deskthority

seebart wrote: ↑I love how many people here feel the urge to share their voting intent?!? No, you do not have to tell us. You may of course, but why? Just vote.

Show support and convince others? Make unsupported claims and let others correct you? It might or might not work.

@kbdfr: what do you suggest the DTA team should do at this point? My suggestion would be: if he wins, be consequent and embrace it, give him the award for his merits on building and maintaining the subreddit and its "wiki" in the years after the ban, lift his ban on DT, and see where this gets us an...

Yes, as Mu said (Hi there Mu, nice to see you here!), mine worked without a problem with a standard Model M controller. It's a 1392980, too, and it definitely has a standard matrix.

Now it's running with a Teensy++ with TMK / Bluetooth, so I looked at the matrix pretty closely...

rominronin wrote: ↑@zslane - Did you mix black/white on blue key combination deliberately?

I think I can answer that with this photo:



http://www.rcsri.org/collection/symbolics-keyboards/

Very nice zslane!

HYPE!

Ordered.

How long will it be open?

I have a few German 5251s left from the Dresden source if someone's still looking for a relatively cheap beamspring board that takes some work. I will post in the marketplace in the next days.

Yes, don't buy this though, it's the most ridiculous thing IRL:

https://www.amazon.de/System-S-Spiralka ... d_cp_107_0

002's principle of only voting for what you have used yourself is a very sane one, I'm adhering to it, too, and probably many voters do. Which makes it hard for blue Alps or beamsprings.

It's a hype circle unfortunately. I don't know what's great about stock MX Clears, for me they are only good after you change the springs.

MX Browns on the other hand were bashed by Mu for years on DT ...

Good choice! I'm a developer, too, and MX browns are my favorite MX switch for work. They are almost linear, with a very subtle but sufficient tactility, and the lttle force that you need makes them less loud than other mechanical switches once you get used to them.

mike52787 wrote: ↑The 87 ssk I have is a 1391472, and the only 2 piece caps on it are the f and j caps with the homing bars.

Yes, same for my 1392980 terminal SSK.

EDIT: Sorry, I just found out about the Massdrop GB. I don't follow Massdrop, and actually thought the GB for this was in the future. I understand better now why this GB could warrant an award for you this year, XMIT, namely for your contribution to the tech and the GB. I still have my problems with...

Brilliant writing once again for the final votes this year! Had a lot of fun reading it.

I agree about the probable awesomeness of the hall effect keyboard, but if we award them, imo this innovation wingnut should go to the company ACE PAD TECH who makes them, not to the first westerner who 'discovered' them, which seems a bit 14th century. I know - I should have nominated them.

Not voting for ripster, but I admit a perverse joy of anxiousness on the prospect of seeing on reddit the first cutaway photos of the innards of a golden wingnut.

Don't tell lurkers about the great voter prices!

Friends are OK.

Beyondsix wrote: ↑

Nice new perspective, I like it. I think we never had a stabilizer picture.

I did.

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(But I also have another one with pulsed switches.)

I didn't want to offend you, I just didn't understand your first answer to me. Of course I know that we don't have a modern Hall effect controller yet! Your 3277 keyboard, regardless of of whether it was made by IBM or not (I didn't know it was made by IBM) should work with the same external protoco...

Yes, in which I posted, too. Seebart is talking to the anonymous silent reader I guess.

I think these were keyboards for some kind of industrial production machines originally. Which is also why they are so rare.

Wow, that's a cool price.

Yes, I remember reading that, compgeke posted it here: https://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/ibm-3278-beamspring-to-ps-2-controller-t6828.html?hilit=ibmsystem3 It's a great project and might be an alternative if you can live with only three modifiers (e.g. you only want the keyboard to work for demns...

I'd like to nominate the "Freewrite" mechanical keyboard-based writing machine . It's a writing tool for typewriter nostalgics so reduced that it doesn't even need cursor keys. Backspace is more than Hemingway had, so it should be enough for any writer! Together with a PostIt-sized ePaper display o...

zslane wrote: ↑Not my photo, but this is what they look like:

Classy. I didn't know keyboards had a key for "buoy".

J'ai reçu un colis très lourd de la France aujourd'hui.

Hey, this was probably considered totally rad back in the 80s/early nineties! Watch a few Amiga demos ... I remember how we all learned how to airbrush back then in summer camp and made unbelievably ugly stuff...

I'm sure this will totally come back in a few years ...

The Amazon Echo came out this fall in two new languages, namely British English and German. OK, it's been around in the U.S. for a little bit longer, but Germany happens to be the country where I live... It's mainly an array of seven microphones that can cover a whole room, together with a nice Blue...

You're right, I wrote this badly.

I nominate this awe-inspiring NASA keyboard and control panel found by snuci, and I ask voters to please consider that the wingnut for this great discovery would go to a very deserving person.

I nominate snuci for all of his finds this year. He always takes great photos, too.

The one that I liked the most was this one, but there were many others.

lolpes here: