Name the New Model F Keyboard based on the IBM XT

[wcass]

I am planning on building and offering as a group-buy an "upgrade kit" for the IBM XT keyboard. If you have not already read about it in the DeskThority Workshop, the keyboard will be about 90% IBM XT but the key layout will be different. It will use the same case, controller, barrels, buckling springs, and hammers. Some keys will likely be replaced with Model M or new Unicomp keys, and inside the case is a Teensy with Soarer's code to make it USB. You can follow the progress here.

The time has come to select a name for the keyboard and I would like to hear your opinion. Please select up to two choices. You may change your selections while the poll is open. The poll will close July 16th.

[rodtang]

XT enhanced.

[kint]

was going to suggest XTend but then read your proposal:

...extant [ɛkˈstænt ˈɛkstənt] adj
1. still in existence; surviving
2. Archaic standing out
[from Latin exstāns standing out, from exstāre, from stāre to stand]...

perfectly fitting.
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[wcass]

The logo might incorporate one of the "living fosils" such as the Horseshoe crab, Tuatara, or Platypus.

[Findecanor]

I thought of suggesting "neXT" myself, but it is too close to the "NeXT" computer, whose name indeed was written that way.

[ripster]

I don't anthropomorphize my keyboards. However I have nicknames for all my ClickClacks. AgentSkully. IceT. Etc...

I voted NXT. Or nXT.

[Icarium]

Just call it F upgrade kit, everybody will immediately know what it is and we can call it FUK for short.

[off]

Ica with the win.

[webwit]

I like it although if people start using the fuk word, then for example if someone says, I want a fuk, then someone else will wonder what the fuk is.

[ripster]

Could call it biATch.

[Icarium]

Yeah, and DT will end up in corporate internet filters just like sixty's website at http://keyboardporn.com/ . Sad world.

[JBert]

If I am allowed to be pedantic, it's actually not an XT keyboard - the keyboard itself says "IBM Personal Computer" as it was made for the original PC and happened to keep working for the PC XT.

[off]

in that case:
mFPCm

though I'd definitely love people going 'what is the fuk', makes everyone seem illitterate(sp xD) ^^

[dorkvader]

XT is the new Coelacanth: Forgotten about for a long time only to be found alive and well not so far away.

Or at least, we will make it that.
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jbert: The current proposal (As I understand it) is to use the original controller in conjunction with a teensy, so it'll still use the XT protocol, albeit over a smaller distance.

[JBert]

jbert: The current proposal (As I understand it) is to use the original controller in conjunction with a teensy, so it'll still use the XT protocol, albeit over a smaller distance.

My point was that "XT protocol" is a misnomer as well - it's actually IBM PC protocol.

[wcass]

This upgrade kit is specifically for the keyboard that came with the IBM model 5160. It may work with the keyboard that came with the 5150 - I may have to test that. </wink>

[Soarer]

'Personal Computer' - what a crappy name; so boring and ambiguous. Anyway, it'll never catch on.