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http://deskthority.net/w/images/8/88/Xerox_1109_%28type_2%29_--_inside.jpg The 15-pin connector is for the mouse. http://deskthority.net/w/images/a/a8/Xerox_1109_%28type_2%29_--_panel_exterior.jpg http://deskthority.net/w/images/e/e8/Xerox_1109_%28type_2%29_--_panel_interior.jpg http://deskthority....

They keycaps are single-shot.

The pale yellow switches used for the function keys are heavier than current MX Grey switches. Aside from the text, the only difference I can see between the Cherry marked and the HCP marked keys is as the corners where the two halves of the switch case join — the HCP-marked keys have plain rectangl...

The grey-green switches used for the Shift keys have approximately the same force as the current MX Grey. http://deskthority.net/w/images/c/c7/Xerox_1109_%28type_2%29_--_Cherry_MX_linear_grey_green.jpg http://deskthority.net/w/images/4/4b/Xerox_1109_%28type_2%29_--_Cherry_MX_linear_grey_green_top.jp...

The switches are interesting. I've posted this picture before, asking about them: http://deskthority.net/w/images/2/26/Xerox_1109_%28type_2%29_--_switches.jpg All the switches are linear. Some of the yellow switches (used for function keys) and all of the white switches (alphnumeric keys) have ‘HCP’...

Xerox Star is really the name of the office software package, the first commercial WIMP suite. In the first commercially available version, Xerox sold the same hardware (‘Dandelion’) with several different model numbers — 8010 for the Star system 1080 as a file server 1108 as a developer workstatio...

From the orange RETURN key, the ASCII control labels, and the BREAK / HERE IS / PAPER ADVANCE cluster, I'm sure this is originally for one of the many variants of the TI Silent 700 terminal. (The one here is not quite the same as the one in the ad — which is also shown in a small photo at CHM here —...

I think in total the board will be about 40mm max high, including the connector depth. If anybody has a Displaywriter and is able to tell me, please let me know. Otherwise I will modify it to use the 90° system. Borderline. It's difficult to measure exactly, since the case tapers forward slightly. ...

Volker Craig was not a huge company like IBM or Burroughs or HP, and the way this device is built somehow suggests a slight sense of improvisation, but I might be totally wrong. No, you're not wrong. Volker-Craig terminals were all over UW when I was there (note the address on the brochure), and th...

For now I have taken a risk and ordered six from a Canadian seller on eBay . He seems to have good feedback... hope they're legit chips! Never bought ICs from eBay before. I'm ordered from them in the past. Legit. This would be very cool to have (although not to everyone's tastes). Anybody have any...

I would bet on it belonging to an electronic typewriter, because of the keys along the left (the bottom two are letter and line spacing) and the display.

Ah, that's HP-HIL . HIL is complicated, like ADB or USB, not simple like PS/2. Bitsavers has a copy of the manual describing it, but HP used a pair of custom driver ICs for the physical layer, so building a modern converter would be more than a weekend project without one. A PS/2 version of the keyb...

I found both of these on some wallpaper website some time ago (not sure which one) so I wouldn't know who to give credit to. The original photos ( 1 , 2 ) are by Marcin Wichary . You should see an unobtrusive credit line in one corner, and (if your source didn't strip it) a Flickr URL in the EXIF d...

This is what I settled on for the bottom two rows of my Round 4 130% keyboard: Meta == Command == Windows
Alt == Option
Symbol == AltGr

I suppose I could have done it with 1.5u in the bottom row as well.

If you can't just switch it off, sell the BW Ultimate and buy a BW non-Ultimate, which is the same thing without backlighting.

Sigh. Some day I need to get back to work on the font (–s… having just noticed that the regular ‘G’ has a tail and this one doesn't).

7bit wrote:With some people having jumped the boat, I doubt somehow the prices will go down.

Names. Give us names. ⋲ ⋺

7bit wrote:... arcasm....

I like this word. I assume it is a combination of sarcasm and orgasm.

kint wrote:-->They disguise that you pay exactly the same by clever wording.

Oh, you pay more. The rates are horrendous. On top of that, for us Canadians, is that our customs often don't bother assessing regular mail (only tracked services where they get the details electronically).

Get a few dozen of these, and throw away the ALTs.

7bit wrote: No PayPal account in your last invoice? Do not pay!!!

Yay! Free keycaps!

Photo © Marcin Wichary; used under license Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic[/url]

WHERE ARE MY KEYCAPS, DID YOU SEND THEM YET?

John Fourth wrote:Is the grey in round 5 the same as the round 4 spherical?

No, folks decided they'd rather have a closer match to the old Honeywell terminal than a a match to the Round 4 keys.

Saved me from spending a fortune on grey add-ons, that did.

Argh! Prices up! Buy more F1TO24 or F13TO24, people. You don't all want to be stuck with just F1 to F12 like a common rubber-dome user, do you?!? Meanwhile… I'm now paying $26 `just` to get my hands on a 1.25 Caps Lock key which is `only` available in HONEY/MODEXTRA125. There has to be a better way....

Floating.Point wrote:It's such an epic shame about the BLANK/R3U200P/WHITE
They were going to be my space bars

If you can live with WA rather than WFK, Signature Plastics appear to have 18 in stock.

7bit wrote:both contain '|' which I use as a data field separator in tables!

But… but… ASCII already has its own perfectly good field separator character! Next thing you'll tell us you don't use the group separator, record separator, or unit separator either.

␃

Well, just call them ⅂RET and ⅃RET.

I've done this for the keycaps on three generations of Kinesis keyboard. The measuring gets a bit tedious. Drawings and measurements for cylindrical profiles represent the lowest point of the curve, and heights are relative to the bottom of the stem, not the bottom of the skirt. (I do have the offse...

7bit wrote:I think you can engrave kps into the winner's cup, no danger anybody else will pull ahead of him.

I'm pretty sure it is being judged on quality, not quantity.