deskthority

Interesting find, an industrial SSK on eBay. Interesting in the sense that I'm really curious about the final price.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Model-M-Cli ... 1225517180

I thought I'd post my step-by-step protocol on how to get the TMK firmware onto bpiphany's HID Liberation Device (for Filco Majestouch 2 TKL). I wrote this down like a year ago or so. Some links could be dead, version numbers could be different. This is on Win7 64bit. Program the HID Liberation Devi...

Yes of course.
BTW, I really need to wiki this thing.

Looks similar to my Philips keyboard:

http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... t4798.html

How are the audioengines?

Fine tolerance :? Allowing +/- 15 g tolerance for a 45 g rated switch is - well - crap. Of course, usually the switch activation forces are within a much smaller range but you can get a Monday morning model if you're unlucky. An erratic force Realforce: http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/very-light...

The separate NumLock key makes sense. Does it also activate the internal numpad? How would one switch between the numpad numerical functions and its cursor navigation functions? How is that realized in original IBM SSKs? I think you have to press shift to momentarily switch to the cursor functionali...

sean4star wrote:.....<snip>..... Maybe I can dye both the keycap stems and the sliders?! I'm not sure what kind of plastic they are, but it's worth a shot.

AFAIK, the sliders are from ABS, and dyeing does not work well with ABS plastic.

The switches feel very rubber-domy and quite scratchy if hit off-center. Not really refined but I think that was not the intention here. The keyboard layout looks nice at first but the position of the enter key is totally wrong. It's one position too far to the left: under your pinky. I guess there ...

This is the "Goedhart Visicom teksttelefoon", probably the Visicom II, a text telephone for the deaf and hearing impaired made by the Dutch company Goedhart Electronics in 2004. The design seems to from 1999, at least that's the date on the controller daughterboard. The Visicom could - and possibly ...

Nice idea, we don't see many double-stepped key caps these days.
Did you look at SP's DCS family? Not all of your desired shapes are available but quite a few are.
http://keycapsdirect.com/pdfs/DCSFamily.pdf

This guy has no idea what he's talking about. LEDs mounted inside the switches in order to protect them from dying from ESD. Right. But yay! for full key programmability! Hopefully without needing drivers. Regarding the light show: http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/unicorn-poopcook...

No idea about the Noppoo.

These are also wireless:
Filco Minila Air
Matias Secure Pro
Matias Laptop Pro

Nice to see a split keyboard with mechanical switches, and it's also good to see so much product news from Matias.

But why o why did they stick to the stupid standard staggering. IMO, the most important non-ergonomic feature of ordinary keyboards is exactly this staggering.

Nothing wrong with intestine. As matter of fact, proper sausages are nothing more than prepared meat packed in a a piece of intestine. BTW, have you seen the Vienna episode of Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservation"? Here's the most interesting part: http://www.travelchannel.com/video/tonys-purbach-dinn...

Communication with EK in progress. But it's going s...l...o...w...l...y.

No reason why rubber should be more inconsistent than metal springs. It's all about the production process and quality control.
From what I understood from Brian at EK, there were some problems with earlier all-45g Realforces. Maybe mine is one of them.

7bit wrote:Please post a close-up of the hand-crafted cap!

Here we go:

Here's something I've found the other day. There's more to come.

Thanks a lot, matt3o. I have absolutely no clue about programming but your explanations helped me understanding some basics of the TMK code.

Well, this is still 1964 years away. On the other hand, a recent call with my cable provider's help desk conjured up this exact image

My Secret Santa was well on time so here is a - long overdue - picture. A beautiful set of dye-subbed Cherry MX-compatible caps from a Gabriele typewriter. Nice
On top of that there were three special caps thrown in, one of them skillfully hand-crafted!

Thank you, Santa!

Wow, I love the idea of "LED spotlights"! Very elegant. A problem, however, would probably be the visibility in full daylight. But hey, one can always close the curtains/blinds ;) And here's my input about Fn-lock, Fn etc: I like having a Fn and Fn lock key. That being said, the location of these ke...

I have no long term experience with reduced pitch keyboards but I've noticed that some keys are easier to reach on smaller, otherwise inferior laptop keyboards.

BTW, the microTRON has a reduced key pitch.
17 mm
http://www.personal-media.co.jp/utronkb/spec.html

Puh, da hab ich ja was losgetreten

Wollte nicht als Blockwart rueberkommen aber: kyb, du hattest so gut wie keine Posts und ich dachte: schon wieder so einer, der sich nur anmeldet, um seine ebay-Auktionen zu promoten. Solche kommen hier leider regelmaessig vorbei.
Nichts fuer ungut.

Hiho kyb,
kommt immer gut an hier bei DT, Reklame machen für eine ebay-Auktion.
Entweder hier anbieten ODER woanders.

Nice as always...
But I was wondering if a dedicated eject key is really necessary. Shouldn't that be in a secondary layer? Besides, how long do you think the eject key will be present on Mac keyboards? Most Apple computers don't have a built-in optical drive anymore.

I will contact Elitekeyoards about it. I know that their support is for US-sales only but I'm curious about how they see this.

@002: you've got my attention

I'm in favor of 3 LEDs: Caps, Scrl and Num (the latter for the integrated numpad).

You're asking if I would pay 250 $ for one? Hell yes!

Topre indeed sells variable force keyboards ("ergonomically weighted"). I've tried one and I did not like it; mainly because I've found the pinky keys being too light. That's why I've bought an uniformly -weighted Realforce and it's actually worse. :( The way it is cannot really be intentional. You ...