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raoulduke-esq wrote: ↑

04 Apr 2021, 15:52

ddrfraser1 wrote: ↑

04 Apr 2021, 15:47

My BTC identifies as a beamspring. You got a problem with that?

Not in 2021 I don’t. #woke

Yet, in 2021, Wang keyboards are unacceptable.

Muirium wrote: ↑

04 Apr 2021, 13:23

Fancy sharing the draft? I think with a really good, community led design we could Group Buy something from him and make his life easier while he's making it.

Sure. PMing...

I don't see full sets for IBM on their Etsy storefront now. Did you place a custom order? How much flexibility do they have in cap colours and legend fonts? Did you design those sublegends yourself? I'm the kind of simpleton who prefers a webstore with multiple choice options so I can work this stu...

Get a couple of hundred people to sign up, and my guess is you’re talking a couple of hundred bucks per full set. Those molds are pricey. Things do get cheaper though at scale. You’d just need thousands of customers to really get going. And I mean customers. Not just “interested” window shoppers th...

Am I the only one here that's disturbed to see that thing has the proportions of a thin ISO Enter key?

But other than the sharper tactility and the slight weighting reduction, there honestly isn't a huge difference between an M and an F in my experience. The way people hyped it up to me made it seem like there was a gulf of quality difference between the two, and I have to disagree. Both are great s...

At this point, I think the only way that look might be topped would be with Ellipse's black-on-dark-gray caps.

clickykeyboards wrote: ↑

24 Mar 2021, 01:41

IBM industrial SSK IBM SSK Unicomp Mini M 6.jpg

Great looking, indeed.

That is indeed an Apple M0110A keyboard, with keycaps for (Apple's old version of the) Spanish layout. The switches are typical Alps SKCC cream, standard issue in M0110, M0120 and M0110A keyboards (the latter group until Mitsumi started making 'em). M0110A keyboards with this particular national lay...

Muirium wrote: ↑

23 Mar 2021, 10:53

But aren't they all "keebs" to the "keeb" of mind?

There's a reason the term "unwashed masses" exists.

This thing was made in 1999. There is no excuse to not have been aware of...

Findecanor wrote: ↑

22 Mar 2021, 21:59

My worst "keyboard" is the "Apple Smart Keyboard" that Apple sells for its iPad Pro.

That is NOT a keyboard. That is a keeb.

Bjerrk wrote: ↑

22 Mar 2021, 21:01

Muirium wrote: ↑

22 Mar 2021, 20:57

We’re humans.

That's exactly what a robot would say.

Actually, a robot would say "We're Humans."; it's the imperfections what makes us (ok, you guys) people.

Thorogrimm wrote: ↑

22 Mar 2021, 17:46

I recently bought a Data General keyboard with a Spanish(?) iso layout …

Every keycap in that layout corresponds to the Spanish (Spain) layout, except for the ;: key, which should be Ñ instead. Weird QC mistake there.

Handwritten. All this new-fangled technology ugh With quills, I would expect; pens are for the lazy younglings. I usually resort to petroglyphs, like in the good old viking days (when I had fewer grey hairs). "You never run out of stone!" is what my mum always said. She never did approve of that ne...

I find that I need to look at the keyboard ONLY when my fingers can't locate the F and J homing bumps (or recesses or whatever). I type differently on homing-less keyboards only in the sense that whenever I lose track of my position, I can't "reset" my hands' placement automatically and, instead, I ...

As a 100 year old boomer, I think we should close the website and go back to writing each other letters. Okay, but... handwritten ? Or can we still use those things called "word processors"? Handwritten. All this new-fangled technology ugh With quills, I would expect; pens are for the lazy younglin...

What I have for sale today is a tested and fully functional new old-stock NeXT Non-ADB Keyboard (ABP version) with Pine Black Alps and (what I believe to be) a Spanish keycap set (see the wiki page here for more info: wiki/NeXT ). This keyboard has, indeed, (Next's version of) the Spanish layout.

shallot wrote: ↑

22 Mar 2021, 02:42

As a 100 year old boomer, I think we should close the website and go back to writing each other letters.

Okay, but... handwritten? Or can we still use those things called "word processors"?

Indeed. And we would bloody well need plenty of them. The ideas I have for fonts! Speaking of which: what about amateur dyesub? I’ve got some wonderful caps from DecentKeyboards but the whole sets need some community input, so to speak. https://img1.etsystatic.com/027/0/9499294/il_570xN.612304045_o...

Outstanding restoration.

Just found a photo of this on eBay. This was the first computer I actually owned. I liked many aspects of it, but the keyboard was awful. https://www.ebay.de/itm/Original-Atari-400-Keyboard-Tastatur/143980610913?hash=item2185e9c561:g:WmoAAOSw55dgFqM1 The thing is, as flat membrane keyboards go, the...

I think that particular context matters a lot indeed! I've seen the same dynamic on Mac forums too. The more technical the community, the better it works. The more general access, the quicker it all goes to shit. All the more reason, then, to avoid said feature like the plague. DT (and to a lesser ...

I would have thought that the key between RGUI and RCTRL is the Menu ("APP") key, not a function key.

XMIT wrote: ↑

21 Mar 2021, 12:39

depletedvespene wrote: ↑

21 Mar 2021, 03:16

That Nissho the only JIS keyboard you might be interested in?

Probably, did you have something else in mind?

Actually...

XMIT wrote: ↑

21 Mar 2021, 12:39

I had been after an Alps plate spring IBM JIS board for ages and finally found one last year!

Dammit.

Also, don't forget internationalized modifier keys!

Of course, mention ISO and next step you're trying to meet German / French / Italian / Spanish needs. Uh-oh! Plus Portuguese, Swiss (both), Belgian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovenian/Croatian/Serbian (Latin), Greek, Russian (any and all of those ), Turkish (both), Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedis...

That Nissho the only JIS keyboard you might be interested in?

Count me in!

A natal astrological chart wouldn't hurt either, if you really aim for good sync with this thing. All I'll say is that, given the manufacturing date of my XXK, it was, like, its destiny to be filled with X keycaps. Turns out that wasn't really my idea, but instead it was the Universe fulfilling its...