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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: user 18 on Sat, 03 May 2014, 12:06:17

Title: ANSI stepped enter key?
Post by: user 18 on Sat, 03 May 2014, 12:06:17

Lots of people like stepped caps locks because (I assume) they don't want to hit it instead of the 'A'. I have a similar problem with hitting enter instead of ''' (yes I know that looks weird).

Does a stepped enter key exist, or is it not as good an idea as it sounds to me right now?

Title: Re: ANSI stepped enter key?
Post by: Photekq on Sat, 03 May 2014, 12:08:12

I've definitely never seen one of those on any keyboard.

Title: Re: ANSI stepped enter key?
Post by: Hak Foo on Sat, 03 May 2014, 12:34:06

I've seen some extremely old boards that way-- I think there are some PDFs of a early 80s Cherry catalog floating around with boards that way.

Title: Re: ANSI stepped enter key?
Post by: Photekq on Sat, 03 May 2014, 12:38:33

Quote from: Hak Foo on Sat, 03 May 2014, 12:34:06

I've seen some extremely old boards that way-- I think there are some PDFs of a early 80s Cherry catalog floating around with boards that way.

These ones?

http://deskthority.net/w/images/4/42/G80-0517.pdf
http://deskthority.net/w/images/f/f5/G80-0454-2.pdf
http://deskthority.net/w/images/3/3b/G80-0454.pdf
http://deskthority.net/w/images/0/05/G80-0312-2.pdf
http://deskthority.net/w/images/3/34/G80-0418.pdf
http://deskthority.net/w/images/3/34/G80-0312.pdf

Title: Re: ANSI stepped enter key?
Post by: user 18 on Sat, 03 May 2014, 13:54:36

Something like that would work, although I was hoping for something just stepped on the left.

ANSI enter is 2.25x iirc, so something with just a 0.5x step on the left side and a 1.75x key would be what I'm looking for. If it doesn't exist that's fine, I need to learn to type properly anyway.