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Re: 433% Keyboard

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Post by bjoli »

zadkey wrote: post #6

Is there a place a someone could go to buy something like this?

I have an old IBM F122. A 122-key keyboard is pretty much peak keyboard when it comes to easily purchased commercial offerings. The smaller less sturdy sibling of the F122, the M122 (yes, M as in model M) can still be purchased relatively easy, but then you lose about a kilo of weight, nicer switches and N-key rollover. The prices for model F keyboards are bonkers today though.

Your option when it comes to a lot of keys (as the one posted here) is either to build it yourself or try to find some very specific offerings, maybe aimed at video production.

Re: 433% Keyboard

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Post by thkoli »

c0nsumer wrote: post #3

This is pretty interesting, but it'd be great if the author explained their reason for building such a large keyboard... even if it's just "for reasons".

this was also posted on r/MechanicalKeyboards and the reason behind it was something like “I made a 128 keys keyboard, someone else made a bigger keyboard so I had to retaliate”

Re: 433% Keyboard

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Post by a_e_k »

Where do you rest your hands when you pause from typing? Or do you have to go back and forth over the nearer keys all the time?

Re: 433% Keyboard

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Post by Vivtek »

babo wrote: post #7
zadkey wrote: post #6

Is there a place a someone could go to buy something like this?

You mean there is a need for this?

Maybe not for 450 keys (!), but I would dearly love to be able to type all the diacritical marks and at least select Unicode ranges (Cyrillic and Greek).

It's been a really low-priority desire (I won't dignify it with "need") and so I haven't even really worked out a layout or even carefully defined what I'd like, but yeah, the Really Big Keyboard would fill at least a small need.

Re: 433% Keyboard

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Post by slim »

babo wrote: post #7
zadkey wrote: post #6

Is there a place a someone could go to buy something like this?

You mean there is a need for this?

As a Tunisian (north africa) I write mixed texts containing both arabic and latin scripts. I have an azerty/arabic keyboard, arabic letters are on the same keys as latin letters so I constantly need to switch layout when I'm typing. A ~200ish keys keyboard would be Ideal for me. And i suppose it's the same for all non-latin keyboards

Re: 433% Keyboard

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Post by Vivtek »

Vivtek wrote: post #14
babo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean there is a need for this?

Maybe not for 450 keys (!), but I would dearly love to be able to type all the diacritical marks and at least select Unicode ranges (Cyrillic and Greek). It's been a really low-priority desire (I won't dignify it with "need") and so I haven't even really worked out a layout or even carefully defined what I'd like, but yeah, the Really Big Keyboard would fill at least a small need.

In A.I. War (book by Daniel Keys Moran), Trent uses a "custom 240-point Unicode board" to code in SuperLISP, which originally put the idea in my head. I asked Moran about this. He made it up whole cloth. No such keyboard exists. Of course, we still have ample time to invent one before the time of that story.

Re: 433% Keyboard

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Post by Vivtek »

slim wrote: post #15
babo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean there is a need for this?

As a Tunisian (north africa) I write mixed texts containing both arabic and latin scripts. I have an azerty/arabic keyboard, arabic letters are on the same keys as latin letters so I constantly need to switch layout when I'm typing. A ~200ish keys keyboard would be Ideal for me. And i suppose it's the same for all non-latin keyboards

Even Latin, if you use enough languages with enough diacriticals. Or want to code in APL. Or use Greek letters when typing math.

Re: 433% Keyboard

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Post by ardy42 »

Vivtek wrote: post #18
slim wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Tunisian (north africa) I write mixed texts containing both arabic and latin scripts. I have an azerty/arabic keyboard, arabic letters are on the same keys as latin letters so I constantly need to switch layout when I'm typing. A ~200ish keys keyboard would be Ideal for me. And i suppose it's the same for all non-latin keyboards

Even Latin, if you use enough languages with enough diacriticals. Or want to code in APL. Or use Greek letters when typing math.

> Even Latin, if you use enough languages with enough diacriticals. Or want to code in APL. Or use Greek letters when typing math.

I've always wanted something like the space cadet keyboard with a couple of extra modifier keys vs. what's typically available today for typing unusual characters (and the keycaps for making that easy).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Space-ca...

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