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I just installed it, and immediately had to promise my wife that I won't use it when she's trying to sleep.

If you have an original IBM black label modded by Phosphorglow, then you have a primo specimen which sets a high bar for comparison.

That is absolutely right. I actually have two such boards, and they are both excellent. You definitely get more than your money's worth from him.

but for a casual ...

I have a 1991 1391401 Phosphorglow Model M that lives at work, and a Unicomp Classic that lives at my home office. Recently I blanked the Unicomp. After using it at home for a while, I took it to work with me and swapped it for the M, just to see how well I could code on it.

The answer turned out ...

My post office uses Access-IS from what I can tell. (MX black, English Tipro.) But they use them behind armored glass so I haven't tried shooting a picture. In Scotland, Post Offices are occasionally robbed at gunpoint you see.

Imagine my eye rolling surprise when no post office is like that here ...

photekq wrote: Rubberdome

I don't think so:

Order a black set plus the right shift in another color, and then order enough other modifiers in that same color to complete the board.

http://i50.tinypic.com/22tua.jpg

Or, wait for another blank black complete set to show up on ebay (there has been a few since Unicomp ran out of black right ...

Hear, hear! chzel, (or is it here, here!)

This seems like much ado about nothing, OP said " My feeling is that I'm only having to customize because they can't fill the order I would prefer to make, namely a fully black set, so they should eat the fee."

I'm emphasizing the my, I and they because ...

[…] I don't see where the extra cost is to them. It's just grabbing keys out of bins and putting them in a bag either way, and I can't see how reaching into the gray bin instead of the black bin can cost them $10 that they need to recoup. […]
You seem to have a weird conception of how a business ...

I've encountered this missing black Shift issue because of people wanting the black set in my GB. What I'm doing is buying the black set with the missing cap, and a single blank right Shift cap, which they can dye. Alternatively, buy a whole set in the same colour and dye all the caps together. You ...

Also, it's worth pointing out that it doesn't matter who's right: Unicomp have given you their terms, and since they have the monopoly it's tough shit if you disagree.

That's certainly true, but whether I decide to spend the $30 is going to depend at least partly on whether I feel right about the ...

I have a black Unicomp Ultra Classic that I want to put blank keycaps on. Ideally I'd like to use black caps, but the black blanks are gone from Unicomp's website, so I emailed them to ask. They say they don't have any more right-shift keys in black and I can substitute another color (gray, probably ...

~3 years ago I bought a Achieva Shimian 27" 2560x1440 IPS for 300$ shipped that has the same identical panel with the Apple Cinema Display which was ~1500$.

You can buy one now for ~200$ shipped (and this one overclocks to 120Hz as well) or for 500-700$ you can get a 39-49" 3840x2160 IPS monitor ...

andrewjoy wrote: or they could just make the Pebble one in an upper LED version

I wish they would. The stock overlay is dreadful. It has the Unicomp logo on it that looks like it was created in Microsoft Paint.

Assuming both cables are using the same color coding, reversing green and white should work. If you want to test it ahead of time, get a meter and check continuity from connector to the contacts on the USB end.

andrewjoy wrote: Do they do a blank one ? Then you could just remove the LEDs and rock a silver label / 102 terminal style look

They do, in fact:

I have had that happen on my laptop keyboard. It's usually the result of some sort of fatfinger tangle-up where I press too many keys at once. I can't reproduce it, but it always follows that kind of thing. What OS are you running?

Blank caps looking really nice. I just hate Unicomp's led overlay logo.

Edit- I wish they would make black and pebble versions mimicking the IBM original LED overlay.

You can buy that kind of overlay from Unicomp for restoring old IBM boards, but they won't work on the current production boards ...

Excellent. You answered the question literally and I learned something, and then you answered the question I meant to ask. :) I have never heard of blank original-IBM sets either. I would think they'd have been useful for schools, so there is reason to wonder if they exist. I think I want to convert ...

Thanks. It's my first blank board. I took it to work today to see if I could code with it as well as type on it. It's generated a lot of comment from coworkers. The guy in the cube next to me asked if he could try it, and sat down and typed out a perfect paragraph. I was impressed.

Under the ...

The more I think about it, the less my comment about large application space (across dual monitors, for instance) is going to resonate in this thread. We're talking about a population that really likes its tiny keyboards, which means a population that is probably working with tiny monitors, like on ...

They were, as I recall.

bocahgundul wrote: Wheres the image bro?

It's a link to someone's G+ post. I just edited it to point somewhere else, maybe you can see it now.

Linkert wrote: I've been sitting in front of the computer like some Quasimodo look-alike for the entirety of my early teen years, up to around the age of ~22, being half way to 26 years old right now.

So you plan to continue hunching for another 9 years until you turn 22?

I also typically use two monitors, but one is facing me while the other is off to the right. The one facing me is the active work window, whereas the one on the right contains the reference material I'm using to do the work. That's an oversimplification, of course, but it's mostly true. This is ...

If the caption is to be believed, this was a vision of the future from 1971:



Now, I know it's a typewriter, but look at the keyboard. It's an ergo board. In 1971. On a typewriter.

Also, hot pants.

Bought the blanks from Unicomp when I bought the board to save on shipping, just never got around to putting them on until tonight.

They're not super consistent about the colors of the stems:

http://xec.net/share/blankunicomp1.jpg

But it came out looking pretty good when all done:

http://xec ...

Hi everyone, been reading for a while but this is my first post here, so I figured why not jump into the deep end and join this irresolvable debate. :)

I see three main arguments being made in favor of compact boards: desk space, right hand mouse position, and keeping your fingers on the home row ...