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Offline Severe

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coming full circle on the HHKB
« on: Fri, 29 September 2017, 09:12:05 »
My Mechanical keyboard journey started when I first saw the HHKB. As soon as I saw it I had to have it, I didn't know anything about switches, PBT, or dye sublimation. I just knew I had to have that keyboard. So I got one

It was ****ing awesome

Then I discovered all the custom keycaps sets and all of the sudden I felt left out because you can't exactly get a wide range of cool sets on the HHKB

 
Sold the HHKB and ended up going through well over a thousand bucks chasing the enjoyment I got with the HHKB. I went through 4 Vortex Pok3rs of various swicthes, a couple Varmilo boards, two Plancks, Vortex Core, Filco, a DAS, 2 different realforce boards and an unhealthy addiction to ordering pretty much every set from pimpmykeyboard.

I discovered I really love the Cherry MX Clears, HATE linear switches, and the planck is a real Piece of **** quality wise, and that the combo of the Topre switch and the HHKB layout is my happy place,

I said **** it and ordered another HHKB last night. It gets here tomorrow. Even though I used to own 3 I haven't been this excited for a keyboard to get here in a long time

« Last Edit: Fri, 29 September 2017, 09:17:08 by Severe »
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Re: coming full circle on the HHKB
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 02 January 2018, 21:48:02 »
Welcome home.

As it is probably several months since this transpired, I assume that you have been happily reunited with oneness with cup rubber in HHKB layout.

How are you going?
"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

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