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7bit wrote:BTW, what should be the nearest equivalent of public domain?

I like WTFPL.

tlt wrote:I really like the look of that board. What is the purpose of the double click switches?

Repeat. Type normally for single keystrokes, press harder and the key repeats.

Oops...I better read the details about how to upload in the right place with the requisite details. I posted this one hastily, as I'm kinda busy today, but will read up and try again. It took me a while to get the process, as one not intimately familiar with wiki workings. In case this is an obstac...

Daniel Beardsmore wrote: Particularly with the Amiga keyboard, an application of a soft brush to remove all the dust would help

Wait 'til you see the ALPS. I actually did give these things a brush between the keys, but most of them need more than that to be actually clean.

Two more people need to post; I'm hoping to get second runner-up.

(I still have pictures of an ALPS Glidepoint keyboard to crop and upload, which I may or may not get around to soon (especially since there's no wiki entry yet) but I definitely won't have time for any more shoots before the deadline.)

daedalus wrote:

rodtang wrote:Well, mainly the "WHO ARE YOU" one

I assume it would do something similar to the whoami command in Unix.

Damn kids, get off my lawn.

What does it feel like? It seems to me you could get a good Selectricky feel (insert Holy Grail emoji here) with the right springs and magnets.

mr_a500 wrote:I just saw a picture in a 1981 BYTE magazine that showed a Honeywell terminal very similar - with similar layout, yet the keys were all white. Maybe they realized that this was boring and later added the grey, black and red keys.

Month/page? Most BYTE issues are available at the Internet Archive.

IBM 1394413, French-Canadian layout for IBM 347x and 348x terminals.

7bit wrote:As a general rule: Everything which does not look like standard layout

This. Unless the guy is up for an eight-hour tutorial with an exam at the end, “looks unfamiliar” is the way to go.

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DraftSight has serious usability issues for me. Every time I pan around, the view is "dirtied" (I have to change zoom to force a refresh, otherwise its unreadably fuzz-tastic) and I can't even figure out how to use the various measure tools. I'm failing at the simplest thing: measuring straight for...

Maybe something here will help? This seems to be a common occurrence with the festering pile of pus that is phpBB.

https://www.google.com/search?q=logging ... .phpbb.com

daedalus wrote:A terminal based on the Selectric III.... was this an IBM product?

Sorry, I was mistaken; it was a Selectric II (third party; Datel 30).

What did happen on the Selectric III was the concurrent move to cylindrical caps and ISO 9995 corner legends (see earlier in the thread). I do suspect that making room for the legends was part of the motivation for the flatter corners. IBM dates the Selectric III to 1980 and highlights the “ larger,...

Muirium wrote:So many long posts have died in the reply editor thanks to an accidental hit of a history button or an unexpected refresh of the tab; and it's not just me.

I use an extension/plugin called Lazarus that preserves text boxes; it appears to be available for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.

I frequently find myself logged out of Deskthority, often when trying to preview and post, but also at other times. Troubleshooting: It seems that DT sometimes, for no apparent reason, sends a new set of session cookies. See below for a log of HTTP headers sent and received loading a particular samp...

In practice you'd want to precompute light or dark for each image.

this thing looks like one could start nuclear rockets with it :D The big red button to fire cruise missiles is fiction, at least on board the Royal Navy submarine HMS Splendid. Instead they are fired by the click of a mouse. One crew member, filmed during the Iraq war, tells this weekend's edition ...

The wiki also lists no date for Cherry MX blue, likely the first tactile switch from Cherry, but the MX range is cited to have appeared around 1985 (starting with black, linear). My Xerox 1109 (no later than 1985) has Cherry MX switches in pale white (linear), grey-green (firm linear), and pale yel...

Cylindrical is still better, despite the nonsense in this thread, such as, it was a cheapening. No, it was an evolution. Spherical caps are inherited from typewriters and shitty 70ties switches, where you need to hit the key in the center. The spherical cap forces you as such. None of the typewrite...

Fascinating. I didn't consider that there were ISO standards preventing various keyboard features. It looks like those standards all started around '93-94 though, after manufacturers had already basically standardized anyway. (beam spring was killed long before the standard came out) The ISO standa...

On the contrary, they are best ergonomic practice because they allow not having to completely move fingers away to see the legends underneath. I always suspected that was the thinking behind that change... The reasoning from ISO 9995 is that it provides a standard place for legends for normal, shif...

webwit wrote:Cylindrical keycaps are better.

Only if they have spherical depressions on top.

ISO 9241-4 §6.1.3 mandates thin keyboards, which killed the beam spring.

ISO 9241-4 §6.1.6 requires matte finish keycaps.

ISO 9995-1 §8 specifies legends squished up in the corners.

A couple quick (?) questions.

• Any tips on using DraftSight for this purpose? Specifically moving/copying groups of key holes on the appropriate ⅛u grid.
• Is the cost primarily metal plus laser time (roughly, cut length), or are there other factors to be aware of?

Wow now you impress me. I'd love to use KA but I couldn't stand the ESC key being rubber (I could possibly ignore F-keys) As you're a vi user, you could do as I do: swap ESC with (forward) Delete. This produces a nice symmetry between Enter (end lines & commands) and ESC (end input). You'd also pro...

7bit wrote:Great to see you don't have any missing keys!

If I had them, they wouldn't be missing.

Just got the reply from the laser cutter. Unfortunately they can't make it by the end of July and we have to wait until September. Excellent. I should be in for a battleship-sized plate by then. I'm just waiting for the second half of my Round 4 caps to arrive so I can finalize my layout with assur...

7bit wrote:Please, also provide photos, but do not attach these
to the message, because my script does not read the
attachments!

Here is a photo of my missing keys: