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Re: I Built a Keyboard

From RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: I Built a Keyboard
Date 2014-10-21 17:42 +0000
Message-ID <20141021174211.b3d55a9a.rsw@therandymon.com> (permalink)
References <GbQKTAiEB/GthwZUxclfIrgz@dont-email.me> <m23lnd$4ft$1@solani.org> <alpine.LNX.2.02.1410201608520.2911@darkstar.example.org> <E6h1w.798572$Fy6.63030@fx25.am4> <m263ss$2d1$1@dont-email.me>

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> Come to think of it, it only had three rows and you used the shift key for
> numbers and symbols...kinda like today's smartphone keyboards.
> 
> I'm pretty sure the IBM Selectrics my high-school typing class used had full
> keyboards as we know them now, but then they're a long way tech-wise from a
> mechanical typewriter. :-) 


My next keyboard may very seriously be this: it's too fun not to have, although I suspect the actual key properties (stiffness, tactile feedback, etc.) are not that good for the serious typist.  Still, nostalgia warrants:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/150436476/commodore-64-usb-keyboard

Instructions for making your own here, via Hackaday:
http://hackaday.com/2014/07/17/make-that-c64-keyboard-work-as-a-usb-keyboard/

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I Built a Keyboard Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-19 13:50 +0000
  Re: I Built a Keyboard whiskers@sleepy.cat - 2014-10-19 15:28 +0000
    Re: I Built a Keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-10-19 14:38 -0400
  Re: I Built a Keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-10-20 18:53 +0000
    Re: I Built a Keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-10-20 16:09 -0400
      Re: I Built a Keyboard "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-10-21 00:42 +0100
        Re: I Built a Keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-10-20 22:13 -0400
          Re: I Built a Keyboard "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-10-21 10:43 +0100
        Re: I Built a Keyboard scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-10-21 17:07 +0000
          Re: I Built a Keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-10-21 17:42 +0000
          Re: I Built a Keyboard Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-21 23:20 +0000
        Re: I Built a Keyboard Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2014-10-22 14:23 +0100
          Re: I Built a Keyboard "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-10-23 14:22 +0100
            Re: I Built a Keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-10-23 14:03 -0400
            Re: I Built a Keyboard Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-10-23 22:03 +0200
              Re: I Built a Keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-10-24 15:44 -0400

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