I was thinking about gettings momos. How tactile are they compared to other switches?
Smooth, fairly similar to T1s.
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great photo. That green looks really nice.
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ngl i may have gotten all gray leopold caps after seeing you post this Urbi with an all gray set. or maybe it was BoB.
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Mode Eighty sounds pretty good! It kind of reminds me of Jenga blocks clicking together. I’m still testing out a couple of different plate setups on it, but I’m hoping to have my full review up soon!
Thank you! I think green anodized aluminum is one of my current favorite looks!
Hard to beat
Finally found my prophet and got it put together. I saw somewhere that it felt really nice with tactile switches but the only ones I had were mod Ms (which I’ve actually been wanting to use for a while) but I was having issues with the leaves when putting them back together but luckily I have tons and tons of linears, so I ended up putting some box creams (just stock no lube for now). It’s really nice and bouncy, similar typing feel to my mechankisk type X imo.
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Wait, what?
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@SharktasticA details please. What amazing keeb sorcery is this?
I’m not Sharktastic, but it’s a IBM M50 keypad with an IBM 4707 monitor!
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Hmm, a split keyboard for 3-handed people?
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Finally, a keyboard for Zaphod Beeblebrox
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Correct!
Tell me about it!
To be fair, it’s not really supposed to be a keyboard. The M50’s tri-partition layout is inherited from its F50 predecessor, and both were supposed to be functional keypads for the IBM 4704 terminal of the 4700 financial communication system (well in the M50’s case, for use with emulating IBM 4700 apps on then-newer PS/2 era hardware). For some reason, IBM decided to later make alphanumeric variants like this (likely, for low yield input given the layout) along with macro-orientated ones. I’ve since tweaked the layout a little, but alas this is definitely not in its element. The separations do have a purpose though - for example, the third (4x5) section was clearly designed for an expanded numeric keypad.
If you’re curious what the original alphanumeric layout looked like before I touched it:
Indeed, you can see some of the monetary legends from its 4700 origins. I’m sure they envisioned typing on this would be a “pecking with your index fingers” ordeal and only done once in a while… I hope.
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