I finally finished my Model F AT project!
It took an entire year for modelfkeyboards.com to get me the new keycaps...so frustrating but I finally got them and they look beautiful and this is the best layout ever for a keyboard!
For the enlarged backspace key, I had to take my keyboard apart and replace the flipper with a stabilizer. While I was at it, I fixed my Alt key (which the spring had come loose over the past 35 years) and did the Model F spacebar mod to lighten the actuation force to match the rest of the keys!
Barring a house fire, I will be taking this keyboard with me through the rest of my life/my future programming career! This old keyboard is truly bulletproof and I would 1000000% recommend anyone who loves old tech to follow in my footsteps!
The soarer's code for this keyboard (for my mac):
# delete FAT.scb file if any
# create/edit FAT.sc file
# ./scas FAT.sc FAT.scb
# scwr FAT.scb
ifset set2
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F1 SYSTEM_SLEEP
F2 ESC
F3 F1 # Darken Brightness
F4 F2 # Brighten Brightness
F5 MEDIA_VOLUME_DOWN
F6 MEDIA_VOLUME_UP
F7 MEDIA_MUTE
F8 MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE
F9 MEDIA_PREV_TRACK
F10 MEDIA_NEXT_TRACK
BACK_QUOTE BACKSLASH
ESC DELETE
SCROLL_LOCK PAD_SLASH
FAKE_19 PAD_ASTERIX
PAD_ASTERIX PAD_MINUS
PAD_MINUS PAD_PLUS
PAD_PLUS PAD_ENTER
CLEAR DOWN
LCTRL CAPS_LOCK
CAPS_LOCK RCTRL
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# FN KEY FUNCTIONALITY
remapblock
layer 0
num_lock select_1
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ifselect 1
remapblock
layer 0
PAD_0 UNASSIGNED
PAD_1 UNASSIGNED
PAD_2 down
PAD_3 UNASSIGNED
PAD_4 left
PAD_5 down
PAD_6 right
PAD_7 UNASSIGNED
PAD_8 up
PAD_9 UNASSIGNED
PAD_PERIOD UNASSIGNED
F2 BACK_QUOTE
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this post was typed courtesy of my 06-22-1985 IBM Model F AT
