deskthority

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=35 ... #msg655373

"The summer of 2011 is referred to as the Summer of Ping around here because of the ridiculous debate that went on surrounding various ringing/pinging phenomena."

Seems to also be part of the whole ripster story ...

This ebay seller is symbolics-dks, they sent out a notification this morning ... 3 years after the last one. Coincidence or are they lurking here? :D


Well it’s not me! I am going to bid on this board tho.


So, did you get it? Almost reasonable price, good that I didn't wake up this morning ...

Muirium wrote: 24 Feb 2023, 09:18 [...] You’ll need $BANK and patience aplenty.

Good luck!

At least one of these will turn out true

This ebay seller is symbolics-dks, they sent out a notification this morning ... 3 years after the last one. Coincidence or are they lurking here?

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttga ... _Sep88.pdf

page 16

If you haven't yet, contact the guys at http://www.symbolics-dks.com , they occasionally put symbolics keyboards on ebay and will send you a notification about it when you ask them to do so.

Good Luck

Leading Edge DC-2014
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266143932321

way to expensive ... but smiley caps
https://www.ebay.com/itm/175277988217

some ibm keyboard with unusable layout
https://www.ebay.com/itm/295536241124

do we have someone around who knows how to repair keyboards?
https://www.ebay.com/itm ...

wobbled wrote: 22 Feb 2023, 19:07 [...]. I was half right, they never did anything with DT. With the exception of shit merch. [...]

Well they pay the bills, so that makes them (at least) equivalent to the DT-Club members who only paid, or donators who only paid.

photekq wrote: 20 Feb 2023, 17:35 How much did web hosting cost for deskthority at its peak? I've been curious about that.

at least 700 per year ...
viewtopic.php?p=455121#p455121

maybe more ...
viewtopic.php?p=454781#p454781

[…] The fact that you haven't been run off the forum for your greed and your general pissant woe-is-me attitude is a testament to the tolerance of the few people that still bother to be active here. […]
Well, I am not aware of any rules violation by webwit which would have entailed any sanction ...

Or the famous Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen with Umsetztechnik

digital_matthew wrote: 27 Aug 2022, 14:15 Is this really an Apple 1 keyboard?

I think the Apple 1 came without a keyboard, so "the" apple 1 keyboard is whatever ASCII keyboard the user bought for it.

So at least there're two variants existing, hall effect and ITW switches respectively?

I doubt if we could distinguish from just observing keycaps.

31E05592-D650-4702-9873-0B4EA0606663.jpeg


This one has the ITW switches. Honeywell mount, so indistinguishable by caps.

IMG_20220322_155343 ...

switches in the wiki:
wiki/Ericsson_RMD_973_series

Nice find

For all those Symbolics fans, whoever found this in an estate sale no doubt had a great find:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/114933868710

Interesting that it notes the microswitches to be tactile. I think I've only ever seen/tried linear microswitches myself ;)


Well I have some tactile https ...

Thanks guys

My only keyboard bought in the last two years, so my best and my worst find of 2021 at the same time

The grailiness(?) to scruffiness ratio was too good to resist.

Muirium wrote: 27 Jan 2022, 09:57 What, a real one? Or just the Alpine remake?

Did you know that in 2021, for that money, you could have bought a symbolics keyboard?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/283725751989?hash=item420f5f66b5:g:CWMAAOSw~EReCC3v

1PC used DOLCH portable industrial computer keyboard


Keycaps do not look Cherry, as opposed to this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/194176317122


Not so great then, I guess. The price for the cherry one is insane ...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/283725751989?h ... Sw~EReCC3v

1PC used DOLCH portable industrial computer keyboard with NOT cherry switches

No keycaps, no microcontroller, but a bunch of SD-series switches.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234035913007

As far as I can make out, they are 4U5E.


U in second place is missing in the wiki ... Is that a cross mount?
The 5 means it is probably relatively heavy.
The E is confirmed by the 3 ...

And yet his software is forever stuck in limbo precisely because he didn't include a simple open source licence text.


He clearly choose to not open the source of his converter at that point in time. That was not an accident but a choice he made.

That he failed to include licenses for the stuff ...

He was, according to his profile, last active on GH end of August 2014. He stopped posting middle of march.

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You are a complete newbie here, and have no clue of the social structure of this place. Otherwise you would have known that trying to control what people are allowed to say in this topic was asking for disaster.


Back in my day , whenever a noob on DT made a gaffe, people would explain to ...

If hacker culture is tinkering with stuff, finding and sharing workarounds and clever solutions to technical problems, and having fun while doing this, then I don't see how this place is not part of hacker culture.


Serious answer: This crew has some of the aspirations of hacker culture. Some ...

If this place weren't a weird little tidepool disconnected from hacker culture [...]



If you are "hacker culture" ... I am glad to be disconnected from it :)

If hacker culture is tinkering with stuff, finding and sharing workarounds and clever solutions to technical problems, and having fun ...

John Doe wrote: 09 Jan 2021, 13:25 https://www.ebay.com/itm/333851287571/

MicroSwitch SD board with 4-terminal pins sensors, curious about its convertibility to USB interface.

viewtopic.php?t=18283&sid=ca9f26637effa ... 956fb7775a

Lekrafter wrote: 22 Aug 2020, 19:18 What is this?

Screenshot_20200822-131643_eBay.jpg

I'd put my money on some sort of Keytronic Magnetic Reed
wiki/Key_Tronic_magnetic_reed

People complaining about Ellipse having elliptical prices for his keyboards? No shit man ...