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Arrows on HHKB are somewhat OK, although cursoring too much gets tiresome.
PgUp/PgDn are bearable.
Home/End make me cringe.

Muirium wrote:Quite like Elrick said: a lot of people praise them too much when they've just plunked down the readies, and are still under their own inner salesman's spell.

So true for keyboard fora. Direct boost by item's price and/or rarity.

Not that I've any complaints about HHKB build quality. I don't own one, but the one I proxied was solid and impressively light. My HHKB squeaks very loudly when I rest my palm on the lower right corner. :mrgreen: There are couple of quibbles about HHKBs, they're not that perfect as one would believ...

Muirium wrote:Indeed! Melissa's back now, she helped me place my Dolch order yesterday.

Which shipping option did you take?

matt3o wrote:

woody wrote:What is the choice of stabilizers for PCB (no plate)?

PCB mounted cherry stabilizer. don't think we have much options there.

Thanks. I lack somewhat in the stabilizer department

What is the choice of stabilizers for PCB (no plate)?

Interesting scratchpad notes you have.

According to this topic, you have one: http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/frankenboard-m0116-apple-adb-ja-elecom-with-black-alps-t6168.html You also couldn't be sure whether the switches were salmon or orange, but no pictures to let us check. Some misunderstanding? ADB keyboards that I have are: -...

What does the SMK one have for caps lock and power? On mine power is same white SMK as the rest. Caps Lock is also white, although the stem lacks the special notch on one of the short sides. Apple version with salmon Alps? http://sidewinder007.tistory.com/archive/20110202 — photography error, switc...

Possibilities - yes, various. Easy - no, for my definitions of "easy".

Get an external PS/2 to USB converter.

Nice, a PS2/USB combo one.

Good to see Cherry switched to two-layer PCB and SMD assembly. Also EMI care with RC dampeners on each long line.

Mine are mostly G84-4100LPAUS, the 83-key lasered PS/2 version.

Thanks for the pictures!

Nice pictures. Visually the controller PCB matches mine, at least what I could remember from it before assembling it back. Mine dates from around the same time, so they could be the same revision. I think the Freescale MCU markings match as well, so you have pretty good chance to restore it with a m...

Mine differs from the wiki pictures as well. Anyway, there is one 5-pin header on the PCB where the cable is soldered wire by wire. Solder side has pin numbers. 1 - thick black wire - SHIELD 2 - yellow wire - PS/2 CLOCK 3 - thin black wire - GND 4 - green wire - VCC 5 - white wire - PS/2 DATA Could ...

PS/2 or "legacy" keyboard options are not present, but next time I might try how the "UEFI / legacy" boot option affects the HHKB. The funny things is, that after OS load and soft reboot (not cold powerup) the HHKB works. And I am almost sure another (older) Thinkpad does not behave like this and HH...

What exactly do you need? I could check later.

I'm sure I read somewhere that it would be possible to use some sort of sealant coating to prevent or reduce the re-yellowing. I wonder if you reapplied retr0Bright enough times it would eventually eliminate most of the bromine (and hence yellowing) but leave your keyboard case/caps a combustible h...

I have similar problems with HHKB Pro2 on Thinkpad. After powerup it doesn't work (BIOS) up until the OS. Might be the integrated hub, might be something else.

xwhatsit wrote:Now I know more than I ever would have otherwise about `current mirrors' and what `thermal resistance of junction to ambient (θja)' means and how to use the number

Muirium wrote:We are the bees, he is the hive.

Or perhaps it's the other way around. I'm not allowed to peek behind the hypervisor.

I imagine this is a rather big visor, distinctively bigger than a super-visor.

Topic, or not to pick.

Next GB - two keys. One with, one without space.

7bit wrote:Delete Left: Delete a character left of the cursor
Delete: Delete a character at cursor-position
Delete Right: Delete a character right of the cursor

Also "Delete Wrong" and "Delete Random".

Where do you get Costar stabs from?

Much better and consistent than Cherry's fugly Д / Ъ / Ю, which some people dream about.

matt3o wrote:Really, a lot of work.

Charge some percentage of the GB for leading it. Everybody should consider it normal.
Or at least keep that in mind for the next adventure.

First one was from random ad poster sold on eBay. Last one is from "Nibble" magazine vol. 4 / no. 4 (1983).

No, the forum has upload limit of about 1MB. Initially I wanted to simply include it in this thread. And, yes, of course I can reduce the resolution and file size, but as I said before, it needs descreening, which is best done on the original data. I lack tool to do this. Here's "reduced" image that...

kbdfr wrote:

woody wrote:In for two "Space Invader" caps.

Considering there are going to be 20 of them altogether, you're in for 10% of the world supply

There is some surplus of extra keycaps that I have accumulated, so wouldn't mind trading for SP Invaders.

I did a scan of the magazine ad, but it is about 3.5MB and way over the upload limit. Any easy way to upload somewhere, or maybe somebody's email to send to? It needs descreening and resizing, and then it can find it's way to the Wiki. EDIT: What is interesting about this keyboard, is that it is for...