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Offline jacobolus

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122-key space invader board
« on: Fri, 06 June 2014, 00:04:11 »
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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 06 June 2014, 00:33:39 »
Wow, awesome find! That'll make one of our ISO lovers very happy for sure.
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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 06 June 2014, 06:57:37 »
How do you know that it is Space Invaders?
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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 06 June 2014, 07:24:50 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Fri, 06 June 2014, 06:57:37
How do you know that it is Space Invaders?


There is a photo of a switch.

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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 06 June 2014, 08:06:39 »
I bought this board because I want the black switches (and what look to be very nice key caps) for another project.

I hate to take it apart, but I have been looking for a bunch of cheap black switches for a long time.

This looks like a very nice keyboard that somebody might want, as-is.

Make me a cash offer I can't refuse, and I won't refuse it, but I would also be very interested in trades involving broken keyboards that I can harvest 100+ black Hi-Tek switches from.

I also have enough white switches to re-transplant into this board to make a linear version, if that might appeal to anyone.
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"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 06 June 2014, 13:30:48 »
Woah, space invader board with a full size backspace... I wasn't sure that this existed.
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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 07 June 2014, 00:36:28 »
What project are you going to do with them, fohat?
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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #7 on: Sat, 07 June 2014, 07:56:20 »
I finally found an true-ANSI-layout Hi-Tek board (in Apple layout, but my PC reads it conventionally) with white Hi-Teks and I intend to transplant the blacks.

Also, it has great-feeling PBT caps that are unbelievably retarded to look at, so this weekend I will try to determine if these mods will work.
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"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #8 on: Sat, 07 June 2014, 13:52:01 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 07 June 2014, 07:56:20
Also, it has great-feeling PBT caps that are unbelievably retarded to look at, so this weekend I will try to determine if these mods will work.
I don't believe you.

Looking forward to this mod.
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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #9 on: Sat, 07 June 2014, 16:51:15 »
Quote from: dorkvader on Sat, 07 June 2014, 13:52:01

I don't believe you.


Which part don't you believe, Sam? The part about the standard layout? I hardly believed it myself! I was ecstatic when I actually had it in my hands and properly connected through a PS/2 plug.

Already pulled the caps and started cleaning.

As always, the part about Hi-Tek keys being utterly impossible is all too true.
« Last Edit: Sat, 07 June 2014, 17:34:20 by fohat.digs »
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"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #10 on: Sat, 07 June 2014, 18:11:16 »
You should also dye and paint it, when done with the swapping of switches.
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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #11 on: Sat, 07 June 2014, 18:17:18 »
Quote from: dorkvader on Sat, 07 June 2014, 13:52:01
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 07 June 2014, 07:56:20
Also, it has great-feeling PBT caps that are unbelievably retarded to look at, so this weekend I will try to determine if these mods will work.
I don't believe you.

Looking forward to this mod.

Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 07 June 2014, 16:51:15
Quote from: dorkvader on Sat, 07 June 2014, 13:52:01

I don't believe you.


Which part don't you believe, Sam? The part about the standard layout? I hardly believed it myself! I was ecstatic when I actually had it in my hands and properly connected through a PS/2 plug.

Already pulled the caps and started cleaning.

As always, the part about Hi-Tek keys being utterly impossible is all too true.


No that's awesome, and I totally believe you about the board (though I do appreciate the pictures). I meant that I didn't believe those PBT keycaps look "unbelievably ugly".

In retrospect, I think I should have phrased my response better, and I do apologize for that.
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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #12 on: Sat, 07 June 2014, 19:05:34 »
Quote from: dorkvader on Sat, 07 June 2014, 18:17:18
those PBT keycaps look "unbelievably ugly".

Actually, they are not "ugly" so much as just stupid and useless.

They are green on beige, which normally would send me over the moon, but they are the most ridiculous font I have ever seen, extremely narrow and vertical, so as to be unreadable, and jammed hard tight against the left side of the keys.

They make the old regular Apple italic fonts, which I loathe, look like the picture of legibility and normalcy.
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"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #13 on: Mon, 09 June 2014, 13:21:27 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 07 June 2014, 19:05:34
Quote from: dorkvader on Sat, 07 June 2014, 18:17:18
those PBT keycaps look "unbelievably ugly".

Actually, they are not "ugly" so much as just stupid and useless.

They are green on beige, which normally would send me over the moon, but they are the most ridiculous font I have ever seen, extremely narrow and vertical, so as to be unreadable, and jammed hard tight against the left side of the keys.

They make the old regular Apple italic fonts, which I loathe, look like the picture of legibility and normalcy.

I was meaning to ask what "caps that are unbelievably retarded to look at" meant; but your explanation is awesome.   :thumb:
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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #14 on: Mon, 09 June 2014, 14:14:57 »
They look worse in real life.
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"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

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Re: 122-key space invader board
« Reply #15 on: Mon, 09 June 2014, 15:27:30 »
Wow, that's crazy. Looks like Arial Narrow.
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