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I'm super interested as I still have my four NOS full-size industrial shells (top+bottom) badly in need of badges since forever (got them years and years ago) plus a some regular Ms which would look great with these... but...

Paypal locked me out of my account and it's a complete SNAFU: I cannot ...

Interesting to know, since I often see right handed people using their right thumb when I'm using my left one.

Right-handed right-thumb. My left thumb's "home position" is on the modifier at the left of the spacebar (tiny spacebar on a HHKB Pro JP) and that modifier is the one I use the most ...

Hypersphere wrote: With this in mind, I am curious about what people here actually use most of the time.

HHKB Pro JP daily since two years or so. Before that I used an HHKB Pro 2.

Thought I had about 15 boards so I voted between "9 - 16" but I have between "17 - 32".

Let see: HHKB Pro JP (daily since two years I'd say), HHKB Pro 2 (ex-daily), real Industrial Model M (ex-ex-daily), 4 "fake" industrial Model Ms (with NOS shells), one Ambra M, one black M13, Cherry MX-5000 ISO ...

I'd love to get this 34" Dell UltraSharp U3415W, it's "only" € 707,34 right now. :o :( Nothing minimalist about it. 8-)

Very cool screen, my brother's got one: I had it at home to try it out: may replace my 27" with that 34" inch beauty. But I'd still use it with my HHKB Pro JP.

I'd argue that ...

After years of IBM Model Ms and having tried many different switches I eventually settled on Topre. Used an HHKB Pro 2 for one year or so and now since two years I'm using an HHKB Pro JP (for the smaller spacebar and hence more and easier to reach modifiers).

Only "mod" is a cool double-short "CODE ...

How good is a chair like Aeron for upkeep? I'd hate to spend that kind of money on a chair that I won't be able to clean effectively.

It is very easy to clean but it must be cleaned up semi-regularly or a lot of accumulates in the lower part of the chair.

I've got an Aeron since nearly 5 years ...

The esc key in the middle of the board is a bit weird, but otherwise, definitely gorgeous, yeah! Best of the three worlds!

Good catch! I didn't have much choice: the Ambra I bought had the 'H' key missing... The 'esc' key is free seen that I have the GH key: I could maybe put the 'esc' key ...

<Wonders how Ambra / industrial Model M combinations look, but has zero of either.>

Ah since you ask... My daily is an HHKB Pro JP but it's sitting next to an industrial Model M with Ambra keys hooked to a Raspberry Pi 2 (using a "blue cube" PS/2 / USB adapter). That one is a "fake" industrial ...

I would really appreciate the help identifying this thing since it's been boggling my mind ever since i found it.

No idea what this is is but my Ambra looks like yours, but without that mysterious logo in the upper right corner.

On the back the etiquette is nearly the same : mine is a tiny ...

You know you're dealing with veterans when you hear they have a whole stash of industrial shells from Unicomp. Those were the days! Didn't pickup any of their SSKs did you?

He he... Veteran is not a bad name: I bought my first Model M on eBay before Geek Hack even existed (so obviously before DT ...

seebart: Great grey case. What should you do to her? 8-)

not sure, the case is from webwit's duck boutique, the guts are from a 1390133 from 1987. I was planning on getting a industrial badge reproduced in a 3D printer. But I would need really exact measurements for that.

Nice... I have one ...

Someone on Usenet kept ending every single message he posted on comp.lang.java.programmer IIRC, even in the flamest flamewar, with "peace". I kinda like that.

Geez,

my post wasn't friendly enough I guess, so I'm editing it and removing any offending comment

<insert xkcd pic here about someone being wrong on the internet>

Peace, (and at least I learned something cool about the fake steve and his namaste !)

Very nice! I've got a very cool double-shot "CODE" key that fits my Topre keyboard: it's "green on black" and I use it as my ESC key. It comes from some old Brother typewriter I found on a flea market or something.

Found an old picture where I apparently mounted the 'Z' key with a Yen sign upside ...

The letters g and h surround the trackpoint and I changed to blank caps on my model m. Only one issue. The caps do not have the recessed grooves necessary to be used around the trackpoint.

Anyone have any ideas where I can get keycaps to fit?

I had the same issue: I've got lots of keycaps so I ...

I've got a Ti-99/4a (and I take it I'm not the only DTer to own a Ti-99/4a) here but I'm not really into Futaba switches.

Can I help? (say by taking pictures or something)

By the way it is "kinda" working: it has graphical display issues (characters being a bit weird) and these are problematic to ...

Aren't those special "bianca" or Hellgrau caps or whatever they're called in IBM-speak?

I don't know how they're called: the black keys comes from a black M13 and the white keys comes from an "Ambra" Model which I have here M (but AFAICT not all the Ambra Model Ms had white keys: some Ambra were ...

But what is the craze about having a slightly darker outer casing in the lovely SSK layout, that makes us KB nerds, go nuts?

Simple: imagine this, but with a SSK:

keyboardTwoIndustrialModelM.jpg

Resistance is futile: buy an industrial SSK or a NOS top industrial shell for your SSK (if anyone ...

ramnes wrote: My current watch, the Cheapo - Harold Navy/Red:



Simple, elegant, and humble (doesn't cost hundreds of euros).

Very nice on that strap!

Here are some watches that I'd like to have, but they're just too damn expensive:

Buy a used one, which is already "fully depreciated". Not many brand / model keep their value but the Rolex Submariner is a model that so many people like that you cannot really go wrong with it (now of course you ...

Here's a close-up of the switch of my calculator which Daniel asked for many months ago

Daniel Beardsmore wrote: Necro for great justice

Great necro!

Now I realize I never posted the close-up of the switch on my calculator: will do ASAP

I think OP asked which finger you use to hit which key on a regular staggered keyboard but I may totally mistaken on this so take the following with a grain of salt!

Even though 'b' might physically be in the middle of the two hands, I still hit it with my left hand. And for '6', where a case could ...

Couldn't you order Hasu's replacement programmable controller for the HHKB Pro2 and swap it in the day you're miniUSB dies?

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=12047.0

Don't know if it would help but there are several pictures in there that may give you ideas (including one where a miniUSB port is ...

And another question: I am the only one on earth who thinks the spacebar is ridiculous big?

No, you're not the only one...

And thankfully most people in the "ergo keyboard" movement do also apparently happen to think that small spacebars are great and that the thumbs should be used to hit other ...

Amazing. Thanks for posting this. Obviously the guy is a fan of the eighties : )

Respect and well done on one of the most succesfull Kickstarter crowdfunding ever: $200K in 48 hours is huge. Really huge. $300K already and 26 more days to go...

OK, now serious business: what's in there? I saw a ZX ...

I have never seen so many industrial Ms together! Nice collection you have there.

ah ah, you haven't seen Webwit's collection? It's much bigger than that and they're all real ones but as I wrote in my first message: I can't complain, it's a nice collection I have now... And I've been waiting for ...

Not anywhere near as impressive as Webwit's collection but I can't complain.

The four NOS shells are missing the IBM logo (I've got one real blue logo sticker but I don't like it much on an industrial) and three are missing the "numlock/capslock/scroll lock" sticker (I hope Unicomp still has these ...

What I did today: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbUWjTWIYAE33ak.jpg:large

Only made one catastrophic error when designing the PCB
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbUWqK4IcAAjaW7.jpg:large

What about the lonely key which would be under the palm? When I'm not typing I like to "rest" my palm... Wouldn ...