Round 5: The Cappening
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Damn, I'll have to wait for 5a to do this one:
Related: anyone have a friend with a metal detector in Israel?
https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery7.html
https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery8.htmlThis is an IBM 2260 Video Display Unit, once the glass teletype of choice for a timesharing system.
Related: anyone have a friend with a metal detector in Israel?
the IBM 1050 Data Terminal shown below circa 1970. This one had a keyboard, printer and punched card reader. It used the six-bit Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) code at 134.5 bps. A bunch of these shared the same telephone line with each one selected by a special prefix code. It had no internal memory, so the operator had to retype a line of data if the checksum failed. The last one I saw was buried in the Negev Desert in 1971.
https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery7.html
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
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- DT Pro Member: µ
Naasfu's sneaky TKL gave me an idea. So here's my white mods in action…
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- zslane
- Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
- Main keyboard: RealForce RGB
- Main mouse: Basic Microsoft USB mouse
- Favorite switch: Topre
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Those mono-legends look tasty, but not being R1 really hurts the sculpted aesthetic.
I like the all-black look too...makes me anxious to try my CDC-713 colorway one day in the future.
I like the all-black look too...makes me anxious to try my CDC-713 colorway one day in the future.
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
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- DT Pro Member: µ
Yup. I always wanted row 1 but 7bit restricted them to row 3 at some stage in Round 5's lengthy history (one of his low selling kit culls back in the day) and I stayed on them anyway. Probably shouldn't have bothered. They're nice, but context is everything. I may well try to sell them.zslane wrote: ↑Those mono-legends look tasty, but not being R1 really hurts the sculpted aesthetic.
- caligo
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Main keyboard: Whitefox
- Main mouse: Ducky Secret Mouse MX
- Favorite switch: Blue
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Finally got my keycaps yesterday. They had to be posted twice – the first time DHL just took them for a quick ride through Germany and then back to 7bit in Berlin – so they've been through some interesting adventures already.
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- Location: US - South Dakota
- Main keyboard: Gon NerD 60
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Master
- Favorite switch: Ergo Clear
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Very new to DT, not quite sure where to post this. But I just traded for a Round 5 set and need the following caps to make the set work with my layout. Please let me know if you have these caps and aren't using them. Thanks!
Grey Row 2 1.5u Backspace
White Row 1 1u Backslash
Grey Row 3 1.5u Modifiers
Red Row 3 Arrows
Grey Row 3 1.75u Shift
Grey Row 3 1u Fn
White 7u Spacebar
Grey Row 2 1.5u Backspace
White Row 1 1u Backslash
Grey Row 3 1.5u Modifiers
Red Row 3 Arrows
Grey Row 3 1.75u Shift
Grey Row 3 1u Fn
White 7u Spacebar
- usopia
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Akko-MOD007B-HE, Keychron Q3-Pro
- Main mouse: Cougar Surpassion
- Favorite switch: HE, MX Black, Topre 55g
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Yes, your request is better off in the R5 Aftermarket Thread:
http://deskthority.net/w-a-n-t-t-o-t-r- ... 10510.html.
http://deskthority.net/w-a-n-t-t-o-t-r- ... 10510.html.
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- Location: US - South Dakota
- Main keyboard: Gon NerD 60
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Master
- Favorite switch: Ergo Clear
- DT Pro Member: -
I appreciate it. I have posted in that thread.usopia wrote: ↑Yes, your request is better off in the R5 Aftermarket Thread:
http://deskthority.net/w-a-n-t-t-o-t-r- ... 10510.html.
- tofagerl
- Location: Norway
- Main keyboard: Satan GH60
- Main mouse: MX Master
- Favorite switch: Zealio 67 and Topre
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SP are selling Modern Selectric on the new PMK, and the black alphas are only $30. Is it me, or do they look a lot like these alphas? Can someone who has the black alphas see if they're identical?
http://pimpmykeyboard.com/sa-modern-selectric-keyset/
http://pimpmykeyboard.com/sa-modern-selectric-keyset/
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
I'd like to know the home addresses of all these fools who keep designing such deformed keysets so I can do more than merely pity them from afar, but give them some direct feedback.
<cracks knuckles> Ow! Goddamn damp autumn atmosphere. Really must remember not to do that.
On the upside: nice that they tried to get icon mods on SA. Unfortunately, they made the mistake of trusting SP's taste:
Blech!
<cracks knuckles> Ow! Goddamn damp autumn atmosphere. Really must remember not to do that.
On the upside: nice that they tried to get icon mods on SA. Unfortunately, they made the mistake of trusting SP's taste:
Blech!
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Did the poop come out of the plastic pooping machine yet?
SP's QA!
If Cherry still made classic thick dyesubs like they used to, we'd be in some splendid alternate reality. But instead, we're stuck in the one where SP survived instead, only without someone in house with the least sense of objective style. We was conned!
SP's QA!
But the price of a nice set of dyesubs makes me SAD. And that's just ISO!DanielT wrote: ↑Life is so easy for me, I like and use only Cherry stuff
If Cherry still made classic thick dyesubs like they used to, we'd be in some splendid alternate reality. But instead, we're stuck in the one where SP survived instead, only without someone in house with the least sense of objective style. We was conned!
- zslane
- Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
- Main keyboard: RealForce RGB
- Main mouse: Basic Microsoft USB mouse
- Favorite switch: Topre
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The usual rationale for lots of row 3 everywhere is the same reason DSA is popular with the alt-layout crowd. You can move the keycaps around to suit alternative layouts much easier, making the set appeal to a wider audience (making MOQs easier to hit and so forth).
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
The alt layout crowd won't like that row 2 QWERTY while the others are row 3. And neither do I! Go all row 3, or all sculpted. Between those lies an unhappy medium.
Also: the alt layout crowd are a bit like me. They talk louder than their wallets! You'd think there's lots of them, but look at 7bit's sales figures for their kits. And the difficulty tipping their stuff on PMK. What sells best is whatever goes straight on a Filco.
Also: the alt layout crowd are a bit like me. They talk louder than their wallets! You'd think there's lots of them, but look at 7bit's sales figures for their kits. And the difficulty tipping their stuff on PMK. What sells best is whatever goes straight on a Filco.
- zslane
- Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
- Main keyboard: RealForce RGB
- Main mouse: Basic Microsoft USB mouse
- Favorite switch: Topre
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I certainly have a vested interested in believing this to be true (re: SA Dasher/Dancer), but a quick look at Danger Zone's order figures tells an interesting tale: it sold 617 base sets, and 152 kits between Ergo, Planck/Atomic, and UK-ISO. That means that nearly 25% of the base kits are targeting non-ANSI layouts. That's pretty significant.Muirium wrote: ↑ Also: the alt layout crowd are a bit like me. They talk louder than their wallets! You'd think there's lots of them, but look at 7bit's sales figures for their kits. And the difficulty tipping their stuff on PMK. What sells best is whatever goes straight on a Filco.
- SL89
- ‽
- Location: Massachusetts, USA
- Main keyboard: CODE 104
- Main mouse: Logitech M570
- Favorite switch: Cherry MX Green
- DT Pro Member: 0095
25% will not drive the manufacturers or the companies or GB's. They are a vocal but cheap minority. It's much easier to do what Mu said and go for the Filco ideal then it is to tailor things. Even 7bit's machine rode on the back of standard ANSI (backed up by standard ISO.)
- SL89
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- Location: Massachusetts, USA
- Main keyboard: CODE 104
- Main mouse: Logitech M570
- Favorite switch: Cherry MX Green
- DT Pro Member: 0095
Is it 'here, here' or 'hear, hear' when you agree with someone?Muirium wrote: ↑ANSI first, ANSI second, and ANSI third. Then ISO. Only after all of that do you start to consider the loonies!
- zslane
- Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
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I'm a bit more draconian than that even. I would leave off the "only after that" part and stop at ANSI + ISO. Unless one small kit of around a dozen keycaps could accomodate some significant percentage of the loonies, then I could get behind that as well I suppose.Muirium wrote: ↑ANSI first, ANSI second, and ANSI third. Then ISO. Only after all of that do you start to consider the loonies!