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https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery8.htmlThis is an IBM 2260 Video Display Unit, once the glass teletype of choice for a timesharing system.
the IBM 1050 Data Terminal shown below circa 1970. This one had a keyboard, printer and punched card reader. It used the six-bit Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) code at 134.5 bps. A bunch of these shared the same telephone line with each one selected by a special prefix code. It had no internal memory, so the operator had to retype a line of data if the checksum failed. The last one I saw was buried in the Negev Desert in 1971.
Yup. I always wanted row 1 but 7bit restricted them to row 3 at some stage in Round 5's lengthy history (one of his low selling kit culls back in the day) and I stayed on them anyway. Probably shouldn't have bothered. They're nice, but context is everything. I may well try to sell them.zslane wrote: ↑Those mono-legends look tasty, but not being R1 really hurts the sculpted aesthetic.
I appreciate it. I have posted in that thread.usopia wrote: ↑Yes, your request is better off in the R5 Aftermarket Thread:
http://deskthority.net/w-a-n-t-t-o-t-r- ... 10510.html.
But the price of a nice set of dyesubs makes me SAD. And that's just ISO!DanielT wrote: ↑Life is so easy for me, I like and use only Cherry stuff
I certainly have a vested interested in believing this to be true (re: SA Dasher/Dancer), but a quick look at Danger Zone's order figures tells an interesting tale: it sold 617 base sets, and 152 kits between Ergo, Planck/Atomic, and UK-ISO. That means that nearly 25% of the base kits are targeting non-ANSI layouts. That's pretty significant.Muirium wrote: ↑ Also: the alt layout crowd are a bit like me. They talk louder than their wallets! You'd think there's lots of them, but look at 7bit's sales figures for their kits. And the difficulty tipping their stuff on PMK. What sells best is whatever goes straight on a Filco.
Is it 'here, here' or 'hear, hear' when you agree with someone?Muirium wrote: ↑ANSI first, ANSI second, and ANSI third. Then ISO. Only after all of that do you start to consider the loonies!
I'm a bit more draconian than that even. I would leave off the "only after that" part and stop at ANSI + ISO. Unless one small kit of around a dozen keycaps could accomodate some significant percentage of the loonies, then I could get behind that as well I suppose.Muirium wrote: ↑ANSI first, ANSI second, and ANSI third. Then ISO. Only after all of that do you start to consider the loonies!