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There's nothing quite like a classic Windows Mouse Optical https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4RE3038710 I have one proudly going strong after around 12 years with no real maintenance. I should probably open and clean it one of these days, but I'd be worried about removing some of ...

That grime is NSFW, poor thing.

Beamer switches activate when the flyplate is close to the PCB, right? Perhaos that column of switches is either sitting too low in the plate or the PCB is raised there in some way? Aside from some short on the PCB, I suppose.

Wow, the holiest of grails for me. Such a nice size and a great layout! I love the stepped reverse Tab! (can't recall the technical term for that key on older ternimals to outdent)

In for 1 pebble

10/10 thread, I gotta document my rice

I think lots of mice are rear-bump? I don't have one to check currently, but Razer Krait/Diamondback as well as Mionix Avior I think are all rear-bump. Might just be my penchant for ambidextrous mice.

Even more excited for my purple sliders to arrive now

Excellent writeuo, and very well illustrated. I've not quite been able to put together the "longer slider" thing visually until now.

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Is this one of the two that y11971alex got for 75$ each? BTW, really fantastic job y11971alex ~

Perhaps? I'm not sure, but I believe it's this one photos-f62/ibm-3101-keyboard-arrived-t13874.html

Finally took some pics of this, been in my possession for some time now and it's my favorite work-from-home board. IBM 3727 powdercoated by y11971alex: http://i.imgur.com/9xtUyMf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ZyntBXF.jpg http://i.imgur.com/dPVl7qp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1ucL9Tg.jpg And one of my three-gene...

Cool, glad to hear there's been progress. Is there a test environment up somewhere with the converted DB and default theme? I'd be happy to help trying to get any of the DT functionality or themeing ported over.

The upgrade docs from 3.0 -> 3.2 state: "phpBB 3.2 is not compatible with 3.0 and most of the previous files will need to be removed prior to upgrading." So it sounds like we would basically need to re-write all of the styling and any custom plugins for 3.2. Styling doesn't sound very scary, so I su...

In an effort to get this moving, what version of phpBB are we on currently? Are the DT-specific customizations available anywhere? A first step to upgrading would probably be running the latest locally with the DT plugins and styling, I'd imagine. EDIT: Ahh I see in the previous page, 3.0.X is the c...

For the photo shoot setup, I really like that you put every keyboard on the same wooden board (from a school desk. Isn't it a school desk?) - it works really well for the viewer to put into perspective about the size and dimension. A coin won't do the work nor a mouse or mouse pad, while the whole ...

Anyone know what a good price would be for one of these boards? I recently sold one without a spot of rust, verified working but unconverted, for 200 USD and I think that was pretty fair. Add a fair amount for shipping on top of that. Less for rusty ones, sketchier ones in other ways, missing caps,...

Loathe *entirely*

Need some more pics Looks to be in great condition, the 5251 layout is quite nice -- ISO Return and a split right Shift, with a handy compact tenkey.

If only they had two modifiers to the left of the Spacebar, would really be killer on modern systems.

Just got one of these in the mail: http://www.ebay.com/itm/132137168251 WYSE make, date on the board looks to be '92, 2-3 big-label Black switches on it, they all feel quite nice and the thing came wrapped in plastic, looks quite new though the bumpers on the bottom look a little worn (might just be...

Now I want one for my SNES and N64. Woupd be great for older PC games too I'd imagine.

I've done a fair amount of "press for Esc, hold and press something else for Ctrl+something" bindings in Karabiner, so it might be possible to make every character a Fn key when held that exposes a layer of all of the decorated single characters. In Karabiner however this results in a noticeable del...

The traditional way in the community is to create an Interest Check via Google Forms, and see how many people sign up. Post it on Geekhack and Reddit. We can conjecture all day long but having some rough numbers of people that would throw money at a run of a set would probably be valuable, no? You'l...

I can't speak to any certainty as to what quantities might be desired, but I can say that the growing community over on reddit does have a strong appetite for spherical Cherry MX caps as evidenced by Signature Plastics' SA profile manufacturing timeline being filled for 2017, and the Model M is a hu...

I use my white 87U 55g at work quite frequently, and have really grown to enjoy it. As others have said, I think you would be very hard-pressed to find another modern retail keyboard of the same quality. I also like the styling quite a bit, some people have an extreme distaste for the huge bezel, bu...

Beautiful find! All the better when there's some scrambling and hectic research involved

Rad project! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with, creative IBM resto's are the best and we need more of them!

I think their PBT SA Ice Cap set was fairly well received, though it was explicitly stated as being a prototype run of 100 sets.

This kind of detail is super useful, thanks for documenting! What model beamspring is this? Based on the caps... White Whale Displaywriter? I ask because the stabilizers seem much more integrated than the ones on 5251 models which are very similar to Model M/F ones with plastic clips that attach to ...

Ah, of course! Case closed

My Burroughs's hall-effects are quite dirty as well. It suffers from extremely smooth dead-on keypresses, but atrociously rough off-center presses. The caps are truly beautiful on these things, though. How is the spacebar? Mine is particularly terrible, I suspect it has something to do with the met...