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"I found one at the recycling centre" should be the slogan for this channel lol

@devjock

7 жыл бұрын

Similar to Diresta saying "found on the streets of New York" :D

Came for the keyboards stayed for the golden voice. Jesus man your voice is amazing !

@Chyrosran22

7 жыл бұрын

:D

@questionmarkquestionmarkques

5 жыл бұрын

@@Chyrosran22 you honestly deserve more subs

@RaymondHng

4 жыл бұрын

There was a homeless person panhandling in the streets of Columbus, Ohio, USA when a newspaper reporter discovered him and noticed his "golden voice". He became a viral hit. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y3aL1ZKQkrCznso.html

Your family is gonna have a gold mine of a collection come the next 50 years.

Just ordered a Matias Quiet Click, so keyboards on the brain, and I've been jonesing for a review, man, thanks. My friend had a Selectric II, and I got a daisy-wheel knock off with the two-line deluxe display. We made fanzines. It was possibly not as notable as the Selectric because it was about 1/4 as loud. The Selectric sounded like a .50 cal machine gun.

I love this channel! This and all the other really detailed retro Keyboard reviews are excellent, although I wouldn't admit or even mention it in mixed company!

love you’re channel. I just find it.. You know something I just already got one IBM Wheelwriter 6 and is in amazing and cool machine cause I can feel the click and sound of the keyboard . I remember in the 1986 0r 87 when I saw this typewriter for me it was super cool. and no matter what this is when the computers started individually or in the companies. I love this typewriter specially IBM Wheelwriters.. I got it in Ebay and if you want or future is much shipper then amazon.. trust me.. Congrats for the channel .

I learned to type on one of the daisy ball daisy wheel ones in High School. IIRC we might have had one of these as well. On the other side of the room were a row of Mac Classic's. Yup I'm feeling old now!.

I've just spotted one of these in a local junk shop for about £3 NO I'M NOT TELLING YOU WHERE. This is the slightly older model without the T-nav cursor keys. I hope it's broken; I'm not sure I could forgive myself for ruining an IBM typewriter just for the keyboard unit.

@hjalfi

5 жыл бұрын

I bought it. It's in complete working order, sadly.

Cool video, especially the keycaps are gorgeous. Does the spacebar also fit the model m? If so I am going to hunt one of these down to replace the yellowed one on mine.

@Chyrosran22

7 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure. Finding generic Model M keycaps really isn't very hard, though.

Found one of these at the recycing centre as "scenery" today, and I loved the key feel, but the keypress (and the machine!) were a little too heavy for me.

I never paid close attention to your hands during your typing demonstrations and I just now noticed you use your left hand for everything to the left of U, J and N rather than everything to the left of Y, H and N. Any reason for it? Then again I'm a touchtyping mutant too, I hit B with my right index finger.

@Chyrosran22

7 жыл бұрын

I just never bothered to learn to touch type properly. I can type without looking at the keyboard, though. Also, in these videos, I'm kinda cramped, because I have to reach around a huge amount of stuff to reach the other side of the keyboard xD .

Are some typewriters good sources for older mechanical switches? I've seen several at secondhand shops near me for cheap and some of them have felt like they used mechanical switches though I'm not sure what kind.

@Chyrosran22

5 жыл бұрын

SOME did, yes. Many used fairly cheap systems that often sucked balls. But there are a few interesting ones.

nice, I have a wheelwriter 3 that I hooked up to a teensy with qmk. yeah it's almost like a 60% buckling spring...i replaced the keys on the side with some green caps from unicomp and I'm making a wooden bezel. ..turns out to be bigger than a full size though so completely kills the 60% concept

I'm just wondering, do you happen to know what sort of keycaps are used on the black Model M13? I managed to get one of these (the Maxi Switch-manufactured version - it feels just like the beige 1990 Model M and 1987 Model M SSK I normally use, but the keyboard has a louder plastic clack while I type on it, kinda makes me think of the 2009 Unicomp keyboard you reviewed) and I'm not sure if these are the same dye-sublimated PBT caps, especially with the right shift on my keyboard having been worn down to the point where Shift is completely missing from the key and the part of the arrow is gone as well. I would think it's pad printing, but I really don't know.

@Chyrosran22

7 жыл бұрын

The M13 doesn't use dye-sublimed caps; dye-sublimation can only make legends that are DARKER than the keycap material. I don't have an M13, but I imagine it uses either pad printing or infilled legends (common on WoB keycaps). Considering how even the lettering looks on all M13 pictures I can find, I'm going to guess pad printing.

@Ace9921

7 жыл бұрын

That would be my guess too considering the right Shift key's legends are pretty badly worn out on my M13. Now, there are some beige variants of the M13, and I would think those could possibly use dye-sublimated caps. From what you're saying, the caps on the black M13s are definitely not dye-sublimated, but I would expect the beige ones to be.

You can wire the matrix up to a model f xwhatsit to get those pc compatible and reprogrammable. I still moved the caps from mine to my f107 though.... Nevertheless it's a kick ass board.

@rich1051414

6 жыл бұрын

I assumed this would be the case. Why would IBM reinvent the wheel and not use a standard they already established? That would not be IBM like at all.

Are you going to start collecting type writers now? lol

It seems like typewriter modules have a lot of rattle to their sound. I guess that's to be expected, though it makes me think that the Smith Corona module would sound a lot better if it was mounted to something.

That keyboard is as old as me, down to the day.

I got a free wheel writer series 10 type ii from my university's counselor office :D It has the crispiest buckling spring keys I've ever used

@Chyrosran22

7 жыл бұрын

These aren't xD . It's been used to fuck. I had to redo the typing demo quite a few times because the switches had become very inconsistent.

@combinefr

7 жыл бұрын

Wow.. didn't know you can work a model m into that condition. I also thought the switches are capacitive?

@Chyrosran22

7 жыл бұрын

No, the Model M is a membrane keyboard. You might have it confused with the Model F.

I think the ball prints faster than the daisy. I remember seeing ball printers in the early 1980s and they were pretty fast. Geometrically the ball seems faster but if we consider the inertia of the whole system perhaps the daisy ends up being faster. Interestingly, fewer wheel type IBM machines have survived while I heard that if you're lucky you can even find Selectrics on dumpsters and they could be put back in working condition.

Curious, I have never seen anyone else use their right index finger to press the space bar. I use my right thumb and I wonder what finger other people use on the space bar?

@Chyrosran22

7 жыл бұрын

If I had a pound for every time someone mentioned the index finger thing, I could buy any keyboard I wanted :p .

Omg the typing sounds like WW2

I have 2 type 6781 machines, one was damaged so i ripped out the keyboard, now to figure out how the hell i'm going to make it work. Any ideas?

@Ucceah

5 жыл бұрын

you can use an arduino uno or simlilar board. there are a few libraries of keyboard firmware available, that you can freely configure to fit your layout. the connectors of the membranes fit into normal 2,54mm flatflex connectors.

Not related to the typewriter but can the extended apple keyboards be used on windows

@Chyrosran22

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, you just need a converter for them.

@ttk-stephenfox1507

7 жыл бұрын

Chyrosran22 thank you

@chelastgamer55

6 жыл бұрын

If you're familiar with Teensy microcontrollers and C-compiling you could build one ourself with an off-the-shelf s-video cable an a little bit of soldering

Ah, yes, the wheelwriter keycaps. My wheelwriter 6 series ii (slightly older) has light blue sub legends on some of the keys, although most of them are light green. I think one of the key caps even has a blue main legend and a green sub legend.

yes

Have you considered doing a review on the razer snake keyboard? I heard it was military grade.

you should try to apply for making audio books and stuff

I feel like the Selectric is coming up xD

Hey can you show up wearing fedora hat and formal suit next time. When I close my eyes and listen to that voice this image of a gent comes out.

I turned one into a board

Shame the rest was broken/discarded ... the tilt mechanism on these wheelwriteres is concepted like a tank.

I can't believe I just watched a disembodied voice reviewing a disembodied keyboard...and enjoyed it

there's a wheelwriter 15 series 2 currently at my local thrift shop for $25. decided against getting it because it was so boring looking

VWestlife has a video on the US layout version of this board, typewriter intact and working if you're interested. I think his character set was Courier. It sounds quite a bit different with the typewriter part attached. kzread.info/dash/bejne/io1mr9Wqk8vIlag.html

@armanelgtron4533

7 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about mentioning the same thing, but it looks like someone already did the job, so now I won't have to -be marked spam for including links to other channels in my comments- link to his video.

5:55 It says... uhhhh.... uhhhhhhh................ You pressed Y 4 times...

@tri1777

7 жыл бұрын

There's 4 Ys in his typing sentence?

@Architector_4

7 жыл бұрын

yes .-.

@Chyrosran22

7 жыл бұрын

There's 4 y's in what I wrote the sentence is, I don't really see the problem xD .

@Architector_4

7 жыл бұрын

It's just the only piece of information I've got from trying to decipher what you wrote .-.

@Chyrosran22

7 жыл бұрын

It says in the description what I wrote! xD

OMG