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atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
My keyboard has keys for both reverse video and blink.

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Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

atomicthumbs posted:

My keyboard has keys for both reverse video and blink.

Pics bithc

quaker69
Jul 3, 2004

Four measures of cheap Vodka combined with a bottle of Bawls
Lipstick Apathy

VOTE YES ON 69 posted:

i literally don't believe there are people who don't bottom out keys

Have had a ducky with brown switches for a few years and I feel like I have to purposely try to fully bottom them out. I'm not exactly an elf walking above the snow either.

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


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



it's like if you combined a buckling spring switch and a topre switch, made it completely buttery smooth with almost no increase in force until actuation, and made it take only 55g of force

Red_Fred
Oct 21, 2010


Fallen Rib
What does field mark do? Also the key below it?

My code with clears will arrive this week can't wait to be clackin

marumaru
May 20, 2013



BrettRobb posted:

Have had a ducky with brown switches for a few years and I feel like I have to purposely try to fully bottom them out. I'm not exactly an elf walking above the snow either.

bottoming out is the best. not bottoming out makes me feel like something is wrong.

also i bought a chinese mech keyboard for $20 or something, excited to see how bad it is

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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hopefully it's not something as bad as fake cherry-ish stems on a dome boar

http://imgur.com/a/XifET

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


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

Red_Fred posted:

What does field mark do? Also the key below it?

My code with clears will arrive this week can't wait to be clackin

field mark marks a field (3270 terminals were significantly smarter than non-IBM terminals and worked with fields instead of just lines and poo poo)

for some reason this thing has the "INS" and "DEL" keys replaced with the equivalent proofreaders' marks. perhaps it was meant to be used by non-technical women and/or children.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Red_Fred posted:

What does field mark do? Also the key below it?

My code with clears will arrive this week can't wait to be clackin

mate you won't be clacking you'll just be flying

pgroce
Oct 24, 2002

atomicthumbs posted:

field mark marks a field (3270 terminals were significantly smarter than non-IBM terminals and worked with fields instead of just lines and poo poo)

for some reason this thing has the "INS" and "DEL" keys replaced with the equivalent proofreaders' marks. perhaps it was meant to be used by non-technical women and/or children.

at the time that thing was being designed a large number of programmers probably had secretarial backgrounds. even after the initial round of "programming's like typing!" faded out, people were giving aptitude tests with things like logic programs on it to basically everyone to identify and train new programmers. in addition to the stoners and general wastoids that are my professional role models, they still got more than a few ladies from the office pool.

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/07/28/normalizing-female-computer-programmers-in-the-1960s/

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

ya, people like to go on about ada lovelace possibly writing down some small snippets on paper in an impractical age, and missing that literally 95% of the first several hundred programmers were women

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

atomicthumbs posted:

field mark marks a field (3270 terminals were significantly smarter than non-IBM terminals and worked with fields instead of just lines and poo poo)

ya they're still like that today



like, instead of entering your command at the bottom, you put a / somewhere in the blank space next to the item you want to open and hit enter. the terminal knows what was modified and just sends those fields back, so you can receive and fill out a whole form with just one roundtrip to the mainframe because it's still 1975 and networks are real freakin slow

of course you don't get a cool keyboard anymore

Red_Fred
Oct 21, 2010


Fallen Rib
My code with clears arrived. Holy poo poo, it's like my fingers are touching rainbows when I type!

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
:D

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
Not only does the action of the beam spring provide a tactile pop that pushes against your finger on the upstroke... but the shape of the spring means that the key vibrates when it actuates, and you can feel it ringing under your finger.

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

atomicthumbs posted:

Not only does the action of the beam spring provide a tactile pop that pushes against your finger on the upstroke... but the shape of the spring means that the key vibrates when it actuates, and you can feel it ringing under your finger.

hnnng :awesome:

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

atomicthumbs posted:

Not only does the action of the beam spring provide a tactile pop that pushes against your finger on the upstroke... but the shape of the spring means that the key vibrates when it actuates, and you can feel it ringing under your finger.

is the joke that i can only read this in patrick bateman's voice?

danielski
Aug 14, 2003
Clapping Larry

carry on then posted:

ya they're still like that today



like, instead of entering your command at the bottom, you put a / somewhere in the blank space next to the item you want to open and hit enter. the terminal knows what was modified and just sends those fields back, so you can receive and fill out a whole form with just one roundtrip to the mainframe because it's still 1975 and networks are real freakin slow

of course you don't get a cool keyboard anymore

scrub tier TSO user with command line at bottom and scroll set to page rather than CSR

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


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

Jenny Agutter posted:

is the joke that i can only read this in patrick bateman's voice?

I've described this keyboard multiple times in multiple places and each time someone's said something about me sounding like Patrick Bateman.

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/58u3ry/i_work_at_an_electronics_recycler_people_drop_off/d93kdtf/

quote:

I am so glad you chose to rescue it!
I've never had the privilege of using a beam spring keyboard.
As a form of voyeurism, could you please describe it?

me posted:

Heavy. Corporate. Industrial. Made for Data Entry, continuously and in perpetuity. Half of the interface between an IBM System/360 Computer and its users.

Having only used cylindrical caps before, it's hard to properly center my fingers on the keys while touch-typing, but I can still type quickly.

It's got the smoothest-rising force profile I've ever felt in a keyboard, and a break like crystal glass tapped with the point of a carbide punch. The keys have a little side-to-side play, but not too much. The click is restrained, subtle; entirely unlike a Model M's. The sections of the keyboard are segmented by tall, painted metal partitions, so that it is impossible to misplace your hands.

The cable is shielded, with the last few inches exposed, and a grounding strap attached to that so you can tie your hardware together as one shielded system to avoid RFI on long cable runs.

The palmrest pops open; it is spring-loaded, held by a latch. Inside is a troubleshooting guide; if your 3278 Color Display Terminal is functioning incorrectly, you consult that.

The base of the keyboard has substantial rubber feet, an inch across and a sixth thick, each installed in their own special location on the solid cast aluminum tub that makes up the keyboard's structure, and most of its eleven pounds.

A special plastic container flips open from the bottom of the keyboard; it contains the Device Log. These keyboards have never required service from an IBM engineer, and have no entries.

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
The F and J keys have a deeper depression, to encourage correct finger placement.

My god, it even has a solenoid.

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



atomicthumbs posted:

The F and J keys have a deeper depression, to encourage correct finger placement.

My god, it even has a solenoid.

im

im qwertin here

skimothy milkerson
Nov 19, 2006

did anyone say they were qwertin

skimothy milkerson
Nov 19, 2006

Agile Vector posted:

im

im qwertin here

literally edit gently caress beaten

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
postin on page 69 :chord:

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
♋️

Fayez Butts
Aug 24, 2006


:monocle:

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


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

This post is cancer

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
um

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

danielski posted:

scrub tier TSO user with command line at bottom and scroll set to page rather than CSR

bro im just a lowly java dev i take what's given

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

rotor posted:

postin on page 69 :chord:

wb

Asshole Masonanie
Oct 27, 2009

by vyelkin
Nice

here was my first mechanical keyboard

Instant Grat
Jul 31, 2009

Just add
NERD RAAAAAAGE
loving hell

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1229573443/das-keyboard-5q-the-cloud-connected-keyboard

Instant Grat
Jul 31, 2009

Just add
NERD RAAAAAAGE
god dammit

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




oh for gently caress's sake

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

(_!_)
Buglord

Symbolic Butt posted:

no das is great

they made the das 5q, the first cloud enabled mechanical keyboard! :yaycloud:

Instant Grat
Jul 31, 2009

Just add
NERD RAAAAAAGE
u know what they say..

if it can't be easily made part of a botnet and used to take down large swathes of the internet, i don't want it in my house!!

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001


They are using the same lovely omron switch that Logitech used for their newest gaming boards. They are mushy and gross as hell, prioritizing the key backlighting quality above the tactile feel :barf:

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
accidentally won an auction for a tkl browns

i didn't need it! welp $77nzd shipped isn't a bad price for a board that will be pleasant to
type on. might leave it at work as my work
board

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surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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:siren: last day to get 25% off round 7 caps:
https://deskthority.net/group-buys-f50/round-7-algol-style-spherical-keys-t14580.html

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