BUCKLESPRING:

A Linux package that emulates an IBM 5150 M Keyboard... add it, run it and BAM - yer new computer is clickity clacking like yer 1980 metal grey box. :P

I'm STILL laughing, as I type this... I think I'll leave that app running a bit stinking longer! LOL.

Checkout Bucklespring, if only for the quick laughs... Its fairly fun.



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Re: Bucklespring: Fun, stupid packages..
By: paulie420 to All on Mon Jan 18 2021 06:02 pm

A Linux package that emulates an IBM 5150 M Keyboard... add it, run it and BAM - yer new computer is clickity clacking like yer 1980 metal grey box. Checkout Bucklespring, if only for the quick laughs... Its fairly fun.

Have you checked out the mechnical keyboard forums? There are some real obsessives out there, building their own keyboards by assembling switches, keycaps, and frames. Limited editions by famous "keyboard designers" that can cost half-a-grand. Crazy town.

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On 18 Jan 2021, paulie420 said the following...

A Linux package that emulates an IBM 5150 M Keyboard... add it, run it
and BAM - yer new computer is clickity clacking like yer 1980 metal grey box. :P

I'm STILL laughing, as I type this... I think I'll leave that app
running a bit

Hahaha crazy, I'll have to look it up. I prolly won't use it though myself as that clickety clack always wound me up when I used to use my dad's computer with one of them keyboards. I couldn't use it without him knowing.

I use Cherry MX silent keys on my keyboard =)

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A Linux package that emulates an IBM 5150 M Keyboard... add it, run i BAM - yer new computer is clickity clacking like yer 1980 metal grey Checkout Bucklespring, if only for the quick laughs... Its fairly fun

Have you checked out the mechnical keyboard forums? There are some real obsessives out there, building their own keyboards by assembling
switches, keycaps, and frames. Limited editions by famous "keyboard designers" that can cost half-a-grand. Crazy town.

Bob Roberts

I've seen some cool mechanical keyboard setups; I haven't paid the price of admission, tho, and am pretty stoked about this software solution. LOL. I'm still running it - and I don't know if its bothering me or I love it. :P



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Re: Re: Bucklespring: Fun, stupid packages..
By: paulie420 to Bob Roberts on Wed Jan 20 2021 07:08 pm

I've seen some cool mechanical keyboard setups; I haven't paid the price of admission, tho, and am pretty stoked about this software solution. LOL. I'm still running it - and I don't know if its bothering me or I love it. :P

I bought a Mechnical "Das Keyboard Ultimate" a few years ago. This is the VERY clicky mechnical keyboard which has blank keycaps... no letters or symbols. I brought it to work and used it there, hoping it would improve my touch typing skills.

At first my co-workers were annoyed because it was so loud. Then they were impressed that I could type without having anything on the keys. The only problem was the shift-key symbols on the number row. Without anything on the keys it was very hard to figure out which key was & or ^ without having to hold shift down and hit a few in order to find the right one. Normally this wasn't a big deal except password fields where there was no echo back. I would have to enter the complicated password via copy paste from a window where I could see it.

Eventually I got rid of the keyboard at work, and replaced it with a wireless Apple keyboard. And my coworkers complained again! They said they missed the clicks of the old keyboard...

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re. BUCKESPRING

Hahaha crazy, I'll have to look it up. I prolly won't use it though
myself as that clickety clack always wound me up when I used to use my dad's computer with one of them keyboards. I couldn't use it without him knowing.

Lol... I'd love a nice mechanical keyboard setup, and like some of the 60% keyboards I've seen recently... but they cost $200. (Or less is cheaper Amazon setups...)

This is free, and would you believe that I STILL have it running? LOL. :P Stupid, but I almost LIKE it.



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I bought a Mechnical "Das Keyboard Ultimate" a few years ago. This is
the VERY clicky mechnical keyboard which has blank keycaps... no letters or symbols. I brought it to work and used it there, hoping it would improve my touch typing skills.

You know... if I had to pick ANY mechanical keyboard of my choice, I literally might go with an IBM-M style one...

It was perfect back then, and IMO perfect today... its big and ugly, but... for typing; perfecto. :P

They make recreated ones now... that are new but type, look and act just like the IBM-M.



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