore PC-20 III when I amd done with it, I want toadd a FPU, 1-2MB ISA RAM Expansion (there are hell to get hold of with software) and a fitting ISA VGA card from the era (Hercules monochrome ain't to fun) :)

So anyone has  ISA graphics card from 1986-1991ish hit me a PM and I'll buy it, something like ATI Wonder series, Tseng Labs ET4000, S3's or Cirrus Logics from that era. Would make my day if anyone has that :D

Should have some Cirrus Logics laying around somewhere in my storage so should look into that but I think at least most of them are to modern, around mid 90s, I know I have a few Oak Technology cards but don't know to much about them, took em from 486 computers in mid/late 90s when everyone throwed those computers on the dump.
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