deskthority

thefarside wrote: ↑

22 Feb 2024, 21:30

…but continued free use…

Optimistic assumption! Nah, there would be fundraisers after a while and eventual flipping to someone else, I’m sure. You’re buying nothing. Literally.

Cherry https://www.kbdarchive.org/cherry/ IBM https://sharktastica.co.uk/ NMB https://wiki.vintkeys.ca Thanks for the links. Poking around the Cherry database, which is new to me, I see lots of specs laid out in infobox format for the keyboards but no context. It’s definitely a database but doesn’t...

2 cents more than I’ll be putting into Ellipse’s donation can.

AndyJ wrote: ↑

22 Feb 2024, 20:40

[sigh] Welcome to AndyLand, where nothing ever goes wrong... goes wrong... gones wrong...

Isn’t the whole point of putting a fiddly Linux PC inside a keyboard to give yourself circular, iterative, setup and maintenance headaches, though? Am I missing something?

Hey, I thought it was us users who eroded the value of Deskthority. You live, you learn…

I’m in between. I don’t think he’s evil but I do think he should cough up 100% of the funds to buy it. He’s made plenty of money off Deskthority, more than anyone else* ever has by orders of magnitude. 100% of the ownership ->100% of the investment. Fair’s fair. * And really, besides Ellipse and “$O...

True. Giving to a fundraiser is not to be mistaken for buying shares.

Yeah, I see those SA caps now. Familiar…

Your image shows up as a deleted attachment. Probably from a PM? You need to post it again. ;) Yeah, it's a nice board. I dig the switches and the Bluetooth, so it's proving to be a trooper. The beige case goes well with certain vintage sets, and it's built like a tank. Definitely a keeper. The only...

Still liking this keyboard, now with vintage Cherry goodness…



Well, for the most part.

Can't argue with Round 5, but…



I used this board to model all of them.

Phone pics are getting pretty good these days… 8BitDo in Cherry Doubeshots.jpg I got these Cherry doubleshots—drilled for a TrackPoint mod—from the DT Surprise Box way back in the day. 8BitDo in Cherry Doubeshots left.jpg I knew I should have bought more than one Tsangan kit in Wodan's GMK group buy...

And finally, the monster that is the greys: Round 5 grey oblique.jpg I surpassed myself with these… Round 5 grey plan.jpg Round 5 grey top.jpg Lots and lots of characterful function keys here. Round 5 grey 7 bit mode.jpg Now, this is where Round 4 SPH comes in. As you may recall, Round 4 Space Cadet...

These are perhaps my favourites. They really pop on this board. Round 5 black sunshine.jpg Here's the lot: Yes, there is even a numpad and an alternate arrow layer for that. Round 5 black plan.jpg Round 5 black top.jpg Round 5 black oblique.jpg I went to town on the cursors. Round 5 black cursors.jpg

Finished off the photography at last, first up: the whites. Round 5 white oblique.jpg Round 5 white plan.jpg Round 5 white profile.jpg Yes, I have the Colemak (and I think Dvorak) addons: Round 5 white dvorak.jpg I don't have white modifiers or a function row, but I do have a lot of monolegends: Rou...

Those are MUCH saner numbers than were rumoured before. Seems like we might be saved after all.

I’m more of a Ezekiel 4:15 man, myself. (No, not that Ezekiel.)

I'll check my iPhone's USB C cable to see if it's an "Apple A2795 China" as you said. (The pics I’m seeing in a web search suggest it could be.) It might work with my USB C modded AT, in which case it should work with all Xwhatsit-based controllers.

Plenty of people have drawn up their designs for new layouts, caps, row-profiles, keyboard cases, etc. right here in the DT workshop over the years. Often, they'll try and report back on some experiments of their own, including 3D printing and even small prototyping runs. Some of them subsequently a...

Well, I think it's fair to say that manufacturers aren't exactly waiting for people to come and pitch them on new layouts / key profiles and the like, in the hope to licence their ideas. Many of them try their own variations and ideas; indeed, there's more of that going on now than there was 10 or 2...

A weird but not super interesting situation. A fair conclusion to a thorough tale. :D It's always tempting to speculate just what they were smoking up to, back in the day, with the sheer variety of implementation details. But the end result is the end result. Unless it's the Alps vortex, of course…

I’m thinking this topic is in quite the wrong place. (Originally posted in DT Talk.) The Workshop, perhaps? Are you sure you want to start a production line for something new that nobody has even been asked about? And if you just want someone else to make it, what’s stopping you from reaching out to...

The “dumbest” USB C to C cables I have—which surely have no smarts at all—are all too smart for this. How dumb must it be?

The only way I can think of would be to hack the cable’s innards, which while very dumb, isn’t the kind of dumb you’re on about.

Blues! Round 5 blue plan.jpg Round 5 blue left plan.jpg Round 5 blue left.jpg The three columns of 2u caps on the right are all Point of Sale with two stems for sitting on two adjacent switches, for Tipro etc. Round 5 blue POS.jpg These are actually a combination of my Round 4 SPH set which I then t...

I remember photos of people using cling-film (American translation: saran wrap?) on their OG beamers, once they'd taken off the crumbled contamination shield and cleaned them up inside. It looked pretty good, as you could still see the metal parts through the transparent film. You might want to try ...

Not in red, certainly. Don't remember ordering a numpad in any colour, to be sure. If that's a dealbreaker I'll just clear my desk. It's dominated by caps!

Okay, starting with the Round 5 (Signature Plastics colour code: RAS) reds: Round 5 red plan.jpg That's the whole lot of them. Lots and lots of modifiers to choose from, arrow keys in different rows and legends, deep dished and regular F and J, a whole bunch of extra function keys, lots of choice fo...

Hey Vometia, nice to see you around again. Either you've changed timezone or came to DT to put your insomnia to some use. :lol: You've got me thinking way back to the eighties and my first experiences with computers, too, and one of them did indeed involve INSANELY ANNOYING RRRRRRRRRRRRREPEAT RATE>_...

I don't have much violet. 7bit added that after I was done with my main order. It's a long time ago, though, so laying out the caps properly is the only way to really know what I've got.

The caps are out of storage and strewn all over my desk. There are many kilos of them! I'll need to spend some hours arranging them into kits. Should have time at home for it this week. Here's just a preliminary peek: Round 5 Messy.jpg When µ hoards, he means it. :lol: Unplastered yellow walls? Yes,...

Roof repairs this weekend. I'll get back to you on kits / photos of the lot.