OC My hand wired “BBC Micro inspired” DIY TKL
[Rant] What happened to the UK ISO layout on dedicated keyboards?
Bit of a rant, but what happened for UK sellers to stop providing support for UK-ISO layouts? At best, you get a bastardised version of the UK layout wherein the usual US layout is preserved (’ and " sharing a key, 3 and #, 2 and @) and then the a £ symbol being slapped onto the 3 key to share with #, which is just plain...
June 1984 IBM Wheelwriter 5 Keyboard Assembly (Model M, P/N 1351000) (lemmy.world)
My current earliest IBM Model M based keyboard, and one of the earliest Model Ms ever recorded! Whilst the overall assembly design ‘language’ is clearly Model M, there are some unique features to such early IBM Wheelwriter 5 (and Wheelwriter 3 and Quietwriter 7) keyboards including O-rings around each populated buckling...
