deskthority

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.

XT enhanced.

was going to suggest XTend but then read your proposal:

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

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

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

I voted NXT. Or nXT.

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

Ica with the win.

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.

Could call it biATch.

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

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.

in that case:
mFPCm

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

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.

dorkvader wrote: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.

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>

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