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clickityClackity wrote: ↑Switching keyboards/layouts and mice often helps me a ton... Not the best thing to know, kind of feeds the keyboard addiction. It's a vicious cycle.

Finally I have a solid argument to make to my wife when she asks me why I need all that old junk!

So today I was officially diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome, after having my nerve velocity and conductivity tested (not the most pleasant test, but yielding interesting data!). I’m starting with wearing wrist braces during sleep... I’d love to know what helped other people in the same situation...

90s PC with ergonomic keeb!
Post your keyboard-related ornaments!

What’s Zorin’s (Christopher Walken) keyboard in the 1985 Bond movie?

lueblue wrote: ↑Why do some keycaps look crooked?

Do you mean they’re slightly rotated? The Model F has pretty loose and wobbly caps by design, it’s not something that you feel while typing tho. Gotta use a ruler and straighten them out and make a better photo.

IBM RS/6000 function keypad https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3044323609

For larger Wiki edits something that integrates with Git would be great, so you can have a local copy of the wiki, edit stuff as required locally and with the editor you like and see the reaults and fix things. And then commit the whole change in one go. I can’t imagine the Wiki being prohibitively ...

Wow that PC-5 keyboards looks like new. I have a very similar one and it has yellowed like a lemon essentially.

Board cleaned up nice!

BTC 5100C 65% boards PS/2 from 1997, new in box. There’s a whole bunch. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3370972193

That is stunning!

Interim progress report! Insides (yuck): CA938821-CF43-44DB-9B63-6E3E4E7CE41F.jpeg Case before: 015B51D4-4158-4AD5-865B-9454A0BC8B79.jpeg Case after: F4242CCC-971E-47CF-A9C0-8B65A65992AD.jpeg I’ve finished washing and scrubbing the keycaps, as well get the stickers and residue of the caps. They’re n...

Dingster wrote: ↑Damn thats quite a lucky find. Good luck with the restoration!

Thanks! Discovered the + key works fine, just needed a bit of cleaning

Chyros wrote: ↑Nah man, that's just a medium-ass enter key, it's common on Zeniths and some other boards too .

Why aren’t these called “half-assed”, such a missed opportunity

Even shipping wasn’t bad considering the heft. And it works just fine, plugged it into the good old soarer’s and it came back to life! Only key that has issues is the + key on the numpad. It needs some real good TLC and deep cleaning. 28B339E0-31C7-4BF2-824D-D2B1687DFEC7.jpeg B152114D-9CA1-4170-A53B...

This is the strangest shape I’ve found so far. Why even bother with the tiny ass part (when you press this part of the key it binds so horribly that you can’t actually press the key)? This is from a TeleVideo 950 terminal keyboard. https://deskthority.net/wiki/TeleVideo_950 . Those Futaba switches a...

iGK64 with Kailh Box Royal and DSA Dolch

Package is in the mail!

I'm hoping my secret Santa is sending me a Beamspring board or two...

IBM 1401 A user’s manual by Johann Johannsson

Black Unicomp Model M 122-key Terminal Keyboard from 2010... with PS/2 connector? $40 shipped in US.
I don’t understand the listing, it says it’s NOT clicky? And PS/2 port?
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3586467793

Enter key is fine, and yeah it’s converted to USB. I’ve a bunch of projects but eventually I want to try to find some color keycaps to do some augmentation

What a beauty! Amazing project.

Lol, $4k eBay listing for a Beamspring. This is becoming the new Bitcoin. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F143040925703 No, it's just this seller in particular being a dick as they have done in the past just to troll us "keyboard kids". They have an i...

Lol, $4k eBay listing for a Beamspring. This is becoming the new Bitcoin. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3040925703

My unpopular opinion: I actually sort of like the sound of old Cherry MX Blues. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So does my mother. Then again, she's mostly deaf. I mean, it's well documented that you lose the ability to hear higher frequencies with age. So perhaps a key switch click that sounds terrible to a 20-year old...

I had a split BFO 9000 with blue Kailh low profile, and I really liked the keyfeel and ergonomic aspect, but I discovered that for my life I can’t type quickly on them, even after a month of using them. Great keyboard otherwise, you can write your firmware etc. Here is it compared to an Apple wirele...

I believe this Nimble NBK-2104 has Alps compatible caps (but not 100% sure), lots of colors https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3039392172

My unpopular opinion: I actually sort of like the sound of old Cherry MX Blues. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Another Beamspring up for auction https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 1650639847

Decently priced IBM Model M Battleship https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F273325299842 Oh? I thought that price was pretty standard for those, if not on the higher end. Perhaps I am mistaken? Well, they take offers, a good sign that you can haggle a lot...