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It's got a METH key! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/mechanical_keyboards@programming.dev
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Keyboard from 2010 built by TG3 for a Siemens chemistry analyzer. I cleaned it up, added some weight to the bottom, and converted to USB. Cherry MX Black and PBT Dye-subbed DCS caps. Take a peek at what should be F9 and F10 (and are after conversion), as well as some of the keys above the numpad, which, tangentially, now has 5 keys that do absolutely nothing related to what's written on them.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, TI99/4a bro!

That was also my first computer. Did you have the sweet voice synthesizer that sounded kinda like the AI from Wargames?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nope, could not afford that. I didn't even have a casette player to save what I wrote on that machine, at least at the beginning.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Aww, that's too bad. It was a total gimmick, but it was actually used by a lot of the (very subpar) games. Later in the TI99/4a life they were selling it super cheap or bundling it with games, which is how we got it. You could even get it to saw words directly from TI BASIC.

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