deskthority

7bit wrote:

woody wrote:Almost 75% elite.

Congrats to the 1000th post in this section:

Woohoo, I am 8bit now.

Number #1 Banned Expert on the Planet.

Almost 75% elite.

Finally some love for the Slimblade.

Slimblade rocks my world.

Popularis approved just because of the space invader.
I was right at GH that this would be a killer keycap.

The picture is the pad-printed model (PPAUS) and judging by the legends it's not used much. Perhaps 20 Euro to begin with, or much less in bulk. I don't really follow the keyboard market, so my opinion is not worth much.

attarian wrote:how much that one are worth? (i've got bunch of them)

NIB or used?

I am a commie. It was a locally produced keyboard (early 1980s), so it might as well be local design/clone.
Since getting access to mine could take close to a year, I will ask a friend to search his collection.

It could have been like this:
http://www.pravetz8.com/BulComputers_Pictures/Pravetz_82 ...

IIRC, the one I used had the reed switch vertically mounted.
I could still have one in possession in a remote location, or available in friend's collection.

IIRC, boring linear. But the subtle reed click was pleasant.

What are those?

HaaTa wrote:Other than http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~hisao/image/N860-9201.htm, have full Magnetic Reed Switch keyboards been seen in the wild?

Yes. I spent good parts of my childhood on Apple II clones with reed switch keyboards.

Best Compact - G84-4100.

8051 is such a luxury compared to the 8048.

Best original homebrew art - ClickClack. Even if I don't own any.

7bit wrote:How do I order?

By impressing the waitress.

Then, linear?

Examples at default compression level:

$ time tar cvfz openbox-3.5.0.tar.gz openbox-3.5.0
... (921591 bytes)
real 0m0.246s
user 0m0.247s
sys 0m0.010s


$ time tar cvfj openbox-3.5.0.tar.bz2 openbox-3.5.0
... (727310 bytes)
real 0m1.147s
user 0m1.130s
sys 0m0.030s


$ time 7z a openbox-3.5.0.7z ...

7zip is pretty good.

But what was the beer?

Yellow on blue, like my SYS key.

sixty wrote:I think the SP ones are not nearly as good as the Cherry ones. Which is of course related to the thickness. I see little reason to get SP ones, when the KBC ones are about 6 times cheaper and of a similar thickness and quality.

Do KBC have dyesub ones? I remember only lasered.

webwit wrote:;;; -*- Mode: Lisp; Base: 8; Package: User -*-

(defun complement (x)
(logxor 377 x))

Good grief, octal as default radix.

ripster wrote:Anybody notice that The Keyboard Company coasters are kinda obscene when turned upside down?

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?1690 ... post327473

Old countries suck. Don't ask how I know.

Why is Nigeria gray? They have few groupbuys here and there.

7bit wrote:This may take a while ...
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Burp.

itlnstln wrote:I like girls.

That's the spirit.

Dennis Ritchie passed away. Of course his influence has been much bigger than Steve Jobs' ever was, although CNN doesn't seem to run a story this time. His ideas and its descendants are probably running on every computer and cellphone on this planet.
One either understands the impact he made or ...