87u Topre that you can flip upside down to reveal a Filco with brown or blue cherries and a dampened switch plate to eliminate filco-reverb.
Trackpoint like IBM M13 but 4 programmable mouse buttons on the keyboard edge and some way to scroll, preferrably a modifier key to change trackpoint into scrollpoint.
USB ports on each end and far edge to allow hot plug of a tenkey built for the keyboard, so you could place the tenkey on either side of the keyboard, OR on the top edge of the keyboard toward either end.
Needy bastard.
Filco tenkeyless form factor and layout with buckling springs.
The M2 is around the size of a fullsize Filco... Just watch out for those capacitors!
My perfect keyboard is in progress.How are you going to manage adjustable when there's a keypad and trackball between the wells? You'd need a pretty damn fancy sliding mechanism to adjust the angle and separation of the wells while maintaining those things in the center. Even if you managed that, you'd still have a gap between the wells and center piece.
Artist's Concept:Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=9185&stc=1&d=1271468749)
- Form Factor - Kinesis Advantage, but adjustable
- FKeys - normal size (not Kinesis chicklet)
- Cursor Control - Trackball: Billiard-ball sized, centered between thumb keygroups; Buttons: 3-button with center button scroll feature
- Numeric keypad- centered between between finger keygroups
- Key Switch - Cherry blue
- Color Scheme - blue and black
- Connection - USB
- Programmable
87u Topre that you can flip upside down to reveal a Filco with brown or blue cherries...
How are you going to manage adjustable when there's a keypad and trackball between the wells? You'd need a pretty damn fancy sliding mechanism to adjust the angle and separation of the wells while maintaining those things in the center. Even if you managed that, you'd still have a gap between the wells and center piece.
I've still got two of them, however I've decided that tenkeyless is the way to go.
Have any of the kbdmania guys ever modded an M2 into a tenkeyless?
My perfect keyboard is in progress.
thats a kool design
Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=9186&stc=1&d=1271473572)
I love my ten(win)keyless dell ssaver (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:9542) but I need to swap all switch. The problem is I want NEW alps blue or pink switch. ;-)
(and I'm not even French)
I raped my NeXT and tossed it into the trash.
That's how Vintage I am.
Ti99/4a... My first computer and my avatar. :)
Here's a picture of my Kaypro, in case people have never seen one and don't know what the hell I'm talking about:Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=9716&stc=1&d=1273112887)
Just look at those lovely double-shot keys.
From a land before time, when the lost race of luggables roamed the earth.
Ti99/4a... My first computer and my avatar. :)
- optional hydraulics (for dust shaking and tilt adjustment?)
1-The adjustable part can be implemented with rack rail sliders; I have some 7" sliders. The central portion will be immobile on a base, while the R & L keygroups will adjust.
2-The 'enclosurre' will be sacrificed for adjustability. I saw a photograph from The Matrix in which a Kinesis Contour was de-enclosed and the keygroups mounted near each other. Sacrificing the enclosure for adjustability will be the last step, and has a close dependency to how effectively my thumbs can use the trackball while my palms are completely stationary (as I use the Kinesis Contour today).
3-A previous experiment (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:7955&&highlight=trackpad+kinesis) proved to me that I can't use a centrally-mounted tween-thumb trackpad without lifting my hands from my accustomed typing positions. I've been testing thumb-only trackball manipulation and have higher hopes.
4-An asymmetrica build with a small trackball on one thumb and a trackpoint under the other is a fallback plan. However a large ball and a symmmetrical design appeal to my aesthetic far more than this.
Das Kb Model 2 ... split like in the picShow Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=9705&stc=1&d=1273079938)
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splitted keyboard like kinesis contoured, with blue mx-switches and keypads arranged by an angel of 20-22°, flat not curved, also the thumb keys should be re-arranged! ..of course a trackpad or trackball located between the two keypads would be fine..
..more..in due time..
Although an angel of 20-22 along with a keyboard is not such a bad marketing idea.Usually, a keyboard is inclined at an angle of 10°-12°, however. On the other hand, an angel 20 to 22 years in age is something one has to find on one's own...
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Ideally, I want a sharp tactile response like buckling springs. However, I'd like slightly lower force, minimal pre-travel, and much longer available post-travel with progressively increasing force so I never bottom out.
Of course, these keys don't exist, and won't until I'm a zillionaire.
As a practical matter, I'm going to use hybrid ALPS switches with AEKII rubber-baby-buggy-bumper stems, and springs still to be determined. I've been looking into some kind of damped flexible mount for the switches to reduce the impact of bottoming out, but that will probably come to nothing.
I got completely the wrong idea when I read "by an angel of 20-22, flat not curved" :D
Although an angel of 20-22 along with a keyboard is not such a bad marketing idea.
The extra key on the "outside" of each thumb group would interfere with reaching the "inside" thumb keys, or require one to lift the palm higher for the thumb to reach inside keys. I'd suggest an extra key "below" each thumb group instead.
My dream keyboard has a layout pretty similar to the Canon Cat (http://www.regnirps.com/Apple6502stuff/apple_iie_cat.htm) (near bottom of page).
yes, it's a long story :DThe problem is that while vi may well do without all those extra keys, it's all those other programs out there that rely on them.
about the layout: i'm beginning to understand the appeal of the vi editor, and wanted to rely less on dedicated special-function keys. the green keys are user assignable, so arrows are one good use.
The problem is that while vi may well do without all those extra keys, it's all those other programs out there that rely on them.
To tell you guys the truth, the ideal keyboard for me would just be a run-of-the-mill Model M. I'm happy with the layout and love the feel of the buckling springs.
Have you typed on a Model F?I've used both kinds of original IBM keyboard, working with the PC and the AT. The Model M keyboard, with its layout putting both Shift keys, the Enter key, and the Backspace key, in the locations I was used to from a typewriter was a breath of fresh air.
The problem is that while vi may well do without all those extra keys, it's all those other programs out there that rely on them.
for last ergonomic adjustments the experimental test
phase of my ideal keyboard is still running..Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=12634&stc=1&d=1285576244)
(It is rumored that normal keyboard layouts and qwerty user are outdated.. :becky:)