Holy shit! I leave for 1 hour and come back to 2 whole pages of shocking photos. All I can say is... more! MORE!Muirium wrote:Well, you knew what you were letting yourself in for, Mr.A500…
Random keyboards, lovingly photographed
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
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And so far, no duplicate keyboardsmr_a500 wrote:Holy shit! I leave for 1 hour and come back to 2 whole pages of shocking photos. All I can say is... more! MORE!Muirium wrote:Well, you knew what you were letting yourself in for, Mr.A500…
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
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Some photos aren't so "lovingly photographed" though - especially the ones with crud under the keys. Somehow I just can't feel the love when looking at crud.HaaTa wrote:And so far, no duplicate keyboards
This is an odd photo - outside with lawn chair. Is that one of those "summer cottage keyboards" for typing on down at the beach?HaaTa wrote:
- Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
These threads are awfully hard to find and keep track of ("I know I saw some photo of something somewhere …"), and have virtually zero useful information (basically "WTF is this I don't even", and this one is worse as most pictures are uncaptioned and deliberately unhelpful).Muirium wrote:We have to actually know something about what we're posting. And in such a way as to fit the Wiki's taxonomy. Posting a picture, meanwhile, rushes straight to the bit we like to do!Daniel Beardsmore wrote:(Funny how people are overanxious to post photos so long as they don't have to sign their soul over to the wiki devil.)
Couple that with all the "Please identify X" topics where I have to guess where I thought I saw something that might have looked like what I'm looking at but no-one ever wrote it up properly (at least I have MouseFan's work to fall back on).
If everyone just briefly documented everything they own ***SOMEWHERE*** at least we might have some sort of a clue.
How do we keep finding so many ways to avoid making real knowledge available to everyone?
- Halvar
- Location: Baden, DE
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M SSK / Filco MT 2
- Favorite switch: Beam & buckling spring, Monterey, MX Brown
- DT Pro Member: 0051
This is an awesome thread, I love it! Especially HaaTa never ceases to amaze!
I agree with Daniel though that it would be so much more useful is there was a little caption with each picture designationg the keyboard. We have a forum search function, but it will find nothing in this thread.
I agree with Daniel though that it would be so much more useful is there was a little caption with each picture designationg the keyboard. We have a forum search function, but it will find nothing in this thread.
- kint
- Location: northern Germany
- Main keyboard: g80-8200/ FK-2002
- Main mouse: genius netscroll optical gen1
- Favorite switch: MX clear/ Alps white comp
- DT Pro Member: -
http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... ml#p138165
this post, it's an HP keyboard but what switch has it?
Also: While I love to see all of the pics, I'm missing the artist touch in some of them.
this post, it's an HP keyboard but what switch has it?
Also: While I love to see all of the pics, I'm missing the artist touch in some of them.
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The point of this thread is to just look at the beauty of keyboards. I think all of these keyboards already have their own breakdown threads, with switches identified. This is just for oogling.Daniel Beardsmore wrote:These threads are awfully hard to find and keep track of ("I know I saw some photo of something somewhere …"), and have virtually zero useful information (basically "WTF is this I don't even", and this one is worse as most pictures are uncaptioned and deliberately unhelpful).Muirium wrote:We have to actually know something about what we're posting. And in such a way as to fit the Wiki's taxonomy. Posting a picture, meanwhile, rushes straight to the bit we like to do!Daniel Beardsmore wrote:(Funny how people are overanxious to post photos so long as they don't have to sign their soul over to the wiki devil.)
Couple that with all the "Please identify X" topics where I have to guess where I thought I saw something that might have looked like what I'm looking at but no-one ever wrote it up properly (at least I have MouseFan's work to fall back on).
If everyone just briefly documented everything they own ***SOMEWHERE*** at least we might have some sort of a clue.
How do we keep finding so many ways to avoid making real knowledge available to everyone?
(I know I should contribute to the wiki, but losing hundreds of posts and photos in the Geekhack disaster has made me wary of putting too much effort into websites.)
- 7bit
- Location: Berlin, DE
- Main keyboard: Tipro / IBM 3270 emulator
- Main mouse: Logitech granite for SGI
- Favorite switch: MX Lock
- DT Pro Member: 0001
Alps. I've typed a lot on this.kint wrote:http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... ml#p138165
this post, it's an HP keyboard but what switch has it?
Also: While I love to see all of the pics, I'm missing the artist touch in some of them.
- 002
- Topre Enthusiast
- Location: Australia
- Main keyboard: Realforce & Libertouch
- Main mouse: Logitech G Pro Wireless
- Favorite switch: Topre
- DT Pro Member: 0002
Here's a couple of pics of a Sony NEWS NWP-411A I took a little while ago:
And for those who don't browse the wiki too often, the MCRW-1000 keyboard:
And for those who don't browse the wiki too often, the MCRW-1000 keyboard:
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
So, one of the reasons I'm transitioning to Flickr is that you can click on the pictures and it will go to the album.
One of my own requirements for my albums is that it has at least a keyboard name of sorts. I need a good visualizer, but every keyboard in my Google+ and Flickr albums is marked in my spreadsheet (remember the crawler query?).
I'm always torn between documenting/locating old keyboards and actually trying to work on new keyboard related things (kishsaver controller, switches, etc.).
Yes, I could work tirelessly on the wiki like Beardsmore, but that would eat into all my other keyboard activities.
By now it should be pretty clear, I don't post that much on the forums. It's not that I'm not interested, it's just that I don't browse the forums that much anymore because I'm too busy tracking down a sense bug, chatting in IRC, or tracking down yet another undiscovered keyboard switch.
One of the big problems when I "rediscover" a keyboard switch is that I know absolutely nothing about it. It often takes hours of research to even get a company name. Some switches (Prototopre for example), I know nothing about other than they are very similar to Topre and were also made in Japan before Topre started making office equipment.
And while I do like being a keyboard historian, that's not why I'm still around and would have left keyboards in 2012. It may seem like I joke around about wanting an assistant, but I'm pretty serious about that. My "To Research" pile is enormous. Beardsmore has been tackling a lot of mysteries. Ironically, all the ones I wasn't all that interested in, but ended up to be quite interesting
I'm tired of only seeing Topre and Cherry in modern keyboards (thanks Matias!). Unicomp...well...I wouldn't call their keyboards "modern". I want this to change. Regardless of whether I have to do it all myself, I will introduce switch variance into the modern keyboard world.
And with a little luck, perhaps the ultimate keyboard switch.
(This was not a stab at anyone, just a rant about myself; please keep bugging me to do stuff, otherwise I'll never get it done )
One of my own requirements for my albums is that it has at least a keyboard name of sorts. I need a good visualizer, but every keyboard in my Google+ and Flickr albums is marked in my spreadsheet (remember the crawler query?).
I'm always torn between documenting/locating old keyboards and actually trying to work on new keyboard related things (kishsaver controller, switches, etc.).
Yes, I could work tirelessly on the wiki like Beardsmore, but that would eat into all my other keyboard activities.
By now it should be pretty clear, I don't post that much on the forums. It's not that I'm not interested, it's just that I don't browse the forums that much anymore because I'm too busy tracking down a sense bug, chatting in IRC, or tracking down yet another undiscovered keyboard switch.
One of the big problems when I "rediscover" a keyboard switch is that I know absolutely nothing about it. It often takes hours of research to even get a company name. Some switches (Prototopre for example), I know nothing about other than they are very similar to Topre and were also made in Japan before Topre started making office equipment.
And while I do like being a keyboard historian, that's not why I'm still around and would have left keyboards in 2012. It may seem like I joke around about wanting an assistant, but I'm pretty serious about that. My "To Research" pile is enormous. Beardsmore has been tackling a lot of mysteries. Ironically, all the ones I wasn't all that interested in, but ended up to be quite interesting
I'm tired of only seeing Topre and Cherry in modern keyboards (thanks Matias!). Unicomp...well...I wouldn't call their keyboards "modern". I want this to change. Regardless of whether I have to do it all myself, I will introduce switch variance into the modern keyboard world.
And with a little luck, perhaps the ultimate keyboard switch.
(This was not a stab at anyone, just a rant about myself; please keep bugging me to do stuff, otherwise I'll never get it done )
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
That one is a Clicky Fujitsu Leaf Spring actually.7bit wrote:Alps. I've typed a lot on this.kint wrote:http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... ml#p138165
this post, it's an HP keyboard but what switch has it?
Also: While I love to see all of the pics, I'm missing the artist touch in some of them.
- Dubsgalore
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: ESA-3000-HASRO
- Main mouse: Deathadder 2013
- Favorite switch: MX Blacks
- DT Pro Member: -
- Dubsgalore
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: ESA-3000-HASRO
- Main mouse: Deathadder 2013
- Favorite switch: MX Blacks
- DT Pro Member: -
tinnie wrote: