Author Topic: Found this keyboard in the trash... (Read 4420 times)

lightsout714 · « **on:** Wed, 04 April 2012, 19:10:17 »

Alps? Its pretty dirty. The switch isn't that nice to type on. Its ok though. Its linear but a little mushy.

Lol it looks nasty in the pic.

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REVENGE · « **Reply #1 on:** Wed, 04 April 2012, 19:12:15 »

Rubber dome, 1800+ user.

lightsout714 · « **Reply #2 on:** Wed, 04 April 2012, 19:14:31 »

Lol I've never taken the caps off a rubber dome or had any reason to give a **** about them.

I fail

Plus what does post count have to do with anything. I obviously just post nonsense. I'll leave this up so everyone can get a laugh.

thegunner100 · « **Reply #3 on:** Wed, 04 April 2012, 19:15:41 »

Jeez... that is indeed nasty.

REVENGE · « **Reply #4 on:** Wed, 04 April 2012, 19:15:52 »

Quote from: lightsout714;567054

Lol I've never taken the caps off a rubber dome or had any reason to give a **** about them.

I fail

Plus what does post count have to do with anything. I obviously just post nonsense. I'll leave this up so everyone can get a laugh.

Haha no worries, I'm just giving you a hard time.

lightsout714 · « **Reply #5 on:** Wed, 04 April 2012, 19:16:50 »

:peep:

Funny because I expected a rubber dome to be... a rubber dome. But obviously the keys need to attach to something

Autolyze · « **Reply #6 on:** Wed, 04 April 2012, 19:21:12 »

Rubber domes can have a variety of different types of.. key mount things. They don't all look like that.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #7 on:** Wed, 04 April 2012, 20:19:15 »

Quote from: Autolyze;567067

Rubber domes can have a variety of different types of.. key mount things. They don't all look like that.

The semen,,, you forgot about the semen......

audioave10 · « **Reply #8 on:** Wed, 04 April 2012, 23:00:14 »

It was a good try because of the age...but you should put it back in the trash.

lightsout714 · « **Reply #9 on:** Wed, 04 April 2012, 23:35:05 »

Quote from: audioave10;567270

It was a good try because of the age...but you should put it back in the trash.

Ha yes I will. My wife actually brought it in as she saw me scoping some old keyboards one day.

Encryptor · « **Reply #10 on:** Wed, 04 April 2012, 23:57:05 »

Quote from: lightsout714;567283

Ha yes I will. My wife actually brought it in as she saw me scoping some old keyboards one day.

Wow, you have a nice wife! I wouldn't touch that keyboard without latex gloves. :puke:

mich · « **Reply #11 on:** Thu, 05 April 2012, 03:03:48 »

Quote from: lightsout714;567283

Ha yes I will. My wife actually brought it in as she saw me scoping some old keyboards one day.

Now imagine her reaction when you throw it back to trash

lightsout714 · « **Reply #12 on:** Thu, 05 April 2012, 08:44:46 »

Quote from: mich;567428

Now imagine her reaction when you throw it back to trash

She said look, an old crappy beige keyboard like you like. Is it any good. lol

captain · « **Reply #13 on:** Thu, 05 April 2012, 15:15:55 »

My HHKB ($500) is rubber dome! ;-)

Hente · « **Reply #14 on:** Thu, 05 April 2012, 16:02:20 »

Oh god that thing really is nasty... it looked okay in the thumbnail too.

Daniel Beardsmore · « **Reply #15 on:** Thu, 05 April 2012, 19:04:50 »

Wait ... a linear rubberdome? How does that work?

lightsout714 · « **Reply #16 on:** Thu, 05 April 2012, 20:12:10 »

Well I meant theres no bump or click. But kind of mush at the end. I call it linear

darksakul · « **Reply #17 on:** Thu, 05 April 2012, 21:50:14 »

burn it with fire

The keyboard I mean

noog · « **Reply #18 on:** Thu, 05 April 2012, 22:20:03 »

Dremel it. For science!!!!

Daniel Beardsmore · « **Reply #19 on:** Fri, 06 April 2012, 08:57:16 »

Quote from: lightsout714;568318

Well I meant theres no bump or click. But kind of mush at the end. I call it linear

I don't recall any rubberdome being linear; the way I understand it,they are tactile by design, even if the force curve varies and the key is nothing but mush when typed on (e.g. Apple BadDesign keyboard).

I did just turn on my BBC Micro though. As I kid, I just assumed that you had to bottom out, but for the first time I've tried typing gently on its linear switches without bottoming out. It is definitely quieter that way (but not silent, as the return is very loud on those switches) but I get a lot of dropped letters as there's no way to feel or hear when the key is actuating.

Magna224 · « **Reply #20 on:** Fri, 06 April 2012, 11:48:02 »

I tried the NMB rubber dome at goodwill once. I thought it was linear feeling too but very "frictiony".

Daniel Beardsmore · « **Reply #21 on:** Fri, 06 April 2012, 17:04:12 »

I find linear weird – on most keyboards, the key will pass the tactile point and drop to the bottom. Linear keyboards don't do that, and it's strange – you just keep pushing down and down at the same rate. Even my ultramush Apple BadDesign keyboard (with two \ keys by mistake) there's a tactile point, quite similar to a Cherry MX blue switch except buried in mush.

Unfortunately I haven't typed extensively on a linear keyboard since ~1998/9, so I forget how I perceived them before I switched entirely to tactile keyboards (I alternated betwen linear at school and a very tactile dome switch at home).

I really ought to get a Qpad in MX red as a test …

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