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Title: Game: Match a historical character with a keyboard or switches.
Post by: Obakemono on Thu, 29 August 2013, 17:21:01
Simple game, just choose a historical character, dead or alive, and say what keyboard would have used nowadays  :p just for fun, you can even discuss your opinions.

Leonardo Da Vinci would have used a blue KMAC assembled by himself and with modded ergo clears  ;D
Title: Re: Game: Match a historical character with a keyboard or switches.
Post by: noisyturtle on Thu, 29 August 2013, 17:43:49
Simple game, just choose a historical character, dead or alive, and say what keyboard would have used nowadays  :p just for fun, you can even discuss your opinions.

Leonardo Da Vinci would have used a blue KMAC assembled by himself and with modded ergo clears  ;D

Da Vinci strikes me as more of a beam spring man.

Abraham Lincoln uses one of Beasts wooden cases housing mx blacks and a hid liberation device
Title: Re: Game: Match a historical character with a keyboard or switches.
Post by: eth0s on Thu, 29 August 2013, 17:55:40
Hmm, I think Leonardo di Caprio would use an HHKB Pro 2, Type-S, 'cuz he knows what's up.  But with lettered keycaps, not blanks, 'cuz he's kind of soft.
Title: Re: Game: Match a historical character with a keyboard or switches.
Post by: Techno Trousers on Thu, 29 August 2013, 19:55:42
Chuck Norris still uses an IBM F122. In fact, it's the very keyboard he once used to kill three home invaders in the 1980s. He doesn't even need a Soarer converter for it. It runs on pure awesome.
Title: Re: Game: Match a historical character with a keyboard or switches.
Post by: Thimplum on Thu, 29 August 2013, 19:58:40
I think that Iginio Straffi would use an Apple Wireless Aluminium keyboard.
Title: Re: Game: Match a historical character with a keyboard or switches.
Post by: Melvang on Fri, 30 August 2013, 06:11:33
Nikola Tesla would be using a classic typewriter from his era modded with the type bars straight instead of a curve and striking am MX White or Green.  Just to be different.
Title: Re: Game: Match a historical character with a keyboard or switches.
Post by: Photekq on Fri, 30 August 2013, 06:14:02
Da Vinci probably would've used something closer to a datamancer.
Title: Re: Game: Match a historical character with a keyboard or switches.
Post by: meiosis on Fri, 30 August 2013, 06:45:09
tp4tissue would use a ergodox
Title: Re: Game: Match a historical character with a keyboard or switches.
Post by: funkymeeba on Fri, 30 August 2013, 08:18:43
As Theodore Roosevelt once said, "Type softly, but carry a big keyboard." Definitely an F-122 guy.
Title: Re: Game: Match a historical character with a keyboard or switches.
Post by: tricheboars on Fri, 30 August 2013, 11:52:43
tesla seems like more of a hall effect kind of guy to me.

jimmy carter seems like a topre guy. i see him with a full realforce variable colored white.

president george w bush couldnt use a german or japanese designed switch since it wasnt made in 'murica. so probably some crap scissor switch board.

president clinton seems like a model m guy to me but at the same time this is too basic for him. he has some swagger so it has to at least have clacks.  not sure though...

Julius Caesar obviously uses a datamancer. 

Jesus Christ would use a very simple board with a beige case. perhaps a ssk with Aramaic legends?

barack obama seems to me like he would use a black hhkb. no flair, no clacks, just stock.

Vladimir Putin uses the original space cadet board.

andre the giant would use a omron switch board special made for his huge sausage fingers.

kim il sung, kim jong il, and kim jong un all use a DPRK issued mech that has capacitive blood switches.  these switches are special as they require the cupped rubber (which is actually the skin of political dissidents) and blood of an imperialist for the signal to reach the kimseey contoller. also they only work on windows '95 and use a serial port cable.

ghdafi had a solid gold 86u realforce board with uniform 55g switches. he got it to match his ak-47

i can keep going but i need to get back to work.
Title: Re: Game: Match a historical character with a keyboard or switches.
Post by: microsoft windows on Fri, 30 August 2013, 11:54:02
Bill Gates would use a rubber dome keyboard.