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Nice line. Bet they didn't dare say that in their marketing! No joke, if they had they may have sold more. I don't have an issue with asymmetry in my IBM Model F and the mouse being hard to use because I type with my keyboard in my lap and my mouse mounted to my chair. For some reason, typing with ...

the_marsbar wrote: ↑I couldn't see myself travelling (I mean, going on an airplane with a keyboard in my bag) with anything bigger than a HHKB.

Hah, I travel with my F-122 everywhere...

vvp wrote: ↑Maybe even worth the troubles with tip changing just to use a different temperature.

It's worth it because I can switch tips and be at the new temperature faster than someone can change the temp of their adjustable iron.

They are literal 'hot swap'.

Spacecadet caps for Model M/F in spherical.

madrobby wrote: ↑This changes all the time, but right now I’m enjoying the AEK II

I'd place money that you're ever so slightly OCD.

How do I know? You aligned the curvature of the earth and the laptop precisely

I just saw this for the first time and perhaps this is a silly question... But why go to all the time, trouble, and cost to use Brass if it's just going to be hidden behind plastic? ... and someone who has used brass morse keys his entire life, you want that LOUD and PROUD(!) ... imagine a case made...

How do you set different temperature with such an iron? It looks like it always sets it to the curie point. If so then it is rather useless. Well better than an iron without any temperature regulation at all but still ... I'm going to answer your question with a different question and then answer i...

Unfortunately, the ROS chips are "read only storage" or proprietary PROMs that are not available. They were only available as swappable cards. There are TTL chips on some of the cards but they all have IBM part numbers to replace the normal TTL chip numbers (74 series, etc). IBM did not make it eas...

I checked the wiki, good news is that it's not that outdated and upgrade should be painless. Bad news is that we probably rely on an outdated phpbb auth plugin... hopefully it won't be too much pain... Quick talk about use-cases. I just came back from an almost 1 year break (real life, don't I know...

In mediawiki there is a flag for "this is a minor edit" which could be used for filtering,

What are some of the solder stations that use these heater-element-inside-tip design? I know only Hakko 950 and 951 and they cost almost 400€ in Germany. I love and adore the Metcal / Thermatronics method. Reasons: 0. It is physically impossible for them to overheat. 1. It's not controlled by a 'th...

andrewjoy wrote: ↑I dont even know why they banned leaded solder in products[/url]

Lead goes into landfill.
Water goes into landfill.
Lead goes into water supply.

hold on on that for a sec, I believe newer versions of mediawiki supports template directly (or via plugin). I have to check that. Can confirm. Also, tangentially related I'm apparently in the process of becoming the package maintainer for mediawiki in Nix so if you need to build a mediawiki instal...

Wodan wrote: ↑REAL MEN USE VIM ON ANDROID!

Real men use ed on a PDP/11 at 110 baud by tapping the TX line with their fingers and reading the RX line with their tongue.

The trick is to have an iron with a good thermal capacity. This. I use a metcal clone (thermaltronics) where the temperature is fixed by the tip that you use. That thing can dump so much energy into my work it should be tagged a thermonuclear device. Also - the type of end you use makes a massive d...

Sounds good but a standard key layout is a requirement. As someone who has done both sound and lighting in theatres and TV this confuses me. As long as you've planned your show, got all your cues correct, run your tech rehearsals properly you shouldn't really need more than forward, back, and a few...

I know, you made great beamspring switch boxes, but wouldn't be even more expensive than just buy the mouse? Also, I would gladly make a 3D model for printing it, but I can't without one to take the measurements. Sure, it may not make sense for your case at all given the expense of commercial 3D pr...

PlacaFromHell wrote: ↑ Sorry but I'm a man of injection moulding. At least to me, 3D printed hardware isn't that good.

Then you've been looking at the wrong 3D printers.

They 3D print structural airplane parts now.

It's all about the technology that's used.

wcass wrote: ↑My new Model F needs some new caps.

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See, I leave for a year and all kinds of fun things get built. Tell me about it wcass!

Muirium wrote: ↑The elves expect a fight…

Challenge accepted!

samuelcable wrote: ↑

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I snagged a f122 for cheap. easily the worst sounding keyboard ive had on my desk

Stone him, he's a witch!

Compgeke wrote: ↑Alright we’re now on the last day to sign up! You’ve got until 11:59 California time so better hurry up!

Well - it's past the time - hit it!

andrewjoy wrote: ↑ Your getting a HP/Compaq rubber dome and some coal !

Hah! I'm talking about who I want to get to send stuff to, for I have an evil plan if fortune smiles upon Brad and Janet.

andrea-i wrote: ↑Also, I'd love to see __red__ designing the pcb on video!

Alright then - I'll arrange a google hangout for it next week. I'll recreate the PCB that I did for @JP! 's beamdesk.

I know who I hope I get

I was looking for the qmk configuration but wasn't able to find it. Can you provide us a link?>

Looking forward to starting the stalking of my victim^Wgiftee...

Two reasons spring to mind: 1. These are terminal keyboards, so completely separate market to the XT. We still make terminal keyboards today. 2. In the time period you're referring to it was still "nobody got fired for buying IBM". They were back then and still are in their core businesses (in)famou...

I'm happy to not only design the PCB but also stream it and teach people how to make Model F and beamspring PCBs for themselves.

Now, if someone could solve the F-barrel problem, that would be great!@

There's more of a difference in sound and feel between F4704s, XTs, and F122s than most would believe..