I’m loving how this Keyboardbelle 1984 build turned out. Full RGB on from the Instant60 to brighten up the night. It also has a brass plate, 62g tangies lubed and filmed, Keyreative Spock keycaps, and a resin spacebar. It has a killer thick sound that I’ve fallen in love with.
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Still using my Dorsch48k as my main keyboard, but now I also programmed the Dorsch40k as a macro keyboard and got a cheap vertical mouse for testing how my hand takes it.
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no desk mat ganggang
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I think the craziest thing about that picture is the landline phone on your desk 
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I’ve still got one of these guys on the wall, but it’s just decoration at the moment. Heh - I guess it’s a family tradition, now that I think about it: my grandparents kept an antique wooden / crank-arm phone on the wall for years, and now it’s on my sister’s wall.
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Abusing massive space animals is a serious crime, Jabba.
It’s all a big misunderstanding!
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I used to have this exact phone! It was my dads before me and I always thought it was so cool.
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Is it from a jail? I know that’s a thing they used to (maybe still?) do for electronics so that things can’t be smuggled inside. When I was a kid my dad had a TV he got at a pawn shop or something that was clear just like that phone and that was why it was clear
It’s a Lenoxx Sound PH-1400; I’m not sure if that was originally developed for prison use, but I remember seeing them in Spencer Gifts in the 90’s.
Clear phones like these were a trend in the 90s so I doubt it was made for prison use.
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We need to bring back the trend for transparent appliances.
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This is a total coincidence, but speaking of transparent appliances, I converted my Macintosh SE/30 into a transparent version today using a case from MacEffects (this is one of their cheaper “Rev. A” cases that isn’t quite as clear as the “Rev. B” versions, but it looks great to me). The installation process is not easy. I’ve taken compact Macs apart for various things in the past, but for this you have to literally remove everything from the stock case and transfer it to the new one. I even had a molex connector pull out of the analog board while I was disassembling things, but thanks to my knowledge of mechanical keyboards, I now know enough about soldering to fix things like that.
It’s not very satisfying to just have a transparent computer but still use the same old beige accessories, so I put together a transparent mechanical keyboard with a DZ60 and Gateron Reds, with a clear KBDFans case and a transparent DCS keyset from PMK. The mouse is a Fellowes Tech Mouse from 1999. MacEffects does also sell a kit that allows you to convert an Apple mouse to be transparent, which I will probably do sooner or later.
Both the keyboard and mouse are USB, which the Macintosh SE/30 does not even come close to supporting on its own, but the Wombat ADB-USB convertor allows you to use USB input devices with Macs that only support ADB. Even the LED underglow/backlight on the keyboard works, which I thought was pretty cool.
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I bow before you. This an amazing project. Super beautiful. If you only had a clear modern m0110
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Yes, I would love a transparent M0110. I could actually 3D print one using transparent resin if I had a big enough printer but as of yet I do not.
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This is amazing! nice work
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Shame. Anyone else who could? I would buy.
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Keycaps would be tricky too. Maybe try the mouse?
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I’ve seen plenty of clear keycaps
I knew I’ve seen them recently 
There are already clear keycaps (see photo above) and a clear mouse case available, so I don’t really feel the need to print any, but there aren’t any transparent M0110 cases as far as I am aware.