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wtzOlt wrote:What are the estimates on the shipping date?

See, this is why DT needs a :ROFL: smiley.

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What does bit-paired mean? It refers to how the characters are assigned to unshifted and shifted locations on the keyboard, mostly for the numeric keys. paired.png The bit-paired layout corresponds directly to ASCII codes. ascii.jpg This means that the shift key always toggles one bit of the unshif...

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The Apple II is bit-paired though, so it obviously wasn't that.

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Looks good. Note that "EMAIL" before your email is optional and I think the caps lock and enter keys on the SPH are slightly shorter than normal so there will be a slight gap on each side. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Enter and some versions of shift. You can add SPH/MRET which is full-width bu...

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It's not a trackball, and as a mouse substitute, it's not terribly useful — basically a giant trackpoint.

Support for these (originally) expensive devices is abysmal, and the reason I will never again buy any Logitech product.

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I think I have a 5c (and a gray card). Ping me in a week or so if no one else steps up.

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7bit wrote: Just drill a hole into the key caps.

ABS has a low melting point, so use the lowest possible drill speed. Best to drill undersize and finish the hole with a hand reamer. You can fill the hole with a drop of clear epoxy, very carefully.

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First used... Keytronic foam-and-foil on a Sol 20.
First owned... VIC-20.
First purchased separately from a computer... AEK II which a big-box store had mislabelled and priced as a an Apple Design Keyboard (a crappy rubber dome).

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If you take the first of the young ladies as the reference, all the others are extremely flat.

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ripster wrote:HD Porn is pretty demanding work.

That's why Ripster needs a good macro lens.

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For Canada, the limit is $20 for commercial goods, or $60 for gifts, eh? But my own experience is that they hardly ever bother with un-tracked packages, eh?

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cactux wrote:Who is going to feed them

They eat crumbs, dandruff, etc. that fall into the keyboard.

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Seems to be missing a keyboard.

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dirge wrote:I don't understand the need for rolling the data back.

MySQL developers think ACID is something you take before programming.

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hoggy wrote:Just spotted a kinesis advantage in men in black.

The first black Kinesis — painted that way by the prop department.

So, if you want Kinesis to produce a split contoured model, all you have to do is cut an Advantage in half and use it as a prop in a hit movie.

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Thinkpad Jr.

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Model F buckling spring switches bottom out immediately after the click — they are nothing like Selectric keys.

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Firefox because Pentadactyl.

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ripster wrote:
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Wait! You've posted the wrong picture — those are all Selectric I or II keys. You need a picture of the Selectric III with its cylindrical ISO9995-style keycaps, like this one shamelessly stolen from the internets, to show the match with the F.

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ripster wrote:So ANYHOO nobody can guess the origins of the Number Row Font? The Trick is to walk in the shoes of a IBM engineer working for this guy.

That's easy! You copy the new Selectric III keyboard.

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Dollar sign and the at sign (monkey tail - lol) have been around a LONG time. They were around, but not generally part of a normal font (a 'font' being a set of metal sorts of some typeface). The dollar sign is an exception, for American foundries, though I don't know whether one was originally cut...

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The normal consist of a metal or film font in the days before computer vector typefaces does not include all the characters that appear on a computer (or Wheelwriter) keyboard, so they had to roll their own.

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Kurrk wrote:It connects via a 4 pin Western plug to a computer (or whatever).

I'd say it almost certainly belongs to a terminal, since there is a LOCAL key, probably serial (BREAK) and ASCII (\| and `~ pairs). I don't recognize the name ADI at all, though.

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ripster wrote:Notice the fat lower left lip.

You didn't notice the variation in thickness of the circle? I'm appalled at your low standards.

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One of my APL keycaps has major flashing. A handful have minor flashing. I never noticed before today. I don't spend enough time looking at the gaps between keys.

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ripster wrote:In the typography world improper kerning is called shagging sheep. Signature Plastics loves to shag sheep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Goudy

You should repost your stuff in the typophile.com forums. They'd love it. (Hint: kerning and letterspacing are two different things.)

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7bit wrote:^^Yours is lame. I own an Ti SC-10 !

That's just a lame imitation of an HP 28s.

... which has keys with proper tactile feedback.

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Also, as a variaton on this, I had an idea to have one permanent magnet in the stem, opposing an electromagnet (fixed) in the body of the switch, the current to which could be adjusted, therefore adjusting the key resistance level. Ooh yeah, software-programmable tactile feedback. Also, when you po...

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I'd bet on 3 strain gauges.

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