deskthority

Ovioulsy anything before the advent of home / personal computers in mass production I'd say.

The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o ... _computers

zslane wrote:

mr_a500 wrote: I far prefer the "elegance and class" of the pre-beige era.

What do you define as the pre-beige era?

The beige era was the point at which the IBM PC clones flooded the market, causing basically every computer maker (non PC compatibles too) to switch to the beige colour scheme (and cylindrical keycaps) - around 1984/85 - the pre-beige era then being pre-1984. (though there is some overlap 1983-1985)

I remember when the beige era came in - and I hated it. I liked the earlier days of dark double-shot spherical keycaps, lots of black/silver/brown/blue colour schemes.

codemonkeymike wrote: Must be talking about the vinyl wood grain era

Nah, I never managed to get a wood grain computer (such a shame).

...of course Apple was beige long before 1984. They were beige from the beginning - even before IBM went beige. HP was beige in the early 70's (and Woz worked at HP before starting Apple). The "king of beige" was probably Univac. They were beige in the 60's.

mr_a500 wrote: The beige era was the point at which the IBM PC clones flooded the market, causing basically every computer maker (non PC compatibles too) to switch to the beige colour scheme (and cylindrical keycaps) - around 1984/85 - the pre-beige era then being pre-1984. (though there is some overlap 1983-1985)

I remember when the beige era came in - and I hated it. I liked the earlier days of dark double-shot spherical keycaps, lots of black/silver/brown/blue colour schemes.

I feel the same as you, man. I hate how the Model F/M utterly ruined keyboard aesthetics for generations to come.

With regard to terminology, I dislike how the drab dual-gray look of the Model F/M became known as "beige". The Apple II, III, Lisa, and Macintosh were more beige than the IBM PC, yet somehow the IBM products--which leeched all color from their product aesthetics--get called beige (instead of gray, or warm gray).

I used to hate IBM for that, but then I realized it was the clone makers that fucked everything up. So now I just hate Compaq.

Edit: ...and the Germans... you got to hate Germans. Damn European keyboard standards!
"Just kidding." [he said while nervously looking side to side to see if any Germans were coming to kill him]

Before:
... and after:
At this point (Hasu's alternative controller, TMK firmware, MX-compatible stems etc.), this keyboard is a proper cyborg

Nice keycaps, I also got my VIMcaps some time ago, I think they go really nicely with that beige OG keycaps. I think if you join the coming Hadapter round and replace the arrow keycaps with some diamond ones, it will look even better.

Thanks - yes, the arrows are the only keys that don't show what they should (but that doesn't bother me); frankly I'm not a big fan of the diamond logo ... any other "proper" logo would be nicer I think.

hypkx wrote:Nice keycaps, I also got my VIMcaps some time ago, I think they go really nicely with that beige OG keycaps. I think if you join the coming Hadapter round and replace the arrow keycaps with some diamond ones, it will look even better.

wait. all arrow keycaps=diamonds??
why not something fresh like circles or so?

(I really want a Illuminati-R1 keycap atm btw)

edit: just loaded the pic, atm slow internet.
Now I get what you mean

And the green HJKL strikes again!
.. it's the Bigfoot Keyborg!

Ahah, looks great!

You dyed them, right?

Ran out of daylight to take some keyboard pics but captured the vintage Cherry key caps. I love these types of key caps.

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snuci wrote: Ran out of daylight to take some keyboard pics but captured the vintage Cherry key caps. I love these types of key caps.

Vintage Cherry key caps.jpg

Those are terrific, snuci! They are what I call the real "OG Cherry" keycaps.

@laser
Cool, dyed by you?

ramnes wrote: Ahah, looks great!

You dyed them, right?

Mr.Nobody wrote: @laser
Cool, dyed by you?

Nope, bought them from Karandach here on DT - I understand they are from a BS typewriter

Today I made a acrylic backplate for my custom plate that I got at Berlin Meetup as gift, I think it turned out really nice.

Very nice hypkx. Keep us updated on that project.

Laser wrote: Before:

HHKB.JPG

... and after:

HHKB-Vim.JPG

At this point (Hasu's alternative controller, TMK firmware, MX-compatible stems etc.), this keyboard is a proper cyborg

Rebellious yet good looking outfit. Eiiti Wada is an Emacs user you know.

@hypkx, nice!

Menuhin wrote:
Rebellious yet good looking outfit. Eiiti Wada is an Emacs user you know.

I wonder how he presses Hyper-Super-Ctrl-Alt-Del-<Up Arrow> or something But with the evil-mode Vim emulation package, Emacs can really be used with the HHKB

alienman82 wrote: @ramnes thanks for the great finds link! Finally got it

Niiiice, glad you got it!

Laser wrote:

ramnes wrote: Ahah, looks great!

You dyed them, right?

Mr.Nobody wrote: @laser
Cool, dyed by you?

Nope, bought them from Karandach here on DT - I understand they are from a BS typewriter

There was only HJKL in green or all the alphas were green?

All alphas - it's not quite a full set (i.e. the "]" "[" keys are missing, and maybe some more), probably all the alpha keys on that (unknown for me) typewriter.

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Well interesting, so they are dyed after all

Black numpad

:gasp

I downsized my keyboard spending this month

More Micro Switch Slom?

Yeah I need to get some of them working. And I need to get into case building ...

Clueboard CNC — Leopold PBT caps, Ergo Clear 62g (65g on the space bar), clipped Cherry stabilizers, everything lubed & sound dampening mat :









Very happy with how this one turned out.