Bloody posted:

still disappointed nobody itt has fessed up to using data hands

evilcat posted:

Why does it have a return lever? Why does it have a feed roll and feed knobs? Why does it have a regular enter key if the return lever also does the enter and they're trying to pretend to be a typewriter? Why does it have 1 and 0 keys if it's pretending to be a typewriter? Are people who want to play at using old tech ironically without actually having to use old tech just that easily confused by the missing 1 and 0?
Also why are they using the really old style of typewriter key as those went obsolete long before typewriters did for good reasons.
The whole thing confuses me, especially the quotes about it. If someone wants to kick the nostalgia factor up or longs for the days of typewriters, they're still pretty cheap and ribbons can still be found for most of them and getting and fixing one up would cost less than buying that keyboard.

ArmZ posted:

lol if you don't need a numpad for your multitude of counterstirke binds

maniacdevnull posted:

i found my old Model F 5150



not my pic, but this exact layout. mine looks great, practically new. wired it up to an ardunio for a q&d test and looks like it still works great.
what have you people done to me

probably going to write my own arduino code for this thing because i need a new nerd project.

maniacdevnull posted:

wow thats pricey

i like the buckling springs in the model f i got up and running but it is loud af and either i keep it here and my family kills me or i take it to work and my coworkers kill me. also the weird layout is hard to get used to.

whats a good, quiet starter mech keyboard? are brown/clear switches the way to go for quiet typing?

surebet posted:

not the same board obviously but pretty much the exact ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ i'm thinking of going for w/ a round 7

eschaton posted:

the keyboard collector fuccbois are taking them to harvest their key switches and keycaps

Roosevelt posted:

Captain Foo posted:

Pics bithc

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

Jenny Agutter posted:

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

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.

echinopsis posted:

♋️

surebet posted:

moved back to an open office space, coworkers vetoed the model m after 35 minutes and it has received an official eviction notice

at least i got bribed to ease the pain:



reqs:
- must be fairly silent
- vintage preferred, modern tolerated
- backlit not desired
- tenkey critical
- ps/2 preferred
- winkey optional, but appreciated

something with browns or clears should fit the bill nicely

b0red posted:

lol to anyone who shits on topre and hasn't spent a week or two on it

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

i don't understand why there aren't more people making kinesis/maltron clones

once you go bowls you never go back