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duckfarts
Jul 2, 2010

~ shameful ~





Soiled Meat
rad but i dont like the tenkey placement - you gotta float your hand over it to use it without bashing other keys

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Stick Insect
Oct 24, 2010

My enemies are many.

My equals are none.
That enter key looks like it's aimed at touch typists who forget which side of the keyboard it's on.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Stick Insect posted:

That enter key looks like it's aimed at touch typists who forget which side of the keyboard it's on.

its so u can hammer it with ur thumb while ur blasting out numpad

DiggityDoink
Dec 9, 2007

Smythe posted:

its so u can hammer it with ur thumb while ur blasting out numpad

more like just hammer punch the keyboard

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
the best part about my mechy KB is hammering the spacebar for an epic noise. BLAM BLAM BLAM. proiblem is my spacebar switch is dying and makes double, trible, and sometimes quadrouple spaces. RIP

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
u can just buy a new cherry clear green brown mx pro mlg keyswitch thoguh right

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

bobbilljim posted:

u can just buy a new cherry clear green brown mx pro mlg keyswitch thoguh right

nedd desolder && resoilder i think ................................... epic

Stick Insect
Oct 24, 2010

My enemies are many.

My equals are none.

Smythe posted:

its so u can hammer it with ur thumb while ur blasting out numpad

Now I see how much that numpad layout is messed up too. Incredible.

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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for reals i'm getting sympathetic carpal tunnel just looking at that

DiggityDoink
Dec 9, 2007

surebet posted:

for reals i'm getting sympathetic carpal tunnel just looking at that

i wonder if theres some special nkro that makes it so if you rest your entire arm on the keyboard the numpad still works

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

DiggityDoink posted:

i wonder if theres some special nkro that makes it so if you rest your entire arm on the keyboard the numpad still works

arm detection like palm detection on a trackpad

DOG AT THE DOOR
Aug 29, 2007

bwha
i put new keycaps on my Filco the other day

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
fuckin sweet bro

DOG AT THE DOOR
Aug 29, 2007

bwha

echinopsis posted:

fuckin sweet bro

thanks. its good, even though they forgot to ship the spacebar with it

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

DOG AT THE DOOR posted:

i put new keycaps on my Filco the other day



echinopsis posted:

fuckin sweet bro

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

(_!_)
Buglord
that ^ is still huge

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
the aspergers run strong within you son

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

(_!_)
Buglord
I'm the neon genesis evangelion button

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Symbolic Butt posted:

I'm the neon genesis evangelion button

trap sprung

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?
went to Weird Stuff after goonburger yesterday and acquired another Apple Extended Keyboard II

the last one I got there was $5, this one was $50, they're starting to recognize their value

but I'm so pleased, it's another made-in-Japan model with Mitsumi key switches so it has that perfect feel

not sure whether to use it as a backup for my work daily driver, or to switch from the USA/ALPS model I have at home (after cleaning it up, of course, it's pretty grimy)

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
sick thrifting itt

mad.radhu
Jan 8, 2006




Fun Shoe
nnnnnngh

http://imgur.com/a/xhRPC

pram
Jun 10, 2001
not a fan of that color scheme but if its your gratz!

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
what if I want a CHEAP mechanical keyboard

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

pram
Jun 10, 2001

lol

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

Silver Alicorn posted:

what if I want a CHEAP mechanical keyboard

dumpster dive until u find a model m then put it thru the dishwasher

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Silver Alicorn posted:

what if I want a CHEAP mechanical keyboard

how little do u want sopend

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

hmmm... looks like a Piece of poo poo

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

echinopsis posted:

how little do u want sopend

Up to $50 american maybe

if it can't be done or is grossly inadvisable I'm not too invested in the idea

I see some cheaper keybords on amazon but they don't mention cherry switches or anything so dunno

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
or maybe a monoprice keyboard?? they come with reds or blues and have full n-key rollover

I use my numpad all the time so I want one anyway

Baxate
Feb 1, 2011

Silver Alicorn posted:

or maybe a monoprice keyboard?? they come with reds or blues and have full n-key rollover

I use my numpad all the time so I want one anyway

ya this
but 2 of their 3 current models have the wrong enter key for some reason...

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
ew you're right

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Silver Alicorn posted:

what if I want a CHEAP mechanical keyboard

you can find suckers selling an Apple Extended Keyboard II for under $50

then you just need to get a Griffin iMate ABB-USB adaptor, or make one with an Arduino Leonardo or other little USB HID microcontroller board that can deal with 5V (the software for them already exists, it's basically just a wiring job)

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


i have an old ibm thinkpad with a really nice keyboard, idk what kind of switches it has or whatever but its p. nice.


minivanmegafun
Jul 27, 2004

eschaton posted:

you can find suckers selling an Apple Extended Keyboard II for under $50

then you just need to get a Griffin iMate ABB-USB adaptor, or make one with an Arduino Leonardo or other little USB HID microcontroller board that can deal with 5V (the software for them already exists, it's basically just a wiring job)

i have an Apple Extended Keyboard I and I can't deal with the lack of NKRO or ghosting or whatever, it drives me nuts to the point I don't use it with my iMate

would building the leonardo hid board give me some tunables to work around that or is this just an issue inherent to the keyboard?

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

minivanmegafun posted:

i have an Apple Extended Keyboard I and I can't deal with the lack of NKRO or ghosting or whatever, it drives me nuts to the point I don't use it with my iMate

would building the leonardo hid board give me some tunables to work around that or is this just an issue inherent to the keyboard?

pretty sure it's an issue with the keyboard and not the iMate, probably related to how the matrix is scanned or the software on its controller or something, it's not a limit in the ADB protocol

in those days very few people did NKRO (though it did exist, Symbolics touted it, but on a Lisp machine you need NKRO just for the meta keys…)

if you wanted to really be creative you could see about replacing the low-level electronics in your AEKI with some of your own (like a Leonardo) to get NKRO, you probably wouldn't have to replace more than the controller since the key matrix should be just dumb plumbing, I doubt the key matrix itself would be a source of rollover issues since it did support several arbitrary keys at once

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Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009


that G looks a little weird, but good to see theyre finally getting made

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