433% mechanical keyboard

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/17/433-mechanical-keyboard.html

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4 33, eh? Is it really maximalism if it pays homage to the anthem of minimalism?

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As someone who suffers from sound sensitivity disorder (misophonia) just the sight of this thing makes my skin crawl. The clickity click-click, click-clickity clickity … ugh!

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24 function keys? What am I, a peasant?

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Linotype machines had amazing keyboards, and were themselves amazing.

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To everything there is a keyswitch; and a modifier to every purpose under the heaven.

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We’re gonna need more monkeys.

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Uh, is there a space key or enter key on this keyboard? It’s a little hard to see from the picture, but if the enter key is there it is not obviously marked.

I wonder if a whole bunch of those unmarked grey keys are mapped to space.

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We’re going to need a bigger cat.

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Google Japan says “hold my beer.”

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Oh Linotype machines are possibly one of the greatest inventions of print and media. They’ve gotta be in the Top 10 list of greatest inventions.

(edit) I watch and re-watch all of the Linotype video on YouTube over and over again. Can’t get enough of them.

Johannes Gutenberg: behold, I have invented metal based movable type!
Bob Linotype: hold my beer, Johannes.

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In a thousand years, no matter what technological innovations, we will still have QWERTY.

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This one (from your link) would actually save me a lot of time:

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I want all of that on a numpad with a \LaTeX-lock key.

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When I was about 12, I got to see a Linotype in operation and it made a HUGE impression. It’s like a steam locomotive, with a huge number of exposed, moving parts. Interestingly (to me anyway) like a typewriter, the keyboard layout is a side effect of its mechanics rather than an attempt to improve the user interface. Typewriter keyboards were designed so that letters that were frequently used in succession were not close to each other so that the typebars wouldn’t jam. Linotypes were designed so that the most frequently used letters were on the left so that those matrices would be the first ones back in the magazine so that you were less likely to run out of them.

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