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ripster wrote:What is a flippy?

A “flippy” is a 5¼" single-sided floppy that has had an extra notch cut out opposite the write-enable notch so that it can be put in the drive upside down to use the reverse side.

captain wrote:How will the SPH sets work on a Filco TKL? I'm concerned about the profile of the set. (e.g. are all SPH just flat, or do they use SigPlast's DCS family profile?) I assume that all the other sets come in the DCS family profile, right?

SPH are SA profile.

Minskleip wrote:Now I'm only looking for a domain name; I'll host it myself (it'll only be accessible by me).

Why do you even need your own domain, then? (The entertainment cartel hasn't heard of technical details like ‘IP addresses’, so they have no plan to take those away from you.)

Interesting it has no Control key or other modifiers except for Shift. This derives from PARC Smalltalk/Star GUI philosophy. As described in The Smalltalk Environment by Larry Tesler in the August 1981 issue of BYTE, The “shift lock” key and analogous commands like “bold shift” and “underline shift...

What keyboard is that? :shock: It belongs to my Xerox 1109 Lisp workstation, better known for the version without an FPU card sold with office software, the Xerox 8010 "Star". Intially (1981) these were sold with a thick, long-stem keyboard with spherical caps. Some time between then and 1985, when...

Perhaps someone knowledgeable here can comment on this keyboard of mine with its black (latching linear), white (linear), grey-green (firm linear), and pale yellow (ultra-firm linear) switches.

7bit wrote:I could try out Gnash: debian.org/Flash.

You're not running IRIX? For shame!

Icarium wrote:When's the deadline for other Phantom orders?

Phantom (switches, PCBs, etc.) deadline is today. Keycap deadline is as yet unknown.

I like the spherical style the most, but there is one thing that I don't like: the enter and shift keys are less wide than in all the other sets, as if they do not fit. why is that? SP doesn't have molds for the correct sizes in spherical profile. For the Return key, you can order SPH/MRET, which i...

7bit wrote:For your experiments you should have used deskthority.net geekhack.org instrad!

Fixed. (It's running vBulletin, so anyone can use it for experiments.)

Auction it to support DT hosting!

Ah, I have at least one keyboard with those switches.

Spherical TKL order sent. Btw, why are both shifts and enter key a bit shorter on the SPH sets? SP does not have molds in the correct sizes in the spherical style. SAFamily.png 7bit has said there will (may?) be a full-length RETURN available in a different finish. I personally plan to use "reverse...

I believe that no project can succeed without a blood sacrifice.

I could instead believe that I'm just too stupid to learn to cut away from myself, but I'd prefer not to.

Small text LCD displays (16 or 20 columns by 2 lines) are readily available under $5, and bitmap displays under $10. These use a parallel interface, generally requiring 11 pins (though many have a 6-pin, 4-bit option), so you'd need a Teensy++ if you are decoding a large matrix rather than going fro...

About sphericals: Is the bottom/modifier row r3 or r4? The wiki says 4 but sp 3 Can someone elaborate this pls mixed that one up.. it's only the spacebar.. Bild.jpg From that chart you see that some of the row 4 keys, like some of the shifts and 1.25u modifiers, are not available as row 4 keys, and...

About sphericals: Is the bottom/modifier row r3 or r4? The wiki says 4 but sp 3 Can someone elaborate this pls I think 7bit is taking the day off, since I asked the same in The Other Place last night. (I don't think a group buy organizer should be allowed any breaks, since it's not like we can cut ...

7bit wrote:

mintberryminuscrunch wrote:7Bit
Can you add blank sphericals ?

Will be added later ...

But the wiki has had BLANKSPH since yesterday...

ripster wrote:If HaaTa is going to nominate himself I'm going to nominate myself for the Vintage Switch Wiki - the only one on the InterToobs.

I can't find the entires there for either the magnetic or the optical switches that HaaTa displayed recently.

So it's part of the A-Series then? I doubt it was specific to the A-series, but it looks like it was specific to Burroughs mainframes, not a simple full-duplex ASCII terminal. I think it has to be from an ET-1100 / ET-1200 terminal. It's not from an earlier (Burroughs TD830, MT983) or later (Unisys...

You wouldn't know which Burroughs machine my optical keyboard is from, would you? No idea. I agree it's from the Burroughs lineage, rather than Convergent or Sperry, but I don't know much about their systems. Does it have a date on it (or date codes on the ICs)? I'd guess mid-80s. The closest in ap...

More pics?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathteacherguy/3251520099
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathteacherguy/3251631829
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathteacherguy/3252343218
and possibly others in the set.

Which company manufactured the "S8344" microcontroller? The S is the logo of Signetics, best know for the 555. There's an Intel 8344, which is an 8051 variant with an on-board high speed serial controller. If this is a second-sourced i8344, there would have to be a ROM connected to the address/data...

HaaTa wrote:Another hint. Company created the first computer GUI.

Ivan Sutherland was a PhD student, not a company.

webwit wrote:Zorin seems to be using a Philips keyboard.

Seems to be bottoming out a little.

ripster wrote:I'm bored.

I'm not. I still want to know what the keyboard belongs to, since t№1KEotP can't tell me.

When is the next round of 20 questions?

I have a keyboard at home. The switches are contactless, but not capacitive, optical, or Hall effect.

cactux wrote:I am guessing that this board was buit by Burroughs Corporation/Unisys

Ah! I was trying to remember who else besides DG and Tek used light blue highlights.

I'll bet you're right.

Findecanor wrote:Is the <Home> key supposed to have the legend "Begin"?

I thought that was just a Windowsism, where ‘Home’ usually gets a beginning-of-line function.