Author Topic: Still uncertain (for you xsphat) :) (Read 4038 times)

xsphat · « **Reply #1 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 12:58:42 »

And you aimed this one at me? I brick electronics just by painting them for christs sake ...

Dude, I don't know. I have all wired components and it's going to stay that way. I wouldn't know how to power a keyboard without plugging it in to my computer, so I guess what you should do is get a BS degree in electronics so you can rig it up the way you want, or just buy an HHKB Pro 2 before they get discontinued (which I suspect they are this year) and use a long, thin cable for it.

bigpook · « **Reply #2 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 13:05:01 »

And how know you this, that the HHKB Pro 2 is being discontinued. Does this mean a HHKB Pro 3 is on the way?

xsphat · « **Reply #3 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 13:19:06 »

Stock of them has been dwindling for months and you can't even buy the blank white ones anymore (they are the most popular and the first ones to go) but at this point it's little more than an educated guess. I have a few emails out to try and confirm this, but PFU has has had this big attitude with me in the past like US people are just rodents that shouldn't be able to put their fingers on the HHKB Pro 2 which is "strictly a product of Japan." This could have been CYOA in action because it costs extra money to get a product OK'd for sale in Japan and the USA, but it's not like we all don't have HHKB Pro 2s and it's not like the US governement is going to go after them because people like us have imported them.

Well, maybe our current regime would nuke them for that ... I'm not putting anything past our current puppet dictator, stupid as he is.

bigpook · « **Reply #4 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 13:38:04 »

I am not a rodent, of unusual size either.... ; )

D-EJ915 · « **Reply #5 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 13:38:22 »

If the HHKBpro2 is going away I know what I'm getting for christmas...

iMav · « **Reply #6 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 13:50:07 »

Quote from: bigpook;7488

I am not a rodent, of unusual size either.... ; )

"Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist."

graywolf · « **Reply #7 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 14:21:17 »

Quote from: xsphat;7485

Stock of them has been dwindling for months and you can't even buy the blank white ones anymore (they are the most popular and the first ones to go) but at this point it's little more than an educated guess. I have a few emails out to try and confirm this, but PFU has has had this big attitude with me in the past like US people are just rodents that shouldn't be able to put their fingers on the HHKB Pro 2 which is "strictly a product of Japan." This could have been CYOA in action because it costs extra money to get a product OK'd for sale in Japan and the USA, but it's not like we all don't have HHKB Pro 2s and it's not like the US governement is going to go after them because people like us have imported them.

Could it be simply that they are already selling them as fast as they can make them in Japan?

The modern manufacturing way is not to fill warehouses up with stuff, but to make them in small batches that sell immediately. If they make runs of 5000 for instance they will often wait until the have orders for 3000 or more before they switch the line over to that product again and run off another batch.

lowpoly · « **Reply #8 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 14:47:36 »

Do we have any serial numbers for the hhkb pro2? Assuming they are sequential.

Mine: black, blank, #0014xx date:2008-01

Don't know if it's neccessary to anonymize the last two digits, but then, it's the internet.

iMav · « **Reply #9 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 15:01:15 »

My HHKB Pro2 is as follows:

Serial #: 001165
Rev: A0
Date: 2007-08

Although half my HHKB is made from a blank, white HHKB Pro (v.1), the bottom with the serial number on it is from a HHKB Pro 2, black, blank.

bhtooefr · « **Reply #10 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 15:04:21 »

Such technology for making a keyboard wireless does exist, but IIRC, the device-end "transmitters" are tethered to the wall (it's wireless USB, not Bluetooth, and they're meant for stuff like printers... so unless you want to duct tape a few pounds worth of batteries to the keyboard, it's not a great idea to go that route.)

lowpoly · « **Reply #11 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 15:41:45 »

^^^ Didn't you have that Bluetooth controller board? Last post on that was something like "have to figure out how the logic is set up"?

xsphat · « **Reply #12 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 15:43:30 »

Wasn't someone here throwing around the idea of building a wireless Model M? I remember thinking it would need a kick starter.

bigpook · « **Reply #13 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 16:18:35 »

Quote from: iMav;7490

"Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist."

Famous last words.....

bhtooefr · « **Reply #14 on:** Mon, 18 August 2008, 16:21:47 »

And I never did get a chance to figure out how it'd work.

(And, it'd be some... surgery... on the Model M - basically, hooking its key matrix into that controller, rather than into the stock controller. Which is a whole different animal from gluing a wireless USB transceiver onto a Model M.)

Ulysses31 · « **Reply #15 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 09:23:49 »

Quote from: iMav;7490

"Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist."

Oh no?

itlnstln · « **Reply #16 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 09:39:24 »

Quote from: iMav;7490

"Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist."

You dirty rat...

bigpook · « **Reply #17 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 16:52:42 »

I stand corrected, that is quite the rodent. Now tell us, does this rodent have a name?

itlnstln · « **Reply #18 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 17:02:55 »

I think it's called a capybara.

http://www.rebsig.com/capybara/

itlnstln · « **Reply #19 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 17:06:45 »

Quote from: itlnstln;7601

I think it's called a capybara.

http://www.rebsig.com/capybara/

Be sure to check out the Netscape 3.0 link at the bottom of the page (along with an old IE link). Classic. This page must be pretty old.

bigpook · « **Reply #20 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 17:27:44 »

If only Wesley had to deal with these in the Fire Swamp.....they look somewhat docile, versus the other rodents of unusual size.

xsphat · « **Reply #21 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 17:42:45 »

"Good day to you Wesley, good work. I'll most likely kill you in the mourning."

bigpook · « **Reply #22 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 18:01:58 »

Ahhh yes, the Dread Pirate Roberts....

xsphat · « **Reply #23 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 18:23:09 »

I wanted my wedding to be like that one but the wife wouldn't have it and neither would the justice of the peace.

ashort · « **Reply #24 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 20:16:22 »

An old woman screaming "GARBAGE! BOW to the Queen of Refuse!"

xsphat · « **Reply #25 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 20:20:15 »

No, like this:
"Do you?"
"Yes."
"Do you?"
"Yes."
"Then you are."

bigpook · « **Reply #26 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 20:36:59 »

Let us not forget the classic:

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die.

ashort · « **Reply #27 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 20:43:12 »

Quote from: bigpook;7613

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die.

"STOP SAYING THAT!"

iMav · « **Reply #28 on:** Tue, 19 August 2008, 22:36:52 »

This was on my recent free iMac G5 acquisition (before I cleaned it up):

News:

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