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I’ve found Pandrew’s util to be pretty easy to work with, and certainly accurate about key down / up events. This is with his firmware (built with his web app) running on Xwhatsit hardware in original IBMs. Here’s the signal tester in action (on a beamspring): https://deskthority.net/download/file.p...

Sterling diagnosis!

Yeah, I want to sell it all in one go, though. Not interested in splitting it up piecemeal.

Why would µ have this?

Maybe I should just finally sell you my WHOLE Round 5 collection. It's huge, probably got everything you need and then some. I’m not interested in splitting it though, if I’m out, I’m out.

The box it came in (and is still stored in) is literally the size of a microwave.

Really doesn't hurt to use it. Word by word and para by para cursor movement, and a wealth of keyboard shortcuts for often used commands. It's a vital mod for me.

(Posting this as much to displace "prime real estate" from the forum spy, which keeps catching my eye as a spam target to kill! )

If he does, I want a Kishsaver remake for my efforts in juicy spam squashing.

Ellipse should buy it. We are the support forum for his multi million dollar business, after all. :$

Hmm…

Key repeat rate should really be handled at the host, not on the keyboard, in my view. There’s nothing more disruptive than random crazy when you’re holding keys. It’s always the unintended triggers that getcha! I’d implement a faster repeat for arrow keys in Karabiner, if I didn’t already use Alt t...

A spammer just found this thread. In the process of deleting his payload, I learned this thing existed. Soarer you prolific bugger, you! A decade on and I’m still impressed.

I’m always thinking about making wired boards wireless, thanks to Hasu so revolutionising my HHKBs. I put in so much time on these guys because of how convenient and compelling they are. My Realforce could sorely need some of that love, but the great big beige USB A cable on it (uncoiled and hanging...

That little X button is getting quite the workout again this morning. Our man in Pakistan is on a bender. Just think of all his effort registering new accounts, picking a place to post or starting a new thread, pasting in his payload links—which he presumably has to manage to some extent as well—the...

Another three letter word. https://deskthority.net/search.php?keywords=Seo Doubt it even works these days. But all it takes is clients who think it does. Update: Following that link led me to some vintage spam I duly deleted, and ultimately this: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4323 Thi...

DT’s resident spammer is busy today. I’ve whacked about 10 posts of theirs. All instant payload: no laying low for later edits this time. They must have lost their ineffective patience.

Travel keyboards can be front line classics, too.

I like the sneaky, contour-hugging cable. Thought it was working wirelessly for a moment there!

Definitely counts. Nice find! :D I recently discovered she herself constructed the bizarre language her character speaks in The Fifth Element (what a movie!) before she picks up English from Bruce Willis. When I saw it I thought she was just speaking her native language! But no, she constructed one....

MoeeTech wrote: ↑

05 Feb 2024, 05:41

browncow wrote: ↑

02 Feb 2024, 17:21

Findecanor wrote: ↑

02 Feb 2024, 16:14

Maybe I'm too old and tired, but I didn't understand a single word of that in context with the others.

me too and i'm not old so don't worry.

Thank you for your serious review of the keyboard,

Beware USB C. It needs a pull-up resistor to fall back to USB as we know it, in case that’s the issue blocking you: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?p=514949#p514949 The inability to use a straight USB C cable to hook up my USB C ported AT to my USB C computer has annoyed me enough I’m consider...

ifohancroft wrote: ↑

03 Feb 2024, 11:19

Since they are offering to sell the forum back to the community…

They are? Gee, if only there were some sort of forum they could conduct this conversation on about the future of our forum.

Looks up from phone, blinks eyes, takes a quick glance at life.

"TL;DR"

I, too, really like oldschool black Alps. The first NeXT keyboards feel just as good as they look.

That's why I used weaselly passive voice. (Weasels always need their wiggle room!) I've no reason to trust the claim—"forums are for olds, youngs are strictly on <INSERT FAD HERE>"—either, but I surely hear it often enough. I think it's more of a personal taste than an age cohort thing. We "forum ty...

genericusername57 wrote: ↑

02 Feb 2024, 08:53

Caps lock+escape for the key that's usually to the right of the 1-key.

That's an interesting way to type 2.

Yes, chat and forums are completely different things. Forums have whole threads grouped together for all time, searchable and browsable. Chat prizes the opposite: its ever drifting immediacy. The popular assumption seems to be that there’s a generational divide, however, with younger people preferri...

My own way to handle SHOUT MODE is to put Caps Lock behind a macro: press both Shift keys to press Caps Lock. It’s immediately obvious when you think about it, dead easy to remember, and lets me use that precious key just left of A for something a hell of a lot more useful to me. :D Soarer told me t...

Here's how I have my IBM Kishsaver laid out, if you're looking for ideas: Layer 0 Screenshot 2024-02-01 at 3.46.57 pm.png Layer 1 Screenshot 2024-02-01 at 3.46.47 pm.png Load the attached json into Pandrew's QMK configurator to dig around inside. The key is to pick a good—HHKB!—function layer. The e...

https://discord.com/invite/ddjx7WS

It's in Deskthority's navigation bar, when you hit the Chat button.

I said "DT" Chat because it has rebranded as The Keyboard Institute for reasons I won't go into…

The recent several days downtime was long enough to finally get me on "DT" Discord. It's… different. We complained about DT's hosting a lot and discussed archival, but keyboards not so much. I’m just more at home on a forum with persistent state than live text.

DOESN'T WORK UNLESS TYPED IN UPPERCASE, RIGHT? I would need to write a pretty long essay before I'd use caps lock over just holding down the left shift, but to each their own obviously. Capitalisation is best done with styles in a document like an essay. That way you can change all of them at once, ...