Also, if anybody could point my in the direction of some ancient greek (aka polytonic greek) keycaps, I'd be rather thankful - guess that might have been a bit too exotic even for IBM. Best I could find so far was a plain modern greek layout.
Chris
greekhack.org! Sorry I don't have anything useful to say. Congrats on your keyboard tho
It's not "new and shiny" clean, but clean enough for my taste, a bit of discoloring on the Spacebar, but nothing a dishwasher cycle couldn't fix I guess.
Typing on the thing is an actual revelation for me. It seems like my usual typing errors are right now reduced by about 80%, but I might be fooling myself over it, since I'm obviously somewhat more focussed on typing right now than I would be usually with my other boards.
So the next plans would be: Dye some keys (WASD? GH?) "fake IBM blue", convert to USB internally, possibly change the LED color to blue as well, but I guess any usual blue LED might be too harsh actually. Any tips/recommendations on that?
Also, if anybody could point my in the direction of some ancient greek (aka polytonic greek) keycaps, I'd be rather thankful - guess that might have been a bit too exotic even for IBM. Best I could find so far was a plain modern greek layout.
Always thought APL looked Greek or at least Phoenician.
Not a big fan of blue LEDs actually, have too much problems with halos around them (their wavelength tends to be in a range that the human eye can't focus very well any more). You most definitely don't want any high efficiency types. Try white, yellow, orange or red.
Always thought APL looked Greek or at least Phoenician.Show Image(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4946470897_b6b93f1bff_b.jpg)
The Rare Blue DialectShow Image(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5124/5252956146_70d2c7b6ac_z.jpg)
Also, if anybody could point my in the direction of some ancient greek (aka polytonic greek) keycaps, I'd be rather thankful - guess that might have been a bit too exotic even for IBM. Best I could find so far was a plain modern greek layout.
Chris
So to summarize this whole thread in two words.
Dye, Hard.
they just come loose with time, or do they actually pop off?
Sixty has a great looking Industrial M w/ orange LEDs.
http://keyboardporn.com/buckling-spring/ibm-industrial-diy-version/
Really can't decide wether I'd prefer that or Ripster's APL Space Saver. Really, really nice. I'd really like to find out wether those "custom rgb keycaps" are dyed or a special production run...Unicomp sells them. They are very affordable.
Chris
Is Unicomp still selling those colored keycaps for two piece keys? I thought Webwit had Chuck go in the back room and he bought them all out? Or it might have been the Industrial Grey tops....
This is a keyboard I assembled myself out of several spare parts, most of them kindly supplied by webwit. In late 2010 webwit ordered a bunch of leftover IBM Model M Industrial cases from Unicomp and sent me a spare one along with some other goodies.