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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:29:54 +0900
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Subject: Re: [THS:20827] Little survey: which keyboard is the "hacker" keyboard?
From: Torsten Wagner <torsten.wag...@gmail.com>
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In my opinion, this blank keytops keyboards are in the category
"wannabe-Hacker".
I mean I do not care at all if there are lables on it or not...
mechanics is what counts.
A friend has a Realforce Keyboard which feels quite nice.

http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=3Dtopre_keyboards,rftenkeyless&p=
id=3Drf_se1700

In general if you lift a keyboard and it has a surprising weight... it
might be a good one ;)

At the moment I used a standard DELL because that was the only US
keyboard I could get here at work at my arrival.
Does its job but not really perfect.

And then do not forget the DataHand
http://www.datahand.com/overview/photos.htm
Just would like to see this in real and try it
Just curios


Totti



On 30 October 2012 12:20, Richard Frankum <richard.fran...@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Torsten Wagner
> <torsten.wag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hehehehe....
>>
>> I saw esp. the price tag >$1000 for a keyboard uhhhh....
>> I would even consider it if the mechanics is really outstanding... but
>> simply because of funny OLED pictures on each key.... don't know. I
>> don't look at my keyboard, I look at my screen. So why do I need OLED
>> displays on my keys?
>
> Last place I taught at, the trainees were allowed to bring their own
> keyboards / mice to the job. About a third of them had the Happy
> Hacking:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard
>
> All with blank keytops. Which works okay if you're touch-typing, not
> so much when your student has configured Wnn and a random
> international keyboard and you have to go fumbling to find the | key.
>
>> Totti
>
> --Richard
>
>> On 30 October 2012 11:42, Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Torsten Wag797       =80ner
>>> <torsten.wag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I was thinking of creating an OpenSource keyboard uC. With so fancy
>>>> features like keyboard macros, password manager, maybe an OLED display
>>>> for systems statistics, etc.
>>>>
>>> That sounds interesting!
>>>
>>> It will be hard to find open hardware keyboard ... cough, cough ...
>>> asked Google:
>>> http://www.key64.org/
>>> https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard
>>>
>>> (and I am sure you've seen this non-open
>>> http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/popularis/ )
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the link.
>>>> On 29 October 2012 22:50, Nava Whiteford <n...@sgenomics.org> wrote:
>>>>> I used to use a Cherry Click keyboard, those are rather nice but also=
 not
>>>>> co-worker friendly.
>>>>>
>>>>> I then started using mac mini keyboards, membrane, but I find them qu=
ite nice,
>>>>> but obviously being mac keyboards the keymap is annoying on Linux, I
>>>>> particularly hate installing weird keymaps on N machines and not havi=
ng a # key
>>>>> which is key I built my own keyboard controller:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://hackaday.com/2011/10/06/hardware-based-keyboard-remapping/
>>>>>
>>> Hey Nava, you should bring this project as show&tell to THS!
>>>
>>> Kalin.
>>>
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