[SATLUG] [OT] Custom keyboards

[herb cee]

John Chalinder wrote:
> Totally Awesome... I'll keep this in mind when I go to build my custom 
> desktop system next year. Thanks for the links. I think it would be 
> great to get back to a keyboard that feels right. These modern jobs 
> just don't feel right, and are the main cause of most of my typos. I 
> first learned touch typing on an old Smith Corona manual. My all time 
> favorite typewriter was an original IBM Selectric. Noisy, but what 
> fun! When I first got it I bought one type ball per month until I had 
> all the fonts I wanted. It kept me busy right up until I got my first 
> Apple II+ w/two Raina Elite III 5-1/4" dual sided, double density disk 
> drives, no hard drive (at $1000/MB, hard drives were way out of my 
> budget). With the addition of the 'language' board, I had a screaming 
> 64K of RAM! That, and an Epson dot-matrix printer and an acoustically 
> coupled 300 baud modem ... and I thought I was in computer heaven. 
> Compared to what I have now, of course, it was comparable to chipping 
> programs in stone. But, at the time I felt like I had some real power 
> under my fingertips. Today, my Toshiba Satellite P25 S607 laptop with 
> a 2.8GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM, an 80GB onboard hard drive and a 120GB 
> external hard drive is beginning to feel a bit slow. I guess it's all 
> a matter of perspective. This must be what it felt like for my father 
> when he was reminiscing about his first car, a 1930 Model A Ford 
> Roadster. He said one day I'd understand... :P
Yep my first was a 64kb trash three (TRS-3). and first car was a 1927 
Model T and I sure do understand. About six yrs ago i saw an auction on 
ebay for 5  old clicky IBM model M keyboards and I got them for $32 
shipped to me and I still have two never used and two used every day and 
one with a sticking space bar that I will keep for parts. I can type 
comfortable on them and yes I would love to have one of those rebuilt 
into that beautiful design but ....$..$..$ ... lol I couldn't even 
afford that 1/4" plate of brass to do it myself
....sigh... herb
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:11:41 -0600
>  Alan <alesmerises at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>> A friend of mine at work forwarded this to me.
>>
>> Remember the good old IBM clicky keyboards?  This guy made a 
>> customized keyboard using one and made it to look like an old-style 
>> manual typewriter:
>>
>>    http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml
>>
>> Also check out the link 
>> <http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm>. They're making 
>> and selling a variety of similar keyboards.  (They're only charging 
>> $800-$1000 each!)
>>
>>
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