deskthority

Ho ho holy moley! Santa's way too generous. I'd feel so guilty now if I'd taken part and given what I could bear to part with when others were getting hefty loot like that!

Good idea. In the meantime, a recent acquisition of mine—the Kailh Box White switch-equipped 8BitDo retro keyboard —is my tip for a taste of sincerely clicky action for a very fair price. It's my first Kailh board and even as a Model F snob I find its switches quite commendable. It's closer to blue ...

Peter was active here many years ago, and vanished without a trace, leaving customers without their stuff as I recall. Anyway, yes, you can definitely mix and match M and F caps: including Ellipse's creations, which are significantly better than Unicomp's modern production quality. Single unit alpha...

Testing switches is a good idea. If hotswap was a thing 10 years ago, when I was where you are now, I'd have definitely tried it. Mind, all there was back then were the various shades of MX. I was a bit early for all that stuff. I've had quite a few Model Fs and Ms. I’m very much on the F >> M end o...

What makes you hanker after the loudest and greatest of all clicks now? Your initial focus on reds and browns warns me you BETTER KNOW WHAT YOUR IN FOR! The first time you meet Model F will be an eye opener!

That was quite the sellout, wasn't it? Alps Spartacus!

He covers the software in the vid. Seems excruciating to me! :lol: As for why all keyboard configuration apps are bad, my guess is it's a combination of: These are hardware vendors: software's not their jam Keyboards are actually quite parallel devices: even the simplest per-key setting is about a h...

000111Ain wrote: ↑

21 Dec 2023, 10:55

So I want to know the price, do I have to buy all of these 1800 pieces, or can I buy some in small quantities？

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coder wrote: ↑

21 Dec 2023, 09:01

Ok, but what is the answer that the site is looking for? HHKB? Happy Hacking Keyboard?

No, it's noT: loOk perhaPs a little closeR at the quEstion.

I did not know this existed. Thanks for that.

https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes.html

Specifically:

https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/s ... l#LEDmanip

One of these? https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/32/40/product-83240.jpg https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/37545/Zenith-TurboSport-386/ Which protocol are you using: XT or AT? Note: I do *not* mean which shape of connector, as DIN 5 can be both. XT is strictly monodirect...

When I saw this thread title I presumed it was still another complaint about DT's completely broken confirmation email system.

That's a conversion job as much a custom keyboard. A conversion is better, as you get the truly vintage vibe from everything you keep. Including, typically, the original switches.

If anyone can find a use for a thousand non-MX compatible switches, though, it's Lispnick.

The switch archivists might be interested in a handful, but I doubt anyone's making custom boards from these.

I've a G80-3000 lying spare NIB, if it helps…



I don't know Cherry well enough to know if that cut-out is exactly what you're looking for.

Wash your hands, Mr. Hewes!

Those pale blue symbol keys are very, very cool. A mix of Runes and hidden print symbols? They're like something an AI would dream up, but I don't think we're quite there yet.

DT's back up? It truly is a Christmas Miracle!

What firmware is it running now? Xwhatsit’s hardware always has that fallback reset switch to force it into DFU for a reflash. A particular advantage of QMK is its support for Pandrew’s “ util ” for checking signal levels, which is what I’d give a shot in your case. https://deskthority.net/download/...

Karabiner never stopped complaining about the system extension not being enabled, even though EventViewer said it was activated. And, needless to say, my keyboard(s) never synchronized with each other. Karabiner prime (to give it name) will be the truth: the extension is clearly not active. Annoyin...

They are relegendable caps of some sort. Uniform row profile too. They certainly don't look like any of these, as they have a border around the paper insert instead of running edge to edge: https://deskthority.net/wiki/images/b/bc/Relegendables-1.jpg The T key in particular has the right lighting to...

Sounds like all of your issues stem from this keyboard actually showing up to the host as two separate physical keyboards you just happen to be typing on simultaneously. One Shift doesn't uppercase characters on the other, and sometimes one half will even lag behind its partner. That's two keyboards...

It’s much too pretty to toss out… all over again.

Another few things come to mind I’d be just as reluctant to cut in half, myself! I’m not one of those solenoid nutters—there’s always someone more extreme, right?—but I love me the sweet sharp sound of solid Model F. It’s keyboard heavy metal. Mind, when it comes to Topre I’m all about the damping ,...

I think of you and him as the left and right hands who wrote the wiki, down in deepest Ahruukar…

No need to worry about linking to great content. Keep us appraised!

Cyber Junkie wrote: ↑

03 Aug 2023, 11:56

What software is that? Looks no nonsense! I dig the BIOS aesthetic.

30g sounds good, as it's always annoying to have to buy too much of something; as you'll know from your full KILO of the stuff. But the price is a bit teeth-baring. 1000 ÷ 30 = 33.3333 × $34 = $1133.33 of lube you think you've got there? Priced right, all 30 or so portions of the stuff seems quite l...

I'd like some. All Alps-preservationists (which is to say all Alps owners!) should get themselves some of the stuff.

Here's how I fixed my PC to Mac modifier key chording problem mentioned here . Several things were going sideways, so I'll explain them for my later self as much as anyone. :geek: When swapping around modifiers, Karabiner gets tricky in the "from": condition. Quite unintuitively, you must include th...

Findecanor wrote: ↑

05 Dec 2023, 20:43

There were lots of promises of PBT keycaps in that thread, but many delays. Last update was about a year ago.

Pretty recent by their standards!

apastuszak wrote: ↑

05 Dec 2023, 23:35

I'm thinking Matias is a pretty small outfit.

Yup.

You're looking for Alps-mount caps specifically, I presume?