The keyboard came with the classic two-tone colour scheme and has pad-printed legends in Futura. The legends are in excellent condition and only a few keys are a bit shiny, while most of them are still very textured. The switches are MX Blacks (non-vintage) and plate mounted.
Sun Type 5 Keyboard
- BlueBär
- Location: Germany, SB
- Main keyboard: KBT Pure
- Main mouse: Deathadder 2013
- Favorite switch: Ergo Clear 62g/MX White
- DT Pro Member: -
The keyboard came with the classic two-tone colour scheme and has pad-printed legends in Futura. The legends are in excellent condition and only a few keys are a bit shiny, while most of them are still very textured. The switches are MX Blacks (non-vintage) and plate mounted.
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- 7bit
- Location: Berlin, DE
- Main keyboard: Tipro / IBM 3270 emulator
- Main mouse: Logitech granite for SGI
- Favorite switch: MX Lock
- DT Pro Member: 0001
Wow!
I didn't know these exist.
German is quite a verbose language, much more appropriate for poetry than for key cap labels:
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I didn't know these exist.
German is quite a verbose language, much more appropriate for poetry than for key cap labels:
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- daedalus
- Buckler Of Springs
- Location: Ireland
- Main keyboard: Model M SSK (home) HHKB Pro 2 (work)
- Main mouse: CST Lasertrack, Logitech MX Master
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring, Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0087
I thought the Filcos used Futura?mr_a500 wrote:I've never seen a keyboard with Futura font before. I don't really like the keyboard style, but the font is nice.
I used a modified (by me) Futura font as my main Amiga font for years. I still use Futura for my notepad on my Mac.
Nice keyboard! I'd have been jealous if it was a clone of the ANSI "Unix" style ones with the backspace over the return key and Esc where `~ usually is
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- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- DT Pro Member: 0011
The small font on the numeric row, fun cluster etc. seems to be the same as on the Sun Type 5: I think it could be Lucida Sans or something very close.
- BlueBär
- Location: Germany, SB
- Main keyboard: KBT Pure
- Main mouse: Deathadder 2013
- Favorite switch: Ergo Clear 62g/MX White
- DT Pro Member: -
It seems to be slightly different, good spot!Findecanor wrote:The small font on the numeric row, fun cluster etc. seems to be the same as on the Sun Type 5: I think it could be Lucida Sans or something very close.
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- Location: US
- Main keyboard: Omnikey 102 Blackheart
- Main mouse: Kensington Expert Mouse
- Favorite switch: White Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0174
Aren't the old Filcos in Futura Italic?mr_a500 wrote:I've never seen a keyboard with Futura font before. I don't really like the keyboard style, but the font is nice.
I used a modified (by me) Futura font as my main Amiga font for years. I still use Futura for my notepad on my Mac.
- DanielT
- Un petit village gaulois d'Armorique…
- Location: Bucharest/Romania
- Main keyboard: Various custom 60%'s/HHKB
- Main mouse: MS Optical Mouse 200
- Favorite switch: Topre/Linear MX
- DT Pro Member: -
As from now I'm the new owner of this beauty
Didn't had time to do some proper testing, in the weekend I'll fire up my SUN Ultra 5 station and make some real life tests.
I have typed on all kind of SUN keyboards, and must say that this one is by far the best one, the black switches have a nice feeling, they're not scratchy at all. For a 60% user like me, this board is huge, but is a Cherry MX SUN compatible board, and that, for a long time SUN fan is a great find
One weird thing I noticed are the stabs,they're like noting I've seen before. These are kind of Costar-ish type, but compatible with nothing, I'll take some photos because these I really something than can not be described in words. Even the spacebar is non standard, the mount points are in the same place as for 6.25u but this is a 7u spacebar.
Maybe I will try also a Teensy conversion for this board, looking over Hassu's code I discovered that you can use it without any additional circuitry.
A guy already done this conversion, and also made some changes to the code https://plus.google.com/+YannHodique/posts/LigrqSMyt8m
Didn't had time to do some proper testing, in the weekend I'll fire up my SUN Ultra 5 station and make some real life tests.
I have typed on all kind of SUN keyboards, and must say that this one is by far the best one, the black switches have a nice feeling, they're not scratchy at all. For a 60% user like me, this board is huge, but is a Cherry MX SUN compatible board, and that, for a long time SUN fan is a great find
One weird thing I noticed are the stabs,they're like noting I've seen before. These are kind of Costar-ish type, but compatible with nothing, I'll take some photos because these I really something than can not be described in words. Even the spacebar is non standard, the mount points are in the same place as for 6.25u but this is a 7u spacebar.
Maybe I will try also a Teensy conversion for this board, looking over Hassu's code I discovered that you can use it without any additional circuitry.
A guy already done this conversion, and also made some changes to the code https://plus.google.com/+YannHodique/posts/LigrqSMyt8m
- DanielT
- Un petit village gaulois d'Armorique…
- Location: Bucharest/Romania
- Main keyboard: Various custom 60%'s/HHKB
- Main mouse: MS Optical Mouse 200
- Favorite switch: Topre/Linear MX
- DT Pro Member: -
Looking at an Apple Alps keyboard in an other thread I realized that the stabs on the Type 5 keyboard are alps stabilizers, with the same guides for the space bar... this is strange choice for a Cherry MX board I would say ...
I have to take some detailed pictures of the board, so far is a really interesting find
I have to take some detailed pictures of the board, so far is a really interesting find
- BlueBär
- Location: Germany, SB
- Main keyboard: KBT Pure
- Main mouse: Deathadder 2013
- Favorite switch: Ergo Clear 62g/MX White
- DT Pro Member: -
I was quite surprised the first time I took the spacebar off as well - I never had seen such a stabilizer mechanism on an MX keyboard before.
Oh and the black switches - these are sadly no vintage blacks, they would have been smoother. That's the first thing I checked when I got the board, and I think with vintage blacks I would have kept it. But it's good to see it now has an owner who really appreciates it!
Oh and the black switches - these are sadly no vintage blacks, they would have been smoother. That's the first thing I checked when I got the board, and I think with vintage blacks I would have kept it. But it's good to see it now has an owner who really appreciates it!
- DanielT
- Un petit village gaulois d'Armorique…
- Location: Bucharest/Romania
- Main keyboard: Various custom 60%'s/HHKB
- Main mouse: MS Optical Mouse 200
- Favorite switch: Topre/Linear MX
- DT Pro Member: -
Yes, no vintage blacks, but they are well broken in and that makes them quite nice. Bottom line it's a nice board, and a coll item for my SUN collection
- XMIT
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- Location: Austin, TX area
- Main keyboard: XMIT Hall Effect
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac Trackball
- Favorite switch: XMIT 60g Tactile Hall Effect
- DT Pro Member: 0093
Necro! These are rare indeed but I managed to find one recently. I'll be posting here as I get some photos and decide what I want to do with it. Unlike the OP mine is quite yellow, missing a few keys and has some broken switch stems!
- DanielT
- Un petit village gaulois d'Armorique…
- Location: Bucharest/Romania
- Main keyboard: Various custom 60%'s/HHKB
- Main mouse: MS Optical Mouse 200
- Favorite switch: Topre/Linear MX
- DT Pro Member: -
Unfortunately mine was broken, when I have opened it there were signs of spillage, wasn't able to make it work, none of my SUN workstations were able to detect it, the controller seemed fried.
- XMIT
- [ XMIT ]
- Location: Austin, TX area
- Main keyboard: XMIT Hall Effect
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac Trackball
- Favorite switch: XMIT 60g Tactile Hall Effect
- DT Pro Member: 0093
Ah yes, you acquired this one from the OP!
No promises as to when I'll get to it but this one is a nice candidate for a controller replacement.
No promises as to when I'll get to it but this one is a nice candidate for a controller replacement.