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Title: APL keyboard
Post by: lcs on Fri, 05 July 2013, 20:34:49
Has anyone seen one of those APL keyboards for sale? Are there mechanical of those?
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: Findecanor on Fri, 05 July 2013, 21:07:17
IBM made Model M with APL legends that pop up on the second-hand market now and then. You can custom-order keyboards with APL legends from Unicomp (http://www.pckeyboard.com).
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: jabar on Fri, 05 July 2013, 21:09:40
some of those APL symbols overlap with the Symbolics "Space Cadet" Lisp keyboard... never seen these before
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: lcs on Fri, 05 July 2013, 21:22:14
IBM made Model M with APL legends that pop up on the second-hand market now and then. You can custom-order keyboards with APL legends from Unicomp (http://www.pckeyboard.com).

That's great! My girlfriend suggested buying an Unicomp or a Model M, if possible, and to add the keycaps :)
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: ___q on Fri, 12 July 2013, 22:06:55
A few days late for this thread but FYI, I tried to get a set of APL keycaps from Unicomp recently, and was told that they "don't currently have APL caps or the means to print them", but that it was "most definitely on [their] wish list".

Sad :( An SSK with APL keycaps would be awesome.
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: smknjoe on Fri, 12 July 2013, 22:09:54
A few days late for this thread but FYI, I tried to get a set of APL keycaps from Unicomp recently, and was told that they "don't currently have APL caps or the means to print them", but that it was "most definitely on [their] wish list".

Sad :( An SSK with APL keycaps would be awesome.

Here you go: http://imgur.com/a/q0c8A
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: ___q on Fri, 12 July 2013, 22:13:12
A few days late for this thread but FYI, I tried to get a set of APL keycaps from Unicomp recently, and was told that they "don't currently have APL caps or the means to print them", but that it was "most definitely on [their] wish list".

Sad :( An SSK with APL keycaps would be awesome.

Here you go: http://imgur.com/a/q0c8A

I want one so much, but they're so hard to find! :/ 

... what's up with the random katy perry?
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: smknjoe on Fri, 12 July 2013, 22:17:13
Ripster is a little "out there"...

...it looks like he was using her handbag as an example to show why the capslock is called a handbag capslock. Not random at all.
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: lcs on Fri, 12 July 2013, 22:34:13
A few days late for this thread but FYI, I tried to get a set of APL keycaps from Unicomp recently, and was told that they "don't currently have APL caps or the means to print them", but that it was "most definitely on [their] wish list".

Sad :( An SSK with APL keycaps would be awesome.

Here you go: http://imgur.com/a/q0c8A

I want one so much, but they're so hard to find! :/ 

... what's up with the random katy perry?

You could get this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Brand-New-IBM-Personal-System-2-Space-Saving-Keyboard-SSK-Model-M-Clicky-/221250813183?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item3383937cff

Unfortunately a bit expensive for me :(
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: smknjoe on Fri, 12 July 2013, 22:36:56
...or this one (it's cheaper) http://www.ebay.com/itm/161063407595?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: ___q on Fri, 12 July 2013, 22:38:08
A few days late for this thread but FYI, I tried to get a set of APL keycaps from Unicomp recently, and was told that they "don't currently have APL caps or the means to print them", but that it was "most definitely on [their] wish list".

Sad :( An SSK with APL keycaps would be awesome.

Here you go: http://imgur.com/a/q0c8A

I want one so much, but they're so hard to find! :/ 

... what's up with the random katy perry?

You could get this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Brand-New-IBM-Personal-System-2-Space-Saving-Keyboard-SSK-Model-M-Clicky-/221250813183?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item3383937cff

Unfortunately a bit expensive for me :(

The APL keycap set is the hard thing to find, not the SSK! ;)
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: smknjoe on Fri, 12 July 2013, 22:39:48
Here are some APL stickers for $15 http://shop.hooleon.com/products/keyboards-stickers-emulations-apl
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: ___q on Fri, 12 July 2013, 22:42:43
Here are some APL stickers for $15 http://shop.hooleon.com/products/keyboards-stickers-emulations-apl

Stickers seem like they would both feel gross and (from various pictures I've seen on ebay) get dirty immediately  :(
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: smknjoe on Fri, 12 July 2013, 22:44:29
I hear ya! If you can't get them from Unicomp then start scouring Ebay for them.
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 13 July 2013, 01:23:05
A few days late for this thread but FYI, I tried to get a set of APL keycaps from Unicomp recently, and was told that they "don't currently have APL caps or the means to print them", but that it was "most definitely on [their] wish list".

Sad :( An SSK with APL keycaps would be awesome.

Here you go: http://imgur.com/a/q0c8A

I want one so much, but they're so hard to find! :/ 

... what's up with the random katy perry?

I thought it was Zooey Deschanel.
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: ___q on Sat, 13 July 2013, 01:40:12
A few days late for this thread but FYI, I tried to get a set of APL keycaps from Unicomp recently, and was told that they "don't currently have APL caps or the means to print them", but that it was "most definitely on [their] wish list".

Sad :( An SSK with APL keycaps would be awesome.

Here you go: http://imgur.com/a/q0c8A

I want one so much, but they're so hard to find! :/ 

... what's up with the random katy perry?

I thought it was Zooey Deschanel.

Whoa, you appear to be right  :-[
Title: Re: APL keyboard
Post by: lcs on Sun, 14 July 2013, 11:46:18
A few days late for this thread but FYI, I tried to get a set of APL keycaps from Unicomp recently, and was told that they "don't currently have APL caps or the means to print them", but that it was "most definitely on [their] wish list".

Sad :( An SSK with APL keycaps would be awesome.

Here you go: http://imgur.com/a/q0c8A

I want one so much, but they're so hard to find! :/ 

... what's up with the random katy perry?

I thought it was Zooey Deschanel.

They look the same anyway.