deskthority

The objective reason behind my switch to mechanicals was durability/reliability (over cheap membrane keyboards). I mean, that's what led me to look at mechanical keyboards in the first place. But then I discovered the custom keycap options and my whole set of priorities changed. For me, a keyboard i...

Uni-color schemes can be elegant if some design thought it put behind it (e.g., Apple's Snow White design scheme). But then NeXT gave the world all-black machines, including the keyboard, and the rest of the world saw it and decided it was so kewl that it had to become the next, monotonous de facto ...

I believe the keycap assignments correspond to one of the Sindarin fonts out there.

The heavy DOF makes it real hard to see and appreciate those Sindarin keycaps.

The only downside to Cherry Silent Reds, as I've discovered on a number of boards I have with them, is that by eliminating nearly all the bottom-out and upstroke noise, the shuff-shuff-shuff sound of slider friction suddenly becomes very apparent. I'm sure a lot of folks don't mind that sound, but i...

What's the difference between the keycaps produced in round 1 and round 2?

Vintage: Honeywell sphericals, IBM beamspring sphericals.

Modern: SA, MT3.

Well done, madrobby!

Thank you for bringing Deskthority into the world, webwit! You have been much appreciated.

Congrats to matt3o! I'm sure Deskthority will flourish under his leadership.

I believe the way 7bit prefers to handle this is for you to send a MISSING message to the 7bot with the key that is missing (e.g., MISSING SYMBOLS/R1/RED/IV).

Sure, but 99.9% of the time, when someone doesn't explicitly specify otherwise, I'd say the normal TAB keycap can be safely assumed.

Most of that noise is bottom-out impact noise, yes?

Tab key: 1.5u row 2.

Is this a trick question?

Nice NorbaTouch board! I can speak to their very high quality as I own three of them myself.

BTW, where did you get that acrylic dust cover? Do they make them for full size keyboards too?

Such a fascinating project! I can't wait to read the next update. Well done, Bass!

Very cool. As usual, the lovely sound of the main keys is offset by the ugly sound of the spacebar, which sounds like a stapler in action every time it is hit. Seems to be a common issue with vintage keyboards of that era. BTW, the "weird sub-legends" on the alphas are the ASCII control code symbols...

I just love the deep (bottom out) sound you get from keyboards like that. That sound was what I was hoping to achieve when I first ventured into mech keyboards three years ago and began the quest to put together a modern linear mech board for myself. Little did I realize at the time that sound like ...

What the shipping times for the violettcream? Impossible to determine. They have to be manufactured first. SP removed SA production estimates from their site, but it should be around 9ish months. Excludes shipping and sorting by 7bit. Sure, but a Round 7 production slot will slip with every week/mo...

lazyfart wrote: ↑What the shipping times for the violettcream?

Impossible to determine. They have to be manufactured first.

Is there any way to clean up that spacebar rattle? If not for that, I'd say that keyboard sounds really good!

Yeah, I worked with Charles Anthony (and the rest of the dps8 emulation crew) to get the Multics emulator working, though my contributions were pretty minimal and consisted mostly of testing the software. I have an emulated Multics up and running on a Linux VM running under Hyper-V on my Win10 machi...

Fonts like SP's Gorton Modified do look good on spherical keycaps, I agree, especially to convey that vintage vibe. However, I also like the use of DIN 1451 Mittelschrift on this set. It has an attractive, modern aesthetic and is very readable.

Laptop keyboards are the worst. It is a tragedy that they've somehow become so "stylish" that they've infected the desktop world as well (just look at Apple's keyboards today). The only thing worse than a laptop keyboard is a pane of glass.

It takes about two weeks for packages to reach me here in Los Angeles. Which is slightly annoying since Signature Plastics is in the same time zone as me, and only a 30 minute drive from my mom's house.

Alponj78 wrote: ↑Zslane: where does 7bit ship from? Somewhere in US?

Berlin, Germany.

long_qt_pie wrote: ↑If we paid for tracking, how do we get it? Thanks 7bit

At some point after 7bit ships your package, you will get a new invoice with the tracking number at the top.

Hey matt3o! since the original inspiration for the set was the beamspring profile, why not using the chance of double shot to replicate the classic two tone dark grey with white legends? Everyone who missed out on 7bit's HONEY and HONEYB keycap sets would surely appreciate getting another crack at ...

I didn't design any of the Round 5/6 stuff (Honeywell, Space Cadet). But I did design Dasher/Dancer (and G20 Semiotic, and Mercury Rocketeer).

I can't image what vintage keyboard used to have violet and cream keycaps. I don't think 7bit got the idea from another keyboard or keycap set. The idea may have come from suggestions sent to him during the Round 6 IC all those years ago.

Leftovers are shipped whenever 7bit gets around to it. It could take a few days, or a few months. There's really no way to know. You just have to simply wait (and wait, and wait), and then one day your keycaps magically arrive.