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sharktastica wrote: ↑

17 Feb 2020, 21:27

It also originally had a Spanish layout

That explains the diacritics to the right of the letter P. Can we (ok, can I) have a picture of the keycaps you've replaced already?

(BTW, what is the mfg. date for the M?)

That one ... must have suffered a lot for it to look like that. How does it, and the others, look on the inside? I think the one you are referring to is the one in the silicon sleeve? It is like brand new underneath as it has never been directly touched by human fingers :) The one with the paper la...

That one... must have suffered a lot for it to look like that. How does it, and the others, look on the inside?

(I'll refrain from letting my envy win me over... for now)

Another question... given that you're not shy about making extra kits, and in order to minimize wastage, would it be within the realm of possibility to reduce the bottom row duplication in the base kit? Instead of having the base kit contain each of those keys (Shift, Ctrl, Alt, space, etc.) in both...

Latest update... putting them in a gallery https://imgur.com/a/qAivyO4 I don't want to be that guy (why do I even bother lying like this? :lol: ) , but... you have an error in the international kit. You've added all the necessary keys for Spanish (Latin America), except R3 {[ and R3 }] . You may wa...

Where I work now, I couldn't even dream of bringing a Model M keyboard. In fact, instead I got a modern MX-based keyboard modded by Mike to be as silent as possible, just so I could use a decent, if not great, keyboard without the cow orker next to me complaining about the noise. All was well and go...

Tatlyn wrote: ↑

31 Jan 2020, 18:22

depletedvespene wrote: ↑

31 Jan 2020, 18:16

Envy, envy, envy!

Enjoy your F AT!

Thanks!
Can I start calling it the Fat? lol

No. It's an FU+0020AT.

(also, look up the size of the F122 keyboards! )

Envy, envy, envy!

Enjoy your F AT!

or dont ask ,buy a new 10$ keyboard and replace it.both will be happy yup - definitely this. I concur. Replace that keyboard with a new, cheap one that kinda looks like it and take the good one with you. EVEN IF they notice, they will be happy to get "better" stuff. On the other hand, do you even w...

Khers wrote: ↑

24 Jan 2020, 17:46

Why would you censor the GOAT?

Some of us .

Where is the SPOILER tag when you need it?

BTW, what about Hangul?

matt3o wrote: ↑

19 Jan 2020, 13:18

you guys are never happy...

That's the core ability underneath all my job skills, and I'm damn good at it. Thank you very much.

I'll take a detailed look tonight, but for now things seem mostly fine. I specially dig the space bar kits. The only thing that calls my attention is that the Bleached kit needs one R3 and one R4 1U alpha-colored keycaps. You could get away with omitting the R3 keycap (because there's two of those t...

I map Control to that key position anyway. I think that if there should be a Caps Lock key at all, then it should be somewhere away from the main keys where it is not easily pressed. If so, then I think your idea would be more suitable. Indeed, moving Caps Lock to where Scroll Lock is in fullsize a...

Whenever discussing physical/logical layouts on keyboards and how to best tinker with them, common themes are how some keys aren't "used anymore", how "Num Lock should disappear" (true), "Scroll Lock is obsolete" (false), "Caps Lock takes valuable real state that would be better off as an Fn key" (t...

Welp, my oldest M keyboards are all from 1986. My F122 is from 1985, though, so that softens the envy factor.

(not that I wouldn't jump if a 13 November 1985 keyboard should show up!)

joebeazelman wrote: ↑

16 Jan 2020, 23:40

I have a 1987. Is that old?

Old, but not old-old.


Silver square? Then don't worry, it's First Division.

E TwentyNine wrote: ↑

16 Jan 2020, 21:40

Killerbee wrote: ↑

15 Jan 2020, 05:00

For a span of maybe a year in 2010 I owned the oldest model M in the world

You didn't. We've seen at least one example from 1984.

But was that an actual production-grade keyboard, or a prototype?

Yes, we do have a few original IBM model M spare key caps available. Alt, numpad delete, quote, numpad enter, and numpad 0 all in stock and ready to ship. https://clickykeyboards.com/product-category/original-ibm-model-m-replacement-key-caps/ (but no Esc, Ctrl or Pause/break) How about 1U numpad 0 ...

Myoth wrote: ↑

13 Jan 2020, 02:28

depletedvespene wrote: ↑

13 Jan 2020, 01:53

dogmantime wrote: ↑

13 Jan 2020, 01:48

stop hijacking this lads wtb thread you bumbling old farts

... because we're drowning the sales offers?

Because you're being condescending to a poor bloke that is trying to buy some keyboards.

... a poor bloke with a budget of five thousand euros.

dogmantime wrote: ↑

13 Jan 2020, 01:48

stop hijacking this lads wtb thread you bumbling old farts

... because we're drowning the sales offers?

Remember when five hundred bucks was considered too much to pay for an Unsaver? (this was at about the same time I got yelled at for spending 250 for an F122 in excellent shape, as well) That was back when the hobby was great, but was starting to get ridiculous. This hobby was taken over by greedy ...

Remember when five hundred bucks was considered too much to pay for an Unsaver? (this was at about the same time I got yelled at for spending 250 for an F122 in excellent shape, as well)

troglotype wrote: ↑

12 Jan 2020, 22:02

Wazrach wrote: ↑

12 Jan 2020, 15:44

could we please have another sound test?

*click*, *click*, *twannnnng*

Followed by "Gaaaah!!! Another one of those loud things?!?!"


(little do they know about the solenoidS)

As promised, I checked out again the international kit; those are the problems I found (assuming support for German (DE), Danish (DK), Spanish (Spain) (ES), Swedish/Finnish (SE+FI), Italian (IT), Norwegian (NO) and English (UK) (UK); Spanish (Latin America), both Portuguese layouts, and other nation...

kbdfr wrote: ↑

12 Jan 2020, 09:25

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Spoiler:

And now I hope for a fruitful debate

The main topic of it shall be, of course,

darkcruix wrote: ↑

12 Jan 2020, 00:53

The more I see the harder it gets to wait ...

And the more I wait, the harder it gets to see.

Nuum wrote: ↑

09 Jan 2020, 19:06

Mattr567 wrote: ↑

09 Jan 2020, 18:36

Patiently awaiting delivery

Seems like you're missing a 0 from your Numpad? Take an O keycap, looks almost identical!

Not "almost identical" enough, lemme tell you.