Sorry about the blurry pics. All I have is my cell phone camera.
Worth the money in my opinion and I'm glad I made the "switch".
Life is better when you own a Filco. Nobody gives you any grief for being a ****ty cameraman.
Congrats on your purchase!
Congrats. On the keyboard and the pun.
I'm waiting on my Filco to ship, but I should get it soon after the new year.
FKBN91M/JB
It's a tenkeyless Japanese layout keyboard with n-key rollover, and Cherry brown switches.
The first thing that I noticed when I took it out of the box is that, for a keyboard, this thing is heavy!
I do have to admit the MX Cherry "Blue" switches used in this model yield a lighter keypress and click than I was expecting. Not that I view that as a con mind you, I guess I just still had that old Model M experience in my head from when I was a kid lol, so I was expecting the typing characteristics to be similar to that.
I got a less than pleasant reminder of this an hour ago when my cat knocked my Filco Tenkeyless, which was on a precarious edge, onto my bare foot...
I don't have and blue Cherry keyboards but I'm hoping to snag one on ebay next time an old cheap one turns up since a lot of people here go crazy over the way those things feel. It looks like you sure like that there Filco you've got with a picture of one as an avatar.hey, maybe the members on this forum that you have 1200 posts on are onto something with this "awesome keyboards have a price" thing...
hey, maybe the members on this forum that i have 1200 posts on are onto something with this "awesome keyboards have a price" thing...
FKBN91M/JB
It's a tenkeyless Japanese layout keyboard with n-key rollover, and Cherry brown switches.
Iceman - Congrats on the new Filco. The blues are nice switches and Filco makes a good board.
Note to the Cherry blue lovers: Yes I said that the blues are nice switches! Just because I don't like them doesn't mean that they are bad it just means I prefer other switches. Besides they are nice switches and I would still have mine if the darn click had a little lower pitch.
Give it some time and don't force it and your fingers will just naturally adjust to the lighter force. Also don't worry about bottoming out the keys again with time and the confidence you gain over time that the key will register even though you did not bottom out the key will allow your fingers to adjust and as you adjust your typing speed may speed up as well. But what is really nice about a tactile switch is the more you use it your fingers will start to really feel the key and they will just know when the key registered. When you get to that point then you will really understand why we love our mechanical keyboards and the Topre boards.
should have fed your cat
hey, maybe the members on this forum that i have 1200 posts on are onto something with this "awesome keyboards have a price" thing...
It looks like you sure like that there Filco you've got with a picture of one as an avatar.
Cool I won't be the only one here on Japanese keyboards any more. Now that I've adjusted to the layout I'm really liking mine and now it is time to start experimenting with the extra keys. I'm really thinking about trying to put the Ctrl key on the Language shift keys because I think then I would not have to shift off the home position at all when hitting certain Ctrl combos.
Brown/Fukka/XM -> Blue LED
Black - > Red LED
Blue - > Green LED
Pink keyboards -> White LED
Nice. Wonder why they do that.
hey, maybe the members on this forum that you have 1200 posts on are onto something with this "awesome keyboards have a price" thing...
Wait. This is a forum? Not a typing practice website?
Now you tell me! Just as I thought my score was getting good.
Ah cool. Just curious what are the brown switches like compared to blues in regards to resistance (when pressed)?
The G80-3000 is pretty much the same as your POS 'board other than the layout. Feel-wise, you're not missing anything.
i have most of the popular switches now... but i was planning on getting a ...
Last week I set up a router at a friend's house, and she had a cheapo Logitech keyboard. My fingers just went down with a thud on every keystroke! I couldn't wait to get back to my mechanical keyboards. Even before I got my M1, I was using the KeyTronic LT Designer, which is not as bad as my friend's cheapo.
I just spent the day loading software on 80 desktops. There was a collection of logitech, microsoft, gateway, etc rubber dome keyboards at these machines.
They were all truly horrid to type on. Not a one of them had any redeeming value at all.
and another thing, vista sucks. its slow and ugly. at least on the machines that I saw today.
those company must be realy poor if they dont have a central software distribution service system.
80 rubber dome keyboards in one day and not one with a redeeming value? I'd call that...
Judgement Day!Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=6468&stc=1&d=1261008934)
80 rubber dome keyboards in one day and not one with a redeeming value? I'd call that...
Judgement Day!Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=6468&stc=1&d=1261008934)
those company must be realy poor if they dont have a central software distribution service system.
I hate that. My dad does a lot of freelance work, and, occassionally, I help him out if he's going to be out of town. I HATE working on somebody's POS, 386 SX 25 Packard Bell and trying to get Office 2007 to work in Windows 95 (after telling them repeatedly telling them it won't work). I felt the same way when I worked part time in a computer shop out of college. People would spend more money fixing their POS than they would just buy a new, entry-level PC. It's a damn shame.
Fortunately, my company provides me with a laptop. Otherwise, I would be one of those a-holes.
The site is quasi-federal ( I think, but they won't tell me for sure ) and uses a third party to manage their network. We did ask them if they could roll it out and have it install when the user logged in.
They weren't receptive, it seems they have alot of stuff starting automatically when the user logins and there was some conflict. They didn't care to elaborate and weren't very helpful. So they pushed it back on us.
The only requirement I needed was that outlook could not be running when the software package was installed. I thought that would be fairly trivial to do, but I guess not. I am not a windows guy but I thought MS was able to roll out software packages network wide with some degree of ease.
I am a phone guy; for some reason there can be some friction between me and the data guys. I don't know why though, maybe they don't like the questions that I ask, or admin credentials on the server I need to work or whatever.
I was able to do all 80 desktops in one day though. The software package took minutes to install and config as it was an upgrade to a previously broken package. What slowed me down is that some users were not at their desk but had there screens locked. I was able to login with my admin account but the package would fail if there was a copy of outlook running( which inevitably there was). I then I had to reboot the box.
To be fair, vista shuts down pretty quick, but takes a bit on boot up.
Sorry to be long-winded. This particular site has been problematic for me for the past 6 months and only now am I seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I really want this one to end.
I should add that the customers network is pretty sweet. They upgraded all of their layer 2 switches to accomodate the new VOIP infrastructure. I went into it pretty blind, in the future I would want to meet with the data vendor and talk about their network. Not everyone runs on 1 flat network, this site had 5 subnets plus the VPN and EVERYTHING is locked down. Was lots of fun getting VOIP traffic through the VPN from the remotes.
Never complain when somebody else's inefficiency provides you with paid work.
Never complain when somebody else's inefficiency provides you with paid work.
Never complain when somebody else's inefficiency provides you with paid work.
Having been in more than one nightmare situation involving fixing 5+ year old computers, I can happily say that my sanity is worth more than any money.
i asume they need a T3 connection to run everything? and perhaps they must send the admins back to school.
without making a new thread, can someone look at their filco and see whether the spacebar points 'toward' you (comfort) or 'away' (like topre)?
i feel like i might have not been paying attention when i took mine off. right now it is pointing 'away' from me, which makes it look good beside the other keys, but has that topre edge on it.
I have a question, not sure if it's deserving of it's own thread.
But do the "otaku" blank keycaps on filco's have the same type of key wear as the ones with letters?
Thanks