[rescue] What would you pay for a Type 5 keyboard?

[Dave McGuire]

On 6/4/21 6:27 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>>> Raises hand ... I know people who work with injection molding machines.
>>>
>>> What do you need?B  I would say get the Cherry keycaps that are softer
>>> and less clicky, rather than make that part yourself.
>> B B  Well the idea here would be to make an *exact replica* of a Type 5 (or
>> Type 4) keyboard, not one "with some adjustments".B  Otherwise there's
>> really not much point.
> 
> Some people are more attached to the layout than the actual key feel.
> Maybe their aren't enough of them.

  Yeah there really are multiple considerations there; I hadn't really
thought of that.  Layout, key mechanism feel, key cap feel, size/heft,
etc.  Many factors.  For me, though, the Type 4 just checked all the
boxes.  I fell in love with it when I got my very first one, with a
SPARCstation-1+ in 1992.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA