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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Keylamity on Wed, 21 December 2011, 22:30:12
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Poor jellowiggler is trying to figure out which keyboard to live with, and asked us geeks our opinion. Let's help out our junior geek-wanna-bees who ping us about the board we can't live without by replying to this post listing simply the one board you would be buried with, the one you want your mother to tuck beside you in your coffin, the one you can't let go, even in death.
As for me, bury me with my newly ordered Realforce Black 87U Stealth, full of silent topres .... last thing I wanna do is make a keylamity down there, waking up any funky neighbours with all my clicking noises.
Just disturbing my workmates is trouble enough.
Keylamity
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You should not wait that long.
Bring troubles to your mates, colleagues and family right now, since today may be your last day on earth.
I myself don't know when my Filco breaks or stops working because of a spilt Coke can. So I try to bring as much troubles to geekhackers as possible.
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My last will is to be cremated, welded into a cannon ball, and fired "at the British", followed by some fine partying at sea. My life goal is to be awesome enough that my lawyers and family don't think that is a joke.
I don't think it will be necessary to add improper disposal of e-waste to the list of laws that need to be broken. Plus a quality keyboard is like a good pocket watch, something that should be passed to your family to be sold on ebay.
Also I wouldn't have an answer for that, as my only keyboard is this cherry blue WASD. Only other mechanical I have personal experience with is a Model M.
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You have eaten so much from the nature. Now let the nature, i.e. the insects eat you when you die. Be a chance to become food for nature. Pay back what you have taken for granted.
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I'd rather just pollute the ocean with more random crap.
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^At least it won't be frozen head ripster.[ATTACH=CONFIG]35667[/ATTACH]
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Can we bring this back to the OP Q?
Which keyboard is your fave that you couldn't live without?
(Thanks for trying to lend a hand to a newb Keylamity!)
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As of right now it'd be my hacked up Filco M2 104 w/ clears (and grey space bar switch!) haven't decided on keycaps yet though. It's currently wearing black doubleshots, but I'm thinking maybe Wyse... or a set of dyesubs. but I can't justify spending any more money on boards; I already got frivolous and bought a Leopold w/ clears just to show my support. (vote with the dollars!)
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This seems like a legitimate, if frivolous, thread. I will respect the spirit of the question.
Although I am really partial to the early IBM Model M, particularly a 1390131, as of this moment there is no question that the keyboard that I am typing on now would be my top choice.
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This is my fully modded Model F 122-key terminal dated 17 June 1985, 3 days after my 33rd birthday.
It was dis-assembled, thoroughly cleaned, adjusted, and painted. I added bolts (see my wiki) holding the metal plate (front plate, as opposed to back plate in a Model M) to the circuit board, flossed the springs, and stuffed the case with multiple types of padding.
Soarer's Teensy modification worked perfectly, it is mounted internally with an ordinary USB cable connecting to the computer (6' black Radio Shack premium cable with gold-plated connectors (my other one uses a gray Geek Squad brand cable, which is probably better)).
I used KeyTweak to remap several keys, and did the best I could to replace key caps to reflect the remapping. My only complaint/request is the (my) inability to re-map 2 keys on the numpad - I want "Num Lock" to become "/", and "Pause" to become "-". Even his Highness the almighty Soarer cannot seem to accomplish this feat.
Otherwise, this is the perfect keyboard, unless size and weight are considered negative attributes rather than positives. This 22"x9"x3" behemoth (560mm x 230mm x 80mm !) weighs approximately the same as each of my children weighed at birth (full-term and healthy). It does not slide around on the desk as I type.
Simply put, this artifact is "Bad - Ass" and you can take your featherweight plastics and aluminums and do whatever you want with them.
This is not the keyboard I carry when traveling, I use the pathetic scissor-switch laptop for that, but at home, in my den, with my 50-pound full-tower with 4 hard drives, 3 optical drives, and 2 monitors, this is how I connect to the digital universe.
Does this fully address the intent of the OP?
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Man, that keyboard is almost big enough to be a coffin. (...maybe this thread could be "Bury me in my (enter favourite board here) keyboard...")
It's a pity you can't remap those two keys. Is that KeyTweak software open source? Maybe you could edit and recompile it. That's what I had to do with KeyRemap4MacBook to get all the keys I wanted on my Model F.
What do you do with the blank key in the centre of the arrows? I had difficulty playing a couple games with that layout on the numeric keypad, so I made the centre key another down arrow - to keep the "inverted T" layout.
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I gave my wife this pic and told her to recreate it EXACTLY. And put my IBM Industrial Mini on my chest so everyone can admire it.
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Well, I hope you're a pudgy old Korean when you die because otherwise it might get tricky attempting to "recreate it EXACTLY". (though maybe she could find a good plastic surgeon...)
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He doesn't look pudgy in the pic.
Maybe my Selectric Typewriter? Make a hipster statement.
Maybe our definition of "pudgy" differs. (what Canadians call "gross obesity", Americans call "a little overweight" ;) )
You want a Selectric Typewriter on your chest in your coffin? Better reinforce your rib cage.
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Back to Mr A
The middle arrow key is set to be another "Down" although it is a mixed blessing.
It is "right" when coming off the other 3 arrows, but when coming up from the down key, it is wrong.
So I suppose that there are no absolute rights and wrongs.
I have a similar board with no floss and less padding, and I like it just as well. It has a home-made rubber inner mat.
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"Number One Keyboard Expert In Heaven"
You mean in Hell.
Down there, you'll probably be reviewing sticky membrane keyboards and very hot touchscreens. And you can forget your fancy Legos. All they have are single shaped Brix Blox™ brand and they won't fit together properly.
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Hell would be up there. Specifically Canada.
If Canada is Hell ...and I'm not saying it's not... but what does that make the USA? Über-Hell? South-Central Hell-town? Downtown Hell-vania?
...because I know the USA is more Hellish than Canada.
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...because I know the USA is more Hellish than Canada.
I dunno about that...
but you guys DO have better strip clubs...
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It'll say:
"I sing the body Selectric"
You get punster credo for this.
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I just received my first mechanical keyboard recently, but you can bury me with it. It's a Filco Majestouch-1 104 Cherry MX-Brown.
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Hell would be up there. Specifically Canada.
Here's a nice recent comparison between Canada and the USA:
USA:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16323666 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16323666)
Canada:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/12/24/toronto-eaton-centre.html (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/12/24/toronto-eaton-centre.html)
Which one would you consider more hellish?
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Back to the subject, I don't think I'd want to be buried with a keyboard. What's the point if it's not connected to a computer? I might want to be buried with my Amiga 500. That way, if I'm dug up in 30,000 years and revived by aliens, I can challenge them to a game of Speedball II. (but they better not be multi-tentacled aliens or they'll have an unfair advantage!)
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I'd go for the Model M. If I happened to be buried while still alive, it's the keyboard that could best be utilized as a shovel.