Soon after I purchased my Keychron K6, I purchased a Matias Tactile Pro 4. This is a keyboard with an interesting lineage. It attempts to recreate the feel of the Apple Extended Keyboard (and Extended Keyboard II) by leveraging the same key switches. Well, kind of. The Extended Keyboard, and Apple’s other 1980’s keyboards, used …
My Keychron K6
I bought a Keychron K6 from eBay recently and have been using it for a few weeks. I deliberately purchased one with clicky blue switches to test out the loudest option. I like this keyboard from a design perspective. It has a small form factor, about the size of an Apple Magic Keyboard. It doesn’t …
My New Keyboard(s)
After I read Shift Happens I had a hankering for keyboards. I pulled my 1988-era Apple Desktop Bus keyboard out of my museum, plugged it into my ADB-USB Wombat adapter, and began enjoying the experience of retro mechanical keyboarding. As I continued on in the book, I became interested in modern mechanical keyboards and all …
My New Typewriter
I couldn’t read 600 pages about the history of typewriters without wanting to buy at least one. I already own a manual model from the 1960’s, but I wanted a typewriter that bridged the era of typing and computing. I wanted a word processor, one from the 80s or 90s with a daisy wheel, correction …
Farewell to The Crown
After six seasons, The Crown, Netflix’s period drama about the Royal Family, has ended. I joined The Crown right before its second season aired and have been hooked ever since. I grew up during the Charles and Diana years so I was familiar with them but I wasn’t familiar with the Queen or the rest …
A Story of Keyboards
In October I came across an article on ArsTechnica about a kickstarter for a 1,200 page, two volume book chronicling the history of keyboards. While I had never previously been interested in the history of this device I use every day, I’m still a retro computing enthusiast and was naturally intrigued. After reviewing the campaign …
A Rubber Band and a Floppy Drive
I bought an electronic typewriter recently; I'll tell you about it later. What's important about this typewriter is that it includes a floppy disk drive to store and retrieve documents. I was disappointed to discover that the drive didn't work - it couldn't read or format a disk. I took the typewriter apart because I …
My New RAID
Tell me if you’ve heard this story before: I’ve done some casual research on a new product I want to get at some point in time, a Black Friday sale pops up, and boom I buy it at a discount. Well here’s one more. Remember my posts about my multi-tier backup strategy, starting with my …
My New Dock
I’ve had a Belkin Thunderbolt 3 Express dock on my desk for 5 years or so. I got it with my work Mac, a 2018 MacBook Pro, to enjoy the single-cable docking experience. It’s worked great with my personal Macs as well, providing power, a 60 Hz refresh rate on my 4K display, and enough …
My New Monitor
bought a 27” iMac in 2010. This was pre-Thunderbolt, and at that time, the 27” model had something called Target Display Mode which allowed it to be used as a monitor for another computer. This made it easy to work from home and was a primary enabler for my 2014 gaming PC purchase. It worked …
Relatively Ambitious 