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I'm bidding on a Model F that ends today, here's hoping no one comes in and jacks up the price!

Yeah, RollerMouse is a bridge too far for me. Hell I don't even like trackballs.

I completely understand the sentiment of modernizing the keyboard (hell that's what I'm hoping for long term), but from a risk mitigation angle it may make more sense to do a full on reproduction as then you have a well known yard stick to compare to. I'd go one further and say Ellipse should focus ...

What's your intent with respect to the final files (open source/proprietary) for various parts? You've clearly put quite a bit of work into this so it certainly wouldn't be crazy for you to try and turn this into a business ala Gon. I'm not a huge can of the classic model f form factors but I do lik...

Hey if people would stop putting the LEAST IMPORTANT words in bold and all caps then I wouldn't have to train myself to ignore it all!

XMIT wrote: ↑Do you mean a Chicony KB-5181? Something like this:
http://coronthica.com/by-uuid/52067671- ... bf8ef609f/
?

Yep! I can probably practice on the AEKII case I got from you as it will be a casualty to my tinkering

Old ADDS Terminals (no idea on switches) : http://www.ebay.com/itm/161362292540 From the listing WAS TOLD BY FELLOW EBAYER THAT THESE ARE KEYTRONIC FOAM AND FOIL SWITCHES. SENT HIM PICTURES OF UNDERNEATH KEYS. Hahaha, I totally glazed over the BIG BOLD WORDS assuming it was some dumb warning/advert...

APC-H412 (Should be NEC Blue Ovals): http://www.ebay.com/itm/311355926073

Old ADDS Terminals (no idea on switches) : http://www.ebay.com/itm/161362292540

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And if a Bulgarian would like to pickup so Aristotle MX Clones on a Chicony KB-5191: http://www.ebay.com/itm/221803630891

I was excited too, but then I saw you can't put KPT switches in Alp keyboards as there are not compatible. But the caps are ALPS compatible even if there were issues with the switches. International shipping probably puts it out of the "value" range, but if it would have been in the US it would hav...

Blaise170 wrote: ↑KPT-102 with blue clicky KPT switches: http://www.ebay.com/itm/221807569067

I was all excited until I saw it was local pickup only... in Bulgaria.

Good to know. I'm debating what to do with my 5181, try and retrobright it or paint it.

And if the results from the first board are any indication you're going to have some great boards to sell in the coming weeks!

Hard to tell from the pictures, but how do you feel the retrobright concoction worked?

I just use flux. Keeps that evil blue light away.

Blaise170 wrote: ↑Did the datacenter throw a fit about the DDoS? Something seems off.

That's really not that uncommon, especially if it was hosted at a smaller data center. Just like credit card processors, when they deem you too much of a risk they cut you off.

Was GH running on a physical or virtual server?

NKRO and soft click, very nice!

XMIT wrote:Nope, the MIT way is "Brute force is the last resort of the incompetent." http://studentlife.mit.edu/mindandhandb ... es/hacking

I guess that's why one school specializes in mental pursuits and the other in putting big ass holes in the earth.

baldgye wrote: beanie baby's are awesome wtf

People can ruin anything.

I think it's a combination of a lot of things, with one of the big ones being novelty keycaps and the drama/idiocy that surrounds them. Yeah, novelty-hysteria has latched onto the GH brain stem. Artificial scarcity, and obsessive collectors, what could possibly go wrong? It's like reliving 1990s be...

XMIT wrote: Time to go get the hammer and a nail...

Mechanical Violence: if at first you don't succeed, use more.

Don't know if that's MIT way, buts it's certainly the Mines way!

Okay. Please excuse the mediocre photos, but the hardware promises to just get less accessible for a while and there isn't much time for retouching. <Snip Gloriously Geeky Description> This thread has had me grinning all day knowing that you've kept these keyboards alive and humming. AI Lab, Symbol...

Love the boards, and I can't even begin to imagine the amazing stories they could tell if they could talk! The only way MMcM could have gotten these keyboards, is by being a true Lisp Beard. His must be long and gray. I'd say that's an accurate description of one of the 21 founders of Symbolics... :D

Come to think of it: does Kickstarter allow non-US based projects? I don't recall ever seeing one. The UK was opened up in late 2012. Nederlands opened last year, but I don't know about the rest of Europe at this point. I know I've run into a few since the Euro as donation denomination is a dead gi...