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.

eschaton posted:

go old, get an Apple Extended Keyboard II and an ADB-USB adapter, that'll get you some sweet ALPS or Mitsumi key switches (the latter on the "made in Japan" variant)

or go pseudo-old and get a Matias USB clone of the AEK II or tenkeyless variant thereof, they make their own switches based on the ALPS design and also have "quiet" variants that feel a little more like Mitsumi switches

eschaton posted:

would anyone be interested in a replica lisp machine keyboard if one should be made?

mechanical, of course, and either Matias or Cherry key switches, based on the production Symbolics layout

USB of course, and producing all of the proper key codes from all of the various meta, hyper, super, etc. keys

pram posted:

this is what my keys are based on

surebet posted:

it's still within the realm of reason for a re-issue of a popular set

weirdo nerd idiocy, envy and greed gave us this last summer:
https://originative.co/products/sa-penumbra
https://originative.co/products/sa-hyperfuse

the part that i found especially insulting is that for effectively three hundred earth dollars shipped all you got is a bastardized re-issue in row 3 only with other small stuff that got hosed with

they did that to preserve the ~prestige~ of owning a "true" round one issue all the while charging something crazy retarded knowing idiots would fall for it, since penumbra has been known to sell in the almost four figgie range

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/5nt6h7/the_problems_with_penumbra_r2/?st=j3mes05z&sh=888aa386

can't wait for to come in and smash all this pretentious nerd poo poo

surebet posted:

if you've ever wanted to kick a start, input club is running a white fox batch over there instead of the usual massdrop & co

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lekashman/whitefox-mechanical-keyboard



not my cup of tea, but i figure a couple of you might be down for this. 60%ish, halo switches, pbt caps, layers & a not bad case.

Cocoa Crispies posted:

they're brand new switches, i don't think anyone's used 'em yet

Shaggar posted:

HEY NONG MAN posted:

these keys are all ABS though

surebet posted:

not sure how it progressed in the last month, but


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lekashman/whitefox-mechanical-keyboard/updates

quote:

The switch manufacturer (which is separate from the keyboard manufacturer) is also working extremely diligently on producing our revised switches, but they require our presence in China to rapidly go over prototyping and make necessary adjustments. To that end, our team is actually flying out to China in two weeks to make sure that the replacements for Halo True and Halo Clear switches are spectacular. When we return from that trip, we will have quite a bit more information about the entire production process.

Handling the situation with our previous partners has cost us some time that could otherwise be spent working on keyboards, and thus we are going to revise our ship date for WhiteFox keyboards. This decision is also determined by the fact that we are testing our new switches for tens of millions more cycles than the original Halo switches. In our last update we had mentioned that we planned to fulfill in December for the whole order, but we don’t feel very comfortable with that date any longer and will be revising the ship date for Halo replacement orders to January 30th, 2018. For Kickstarter orders without Halo switches, we plan to ship in the month of December. Please be aware that if you want to cancel your order, you are welcome to do so at any time by messaging us via Kickstarter’s system, however we recommend that you keep reading as we may have an alternative that interests you.

We’ve also been working very diligently with legal counsel to make sure that our newly invented switches don’t have any conflicts or issues with the switch tooling owned and controlled by Massdrop. Multiple lawyers have advised us to keep details of the switch private until we are actually in a position to immediately produce and ship keyboards to backers, to reduce the potential risk of delays stemming from legal disputes. We are an extraordinarily open organization and it pains us to have to remain quiet about the cool features we’ve built into these new switches, but we have a duty to protect the timeline for production and this is the best way to do so.