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Custom mechanical keyboards, once you type on one, you'll never be able to go back to a regular keyboard.

Customizing the feeling, the aesthetics (keycaps), the emphasis on finishing quality (machining + anodization). It's incredibly addicting, and you can feel the difference in quality.

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I watched Boeing build a keyboard tray, cnc milled to a .0005 tolerance for $4,000 per station, 3 per airplane
 
A pic from last year. Sitting in my hotel in downtown Colorado Springs and I see this little gem at the stop light. It’s a beaut! 😍

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Custom mechanical keyboards, once you type on one, you'll never be able to go back to a regular keyboard.

Customizing the feeling, the aesthetics (keycaps), the emphasis on finishing quality (machining + anodization). It's incredibly addicting, and you can feel the difference in quality.

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I bet. Modern keyboards started to suck in 1981 with the introduction of the IBM PC. Then they went downhill from there. Sometime in the late 80s, some COMPLETE FUCKING IDIOT at IBM decided that moving the control key from its time honored location next to the "A" key, and putting the almost useless caps lock key there instead would be a fantastic idea. Later, sometime after Y2K, Apple got into the "screw with keyboard" game and decided that bringing back the "Chicklet" keyboard was a fantastic idea. In both cases, the PC industry followed this Lemming purge right over the cliff to the detriment of everyone. What's next for Apple - bring back the membrane keyboard? I threw away countless 1 button mice because Apple's religion insisted that they only supply them because Jobs said it was a Good Thing (tm). Everybody threw them out and went with 2 button mice as a minimum - but if Apple were to introduce a membrane keyboard, that too would be a Good Thing (tm)...

The above keyboard seems to be nice - despite that goddamn caps lock key being in the location where the control key is supposed to be. That key is stepped too - more of IBM's nonsense, but as its the only key that is and its a useless one besides, that's forgivable. The keycaps seem to be the correct size, and there's actually a bit of slope and steps between the rows of keys.

IBM had the BEST keyboard in the world in 1981 - the one on the IBM Selectric typewriter. Instead of adapting that, they gave us a horrid flat thing with a weird layout, several stepped keys, key legends in the upper left corner of the keycaps, and worst of all - it was NOISY! I've been cussing keyboards ever since, and they haven't gotten better. Thank Goddess that all OSes now have a way to at least fix the control key baloney - but it wasn't always that way and I hardware hacked more than one keyboard in my time to fix it years back.
 
I bet. Modern keyboards started to suck in 1981 with the introduction of the IBM PC. Then they went downhill from there. Sometime in the late 80s, some COMPLETE FUCKING IDIOT at IBM decided that moving the control key from its time honored location next to the "A" key, and putting the almost useless caps lock key there instead would be a fantastic idea. Later, sometime after Y2K, Apple got into the "screw with keyboard" game and decided that bringing back the "Chicklet" keyboard was a fantastic idea. In both cases, the PC industry followed this Lemming purge right over the cliff to the detriment of everyone. What's next for Apple - bring back the membrane keyboard? I threw away countless 1 button mice because Apple's religion insisted that they only supply them because Jobs said it was a Good Thing (tm). Everybody threw them out and went with 2 button mice as a minimum - but if Apple were to introduce a membrane keyboard, that too would be a Good Thing (tm)...

The above keyboard seems to be nice - despite that goddamn caps lock key being in the location where the control key is supposed to be. That key is stepped too - more of IBM's nonsense, but as its the only key that is and its a useless one besides, that's forgivable. The keycaps seem to be the correct size, and there's actually a bit of slope and steps between the rows of keys.

IBM had the BEST keyboard in the world in 1981 - the one on the IBM Selectric typewriter. Instead of adapting that, they gave us a horrid flat thing with a weird layout, several stepped keys, key legends in the upper left corner of the keycaps, and worst of all - it was NOISY! I've been cussing keyboards ever since, and they haven't gotten better. Thank Goddess that all OSes now have a way to at least fix the control key baloney - but it wasn't always that way and I hardware hacked more than one keyboard in my time to fix it years back.

Keyboards have definitely gotten progressively worse over the years. Anyone that asks for a good keyboard, I tell them to buy a gaming keyboard now. Cherry MX Red switches seem to be the most popular now for around $75+. I have one at home and considering buying one for work.

Regarding the caps lock key, I still see many people that don't seem to know what the shift key is for. I want to slap people when they need a cap so they turn on caps lock, type the letter they need, then turn it off. YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! Apparently not everyone took typing class.

Since it's a picture thread, here's what people in IT do to mess with your keyboard. This wasn't mine, but at my work. I told them it might take me a while to even notice.

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Keyboards have definitely gotten progressively worse over the years. Anyone that asks for a good keyboard, I tell them to buy a gaming keyboard now. Cherry MX Red switches seem to be the most popular now for around $75+. I have one at home and considering buying one for work.

Regarding the caps lock key, I still see many people that don't seem to know what the shift key is for. I want to slap people when they need a cap so they turn on caps lock, type the letter they need, then turn it off. YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! Apparently not everyone took typing class.

Since it's a picture thread, here's what people in IT do to mess with your keyboard. This wasn't mine, but at my work. I told them it might take me a while to even notice.

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A hunt and peck individual I am not, but that key board would scramble my brain!!! :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Some pics from my Saturday adventure! (400+ mile trip to get a new cell phone)

Snow capped ridge about 20 miles south of town, headed to get the new phone.
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Sunset on my way home about 100 miles from home. One of the 3 Buttes, just south of EBR-1.
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Jet streams and stars from home. (The new phone's camera pulls in night shots nicely. @Wildman can attest how dark it gets out here.
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I bet. Modern keyboards started to suck in 1981 with the introduction of the IBM PC. Then they went downhill from there. Sometime in the late 80s, some COMPLETE FUCKING IDIOT at IBM decided that moving the control key from its time honored location next to the "A" key, and putting the almost useless caps lock key there instead would be a fantastic idea. Later, sometime after Y2K, Apple got into the "screw with keyboard" game and decided that bringing back the "Chicklet" keyboard was a fantastic idea. In both cases, the PC industry followed this Lemming purge right over the cliff to the detriment of everyone. What's next for Apple - bring back the membrane keyboard? I threw away countless 1 button mice because Apple's religion insisted that they only supply them because Jobs said it was a Good Thing (tm). Everybody threw them out and went with 2 button mice as a minimum - but if Apple were to introduce a membrane keyboard, that too would be a Good Thing (tm)...

The above keyboard seems to be nice - despite that goddamn caps lock key being in the location where the control key is supposed to be. That key is stepped too - more of IBM's nonsense, but as its the only key that is and its a useless one besides, that's forgivable. The keycaps seem to be the correct size, and there's actually a bit of slope and steps between the rows of keys.

IBM had the BEST keyboard in the world in 1981 - the one on the IBM Selectric typewriter. Instead of adapting that, they gave us a horrid flat thing with a weird layout, several stepped keys, key legends in the upper left corner of the keycaps, and worst of all - it was NOISY! I've been cussing keyboards ever since, and they haven't gotten better. Thank Goddess that all OSes now have a way to at least fix the control key baloney - but it wasn't always that way and I hardware hacked more than one keyboard in my time to fix it years back.
I used Wordstar. You could move the cursor around the screen with the control key and the left hand keys. Line up or down, end of word, endof line, etc. Way more efficient than a mouse. Would like to shoot whoever moved the 'caps lock' key to where the control key belongs. Constantly hitting the damned 'caps lock' key and having to go back and erase what I just typed. My fix is to pry the key cap off the 'caps lock' key and not have to worry about accidentally hitting it anymore. Feel a need to use the 'caps lock' about once a year.
 
I used Wordstar. You could move the cursor around the screen with the control key and the left hand keys. Line up or down, end of word, endof line, etc. Way more efficient than a mouse. Would like to shoot whoever moved the 'caps lock' key to where the control key belongs. Constantly hitting the damned 'caps lock' key and having to go back and erase what I just typed. My fix is to pry the key cap off the 'caps lock' key and not have to worry about accidentally hitting it anymore. Feel a need to use the 'caps lock' about once a year.
I actually wrote a WordStar clone text editor for programming use years back because nobody else had one. I still run WS 4.0 on occasion, although it won't run on most modern computers - best editor every written. I guarantee I can outrun anybody using a mouse if I'm on WS. I've been messing around with some source code on and off to see if I can write another WS clone that will work on modern systems. I've also heard that EMACS can use WS keybindings - although how well I don't know. A bad WS implementation would be worse than none at all.

But Windows, Mac and Linux all have ways to move the control key back to where it belongs in software. It still says "caps lock", but its actually now control. Shooting the sumbitch at (presumably) IBM that moved the stupid caps lock key would be too kind - unless it was multiple abdomen shots with a .25!
 
For those who've never experienced the way creeks freeze, it's from the bottom up not the top down. Slush builds up on the rocks, then slowly increases and creates ice shelves. (Ice shelf pics to come later this winter.)

Here's a few pics of the early stages of Ice Shelf formation.
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