IBM 3179 Model F

[daedalus]

I intend on doing some nifty mods with this thing. So far, I have only got to fit it up with a set of APL keycaps from Unicomp (one is not on the keyboard as I have yet to convert the keyboard from ISO to ANSI), and some numpad keys from an IBM 3161 terminal keyboard. Keycap swapping is very much work in progress -



It will be adapted using a microcontroller-based adapter so I don't have to wank around with software mappings. Whenever my exams are over, I will be working on it, and post more details.

[Crazy9000]

It always amazes me how large these are .

[xbb]

Really nice, they still sell those APL caps?

[The Solutor]

Looks more a tombraider's puzzle than a keyboard...

[webwit]

Don't understand the fascination for APL caps. It's.. an ancient programming language. They interest me as much as the WordPerfect or Cyrillic keycaps, i.e. not at all.

[Brian8bit]

With all that blank space I would get a custom air brushed design on it. Like when truckers draw fantasy bitches in bear skins holding swords on the sides of their trucks.

[webwit]

I wouldn't change the truckers' design.

[Brian8bit]

Nor would I. Except maybe have a wolf howling silhouetted against the moon or something.

[webwit]

A Model F like that on your desk is a sure babe magnet.

[webwit]

Not all Monster Fs are equal.







Not the biggest dimensions, but I still like Bigfoot. It's all in the legs.

[xbb]

lol the last picture, it reminds me a beach deckchair.

[daedalus]

That bottom one is a Model M (the early ones that were of the same style as the Model F ones). The Ms actually have a better quality case (the plastic on the F breaks relatively easily, I have a chip out of mine on the underside). On the flipside, instead of having a plastic underside, the F has a metal plate which weighs more than a fullsize Topre Realforce.

[daedalus]

ANSI conversion in progress

[Ascaii]

ANSI conversion in progress

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daedalus, destroyer of iso-worlds

[webwit]

[daedalus]

Current mock-up



I'm just waiting on some stuff to make the adapter, and some keycaps from Unicomp. Soon, beast-keyboard shall be mine!

[webwit]

Needs Red Escape. Small LCD screen and touchpad left and right of the function keys. Pinup girl to the far top right. Rear view mirrors on the sides.

[daedalus]

Currently typing on the board. At the moment, I have a very crude adapter assembled outside the keyboard. I think instead I am just going to remove the original cable, put the microcontroller inside the keyboard, and use header pins to directly connect the keyboard's controller to it.

[Findecanor]

Don't understand the fascination for APL caps. It's.. an ancient programming language.

Back in 2007, I visited a company that had a product that was written in APL. All the developers' keyboards that I saw were Model M:s with the special key set.
I saw and ad from them earlier this year that they were looking for more APL programmers.

[Southparkfan1999]

imo there is a typing nirvana and its the ibm model f 122 i love showing it to people who have never seen one and its always the same reaction

[cloudhax]

https://qelle.tumblr.com/post/92946141766/consoles-1985

[andrewjoy]

You have a tab key on the numberpad! This pleases me!