mechanical keyboards: im qwertin here

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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?

surebet posted:

any suggestions for a mouse to pair it up with?

e: 3 button mouse preferred

you want an IBM M-SF15 or M-S30 PS/2 3-button mouse

it's the canonical mouse to pair with a Model M because it's what IBM shipped with the RS/6000

I'll post a pic tonight, I use one with the Model M on my BeBox

# ¿ Nov 21, 2015 04:05

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 08:57

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?

I was actually incorrect about the model though, here's mine:

it's an IBM M-SB9-6MD with a 3-4m cable

Apple Extended Keyboard II with ALPS cream keyswitches for scale

the mouse and its associated Model M keyboard used to plug into an early-1990s RS/6000 the size and shape of a two-drawer filing cabinet

I'm pretty sure that system ran Taligent since I scavenged a complete set of Taligent docs at the same time as the mouse & keyboard (alas I couldn't keep the system itself or find any CDs)

# ¿ Nov 21, 2015 06:19

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?

atomicthumbs posted:

lol

if you ever come across a Taligent CD set I want it

also, according to people I know who have one, the CD set that employees got when IBM finally shipped the Taligent Application Environment 1.0 and developer tools for AIX (in like 1996, lol) wasn't actually a real CD set: the CDs were printed, but empty

IBM was worried about the software getting out without a properly executed license agreement and support contract or something

# ¿ Nov 22, 2015 00:47

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?

good keyboard

# ¿ Nov 27, 2015 03:50

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?

echinopsis posted:

I had
to make a story for a family talent show for Xmas eve. I smoked a fat bowl and sat down and blasted it out on my mechanical keybapds. God it felt great

tell us the story

I can tell when my wife is dealing with a jackass on social media thanks to the Matais I got her, it sounds just beautiful as she pounds out a glorious point by point evisceration

# ¿ Dec 25, 2015 09:30

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?

Smythe posted:

tangent: i have a huge asus gamer laptop that i inherited from a friend. its insanely huge. but i want to put it on a little stand like i see ppl do so i can engage in keyboard fetishism at work and nto need to type on its little KB. any suggestions from The Pos? i think most stands are designed for little computers. but this computer is big. extremely big.

Massdrop has a Vivo stand drop right now that claims to work for portables up to 22 pounds

# ¿ Feb 4, 2016 22:42

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?

in the future, true pro keyboards will require a tube preamp for that rich full sound

# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 04:37

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?

Jimmy Carter posted:

what about sun type 4

# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 06:10

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?

surebet posted:

not to mention the extra fucky tiny f keys

those have a particular, satisfying feel to them though

they just go click when you press them, exactly like you think they should

# ¿ Feb 10, 2016 02:36

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?

just picked up a Sun Type 7 because my officemate prefers quiet and Sun made the only deece feeling rubber dome keyboards

# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 18:42

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?

GameCube posted:

just chalked up another compliment on my Apple Extended II.

what model? (there's a handy guide on deskthority)

the made-in-Japan model from 1989 has Mitsumi, not ALPS, keyswitches�which ~~I find superior~~ are totally inferior and you should find an ALPS board and let me take your Mitsumi board and dispose of it properly if that's what you have

# ¿ Mar 12, 2016 02:57

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?

duckfarts posted:

try one of these:

is a good mouse

you can even get a non optical version

and it's very easy to interface, you can basically go straight through a 5V (not RS-232) USB serial adapter at 1200bps 8/N/1, or use the UART on an Arduino and also use it to present a USB HID to your system

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 08:47

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?

There Will Be Penalty posted:

hp mouse best mouse

I still haven't gotten my HP-HIL interface working

stupid 100kbps 12/O/1 serial protocol�

seriously considering making a custom UART in a CPLD since nothing can do 12-bit serial

eschaton fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Mar 17, 2016

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 17:49

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?

new Apple Desktop Bus Keyboard

going to use it on a secondary system at work

# ¿ Apr 2, 2016 18:58

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?

Marzzle posted:

are these the old timey alps switches? are you just using an ADB-USB adapter and if so does it work pretty well?

i have some old apple mech KBs but the ADB thing has sorta always turned me off from using them on a computer without the port.

the one I have is a new-label made-in-Japan so I'm pretty sure it's ALPS, there's also an SMK variant though

the Griffin iMate is $30 or on eBay and works well in my experience, no drivers necessary. if you have one that's dropping key presses you should open it and replace the battery (!) which can make it flaky when run down

the battery is really only used to make the power key actually start up an old system (original iMac or B&W G3) anyway

# ¿ Apr 3, 2016 02:18

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?

Raluek posted:

the adapter i have is not an imate, it is something older than that i think, but ill look to see if it has a battery. that would explain the "am i that bad at keyboard all of a sudden???" moments

oh, I have no idea if the other couple common adapters are any good, or how they're put together, I've only ever used the iMate

# ¿ Apr 3, 2016 17:18

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?

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

so, what is it ?

and ruin the adventure for the next person who wants one?

# ¿ Apr 5, 2016 22:14

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?

surebet posted:

please tell me someone has thrown some modern hardware and a HiDPI display in one of these

# ¿ Apr 12, 2016 17:29

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?

surebet posted:

it gets weirder, 3x1 monitor array in a box:

looks like the sort of thing you'd use to set up a temporary C&C

# ¿ Apr 13, 2016 18:03

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?

surebet posted:

at that point it's not really a portable thing anymore, it's more like a bunch of open frame monitors on admittedly neat folding mounts

back to keyboars, i've been looking for a solution for mac havers at the office that includes a cac style reader and cherry has a bunch, but a lot of them also have credit card readers and i don't even want to imagine the driver hell i'd jump into trying to implement that under osx

most USB card readers (and barcode readers) just pretend to be keyboards and send keystrokes

most will generate control characters before and after so you can filter the input, and let you customize that easily (a little coding to send packets to the device for card readers, barcode readers often just have a sheet you can scan to change things)

cherry should have technical info available on how their stuff is set up

# ¿ Apr 13, 2016 18:07

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?

rotor posted:

yeah ok i want this one

http://www.acmeportable.com/products/flexpac-iii

the Xeon version supports up to 512GB RAM

bound to be defense-procurement prices

too bad it doesn't have a mechanical keyboard

# ¿ Apr 14, 2016 06:23

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?

surebet posted:

office just passed a ban on noisy boars and my model m was specifically cited (lol)

are mx clears the quietest ones in the cherry range? i forget

sounds like a hostile work environment that's not making reasonable accommodation for your wrist and finger pain and risk of carpal tunnel syndrome

you should bring this up with HR

# ¿ Apr 23, 2016 00:03

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?

FopeDush posted:

your life becomes miserable the second you sit down at any computer

# ¿ May 4, 2016 17:25

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?

Bloody posted:

still disappointed nobody itt has fessed up to being mr data hands

# ¿ May 5, 2016 02:08

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?

rotor posted:

i purchased one of these in a store and played a video game with it, it was great.

original Descent right?

we had a couple Spaceball protos around the office we tried with that

of course keyboard was supreme with MechWarrior 2, my Apple Extended served me well

eschaton fucked around with this message at 17:20 on May 11, 2016

# ¿ May 11, 2016 17:12

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?

BONGHITZ posted:

I always bought egg chairs in the sims

those were p sweet in real life with some good tunes piped through their speakers

# ¿ May 14, 2016 05:46

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?

Skim Milk posted:

mechanical keyboards: im qwertin here

# ¿ May 21, 2016 23:25

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?

guess what has a mechanical keyboard

# ¿ May 29, 2016 08:18

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:

could you imagine a mechanical keyboard yostop?

# ¿ May 31, 2016 17:12

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?

Power Ambient posted:

look at this loving thing

http://www.qwerkywriter.com

not authentic, has 1 and 0 keys

# ¿ May 31, 2016 17:13

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?

imagine the clicky click this thing makes

# ¿ Jun 2, 2016 04:54

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?

it is quite solidly built

it's also not something I'm using via USB, it's attached to a Symbolics console which is attached to a Symbolics XL400

# ¿ Jun 7, 2016 06:52

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?

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

you have a working xl400? o_0

just got the XL400, don't know if it works. I need to pull the ESDI drives to ensure they don't eat themselves when I power it up, and the console definitely doesn't work right now (probably needs to be recapped).

# ¿ Jun 7, 2016 17:17

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?

SO DEMANDING posted:

are you this guy, or do you know this guy?

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/464nep/my_current_battle_station_supporting_frantic_work/

I know him, it's on his advice I'm pulling the existing drives.

quote:

and if you actually have working symbolics hardware why the gently caress havent you posted about it before

I just got it yesterday

# ¿ Jun 7, 2016 17:19

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?

SO DEMANDING posted:

neat

make a big lispy effortpost when you get further along

I may even do that before I get it running, with OpenGenera (Symbolics emulator) and Meroko (TI Explorer)

OSI Bean Dip should also share how he's enjoying the TI Explorer that I sent him for yosmas 2015

# ¿ Jun 7, 2016 18:40

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?

I'm staying in SF during the conference and expected to do other work when I'm not helping developers in a lab or speaking

so I brought my laptop stand and external mouse and mechanical keyboard, the same setup I use at the office

so far it's p needs suiting

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 20:49

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?

cheese-cube posted:

lol, actually has an LED for num-lock unlike every other single loving pos logitech keyboard. what loving reason would they remove the num-lock LED for why why why?

because using your number pad for anything but numbers is scrub

# ¿ Jun 13, 2016 08:42

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?

Cocoa Crispies posted:

okay so thanks for posting this, i met thefinder/trinitron over the weekend and got to use that mac-hosted lisp machine too

real hard to get used to rubout being where ctrl should be

sweet, how was it? and the camp thing?

and how was the key feel?

# ¿ Jun 14, 2016 03:18

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?

it could have used an OS/2 logo instead of a Windows logo

# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 17:11

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 08:57

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?

Bloody posted:

which keyboard is best

Apple Extended Keyboard II with Mitsumi key switches

# ¿ Jun 29, 2016 18:53

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