During the Symbolics timeframe, Orange and Brown were less in favor. Mauve and gray were the hip colors. I was the training manager at Symbolics and we decorated our new training centers with mauve and gray. Digital Equipment used to be a hub of Orange and Brown, but they also moved away from that. PDP-11s and 10s moved to trendier colors.

Best keyboard for browsing porn given that it has a rub one out button

You know you've hit keyboard gold when it's so valued people talk about it as though the workstation was shipped along _with the keyboard._ (3:07)

Wonder what happens when you press both HELP and RUB OUT ;)

I'm so happy to hear that there will be more keyboard reviews after this year, this is easily one of my favorite channels on KZfaq. Keep up the good work!

my dude converted oz as fl oz. 1 sec. It's a 70g switch

3:38 What happened to the “2” and “3” keys? xD

I was looking up Symbolics stuff and found this video. I'm reminded of a keyboard I used that was from the early 1970s. It was for a TeleMation video character generator, a bit like a Chyron. Its keyboard was a tall affair that had to be sunk into a tabletop. The switches were long cylinders with magnets on the ends of plungers attached to the keycap. They traveled past a set of magnetic reed switches in quadrature. I was messing with this in the mid 1980s. All of the reed switches had become magnetized, and the thing would repeat keys all over the place. My 16 year-old self had delusions of grandeur of hacking a Commodore keyboard into the matrix, before I knew what a keyboard matrix was. Oh well.

Well I'm glad you decided to continue on with the videos. I've gotten into keyboards lately but this channel has opened me up to all these vintage keyboards and their variety of crazy switch mechanisms. It makes me want to try them all!

It's called Space Cadet after the blue and grey Lego Space sets of the late 1970's.

I'm so glad you're going to keep making these! I look forward to the release of each new video with great enthusiasm-they're honestly a highlight of my week every time.

The space-cadet keyboard was designed by John L. Kulp. I have this confirmed by Tom Knight, and various other sources.

By the way, note the “repeat” key. Many (most? all?) keyboards didn’t have autorepeat in those days, so you had to hold this down together with whatever other key to make it repeat. I remember thinking, when I first came across autorepeat, that I could press a repeat key faster than waiting for the autorepeat to kick in.

An excellent finale for the year - really cool video! I'm glad to hear you decided to keep going - your content is a joy.

Thank you for the amazing reviews, Thomas. I'm really looking forward to what you have in store in the future.

Got into keyboards and started watching your videos this year. Didn't even occur to me that you may stop doing them someday, but I'd like to say thank you and wish you a happy holiday; I hope you stick around for awhile.

So glad you're going to keep making videos. I don't know what I'd do without your keyboard reviews!

I just pushed the “rub out” button, and I finished and started to watching this

Glad to hear you'll be making more videos! Getting caught up on all of the ones I had missed was fun. This channel has been an excellent source of information.

Your reviews are so great. I'm overjoyed that you'll be continuing to make videos in the new year.

Really glad to hear you'll be continuing with the videos! I bought a Model M (and got a couple keyboards from my local university) all because I randomly stumbled upon your videos one day! I absolutely love your style, voice and content! Keep up the awesome work.

wish someone is bringing these back just like they did with Model M(Unicomp). I know that Wooting is bringing Hall-Effect keyboards to the market, but these Honeywell keyboards are exotically beautiful in a different way.

I have to say, contrary to the 'hilarious' posts of others, this keyboard deeply affects me, and we are all due a debt of gratitude to Lisp, to functional programming languages, to the makers of this keyboard, and to Emacs.

I will never get tired of your videos. Your voice alone is great! I also think you may make the most in depth technical videos I've seen that also have a bit of levity. Many technical videos, while well produced, don't add in a bit of humor to make the videos more interesting and captivating. So, carry on with your videos. Your fans love ya.

Please don't stop, nearly every video that you have uploaded I learned something new from you.

Hell, I just dicovered your channel this year! You have a treasure trove of great stuff, but I hope you keep doing this. Also, I want that space cadet. Holy cats, I've wanted one of those for a decade or more.

I happen to be putting together a "space cadet" key cap set. Fun video to watch. And BTW, you have a good voice I enjoy listening to.

I’m so glad you didn’t stop making videos back in 2017!

Happy Christmas and enjoy a well deserved break. Keep up the great videos in 2018.

always enjoy all your videos. introduced to so many interesting boards that are super rare .

YES EMACS A bit of my favourite OS's history in a keyboard video makes me happier than it should

Your videos are amazing! I found this channel a few months ago and I have got to say, I was really impressed! Your editing and content is great, you've got the voice of an angel, and your videos are always informative and entertaining. Keep up the great work!

Just found your channel and im already in love. This channel should have way more subscribers. Keep it up.

It's a mystery why youtube recommended this video to me because I don't think I've ever expressed any interest in keyboards, but I was bored so I clicked on it anyway. And then I heard your voice and now I'm very interested in keyboards, could listen to you talk about keyboards all day long, can't wait to learn more about more keyboards really

4:49 Emacs still uses the terms “meta” and “super” for generic modifier keys. These days “meta” maps to the alt key, and “super” to the Windows/Linux key. Not sure what happened to “hyper” ...

The quality of this is off the charts. Nice video, mate!

I've just found this channel and I use these videos to fall asleep to. Your voice is like audio melatonin. Please keep doing what you do.

Thank you for your videos! Keep doing them. I am learning a lot from them.

I will never stop loving your videos the are all so great! *typed on my planck keyboard*

Ooh, oh my. What a lovely sounding keyboard. Such ASMR, many tingles.

I love this channel and space cadet is just perfect for the end of the year.

I absolutely love your videos, you're my favorite youtube channel. I always look forward to your next video, and I'm really glad you're going to continue. Thanks for all the amazing content, I'll be looking forward to whatever you decide to show us next!

Yeah mannnn keep making videos u r amazing, extremely interesting and ur sense of humour goes beyond everything! Happy holidays!!

I'm also very glad to hear that you will continue to make videos :) I'm not really a keyboard enthusiast, but, damn, I love these videos. Happy holidays!

Amazing as always see you next year!

Fucking fascinating. p.s. glad to see you'll be continuing the content, I look forward to new videos greatly.

I like the sly way you smuggled in a "cokebottle" reference. I'm guessing only old-timers will remember "control-meta-cokebottle"

7:35 Even then it’s hard to see why the key existed. The term originated back in the days of punched paper tape: if you made a mistake punching a character, you could “rub it out” by going back and punching out all the holes in that column. The character code of all 1s was the “rub out” character, which was conventionally ignored by tape input programs, and hence could be used to cover up mispunches in this way. You see the vestige of this in ASCII, where character code 127 (seven 1s) is DEL (aka RUBOUT) -- the only control code which is not in the 0-31 range.

Great channel, dude, keep it up!

I've been waiting for this video so long, christmas came a little bit early this year

holy just listened to your voice on very good headphones instead of laptop speakers. it tickles my ears in a good way

Please keep going. Youre the only great keyboard channel!

It's great to get info about about this. It's not been long since I first heard of them.

THIS CHANNEL...... SO HAPPY! I have been making my way down to a 60% from a 105%. I am at a 70% now and have been trying to understand the history of all the different layouts and such.

Thanks for the great review as always!

Thank you, Chyrosran for the content. Have a merry holiday. Also, note the HJKL keys. That's why VIM is evil in the way it is too.

Thanks Thomas for the videos i hope you keep going i love your videos. Have a happy holidays :)

Keep the channel going

Just discovered you and this seems great. Thank you!

I'm new here, and you have a really relaxed way of speaking and a tone of professionalism. With that being said, I was delightfully surprised at 5:58 (:

I envy you so much ;) I got a newer NMB Symbolics keyboard, but this is definitely the holy grail!

this is awesome :D hall effect switches are just amazing

I've been watching your videos for a while and they made me get a buckling spring keyboard for myself. Previously i've used a slider with dome Fujitsu SK2500-2D and a rubber dome Keytronic KT-1000. Now i'm happily typing with a Unicomp M122 and the difference in typing feel is astonishing. I'll never ever go back to rubber domes. Even friends with MX Blue switch boards tell me they'd rather type on my badass model M. Oh, bigger really IS better!.

Love this, this should be standard color scheme, heck id do my whole living room with those colors.

The fact that the longer unstabilized keys bind on off-center presses and that the switches get really scratchy from any kind of dirt or dust really sours my opinion of this board... but one area it definitely lives up to the hype is in the typing sound. Holy shit, it sounds like perfection.

I'm not even interested in keyboards and he made me subscribe to his channel, omg you are such a great narrator and the investigation you do on the background of every keyboard is documentary like material

love the spacebar sound

Such beautiful keycaps

Fantastic video of a fantastic keyboard.

Keep making vids! Keyboards are so cool!

Just discovered this channel not even 10 minutes ago and I have to say, I really enjoy your content and sense of humour. +1 Subscriber for ya, awesome sauce!

The only step up would be the complete operator's panel from a 1950s IBM mainframe. And then maybe the DSKY module from the lunar lander. :-)

Greek "Front" modifier; Holy shit this has to be an in-joke. Fantastic review dude. Boasting some really expensive boards. Nice! Happy holidays, and see ya next year! Cheers!

Such an inspirational piece of art

your voice is amazing, I almost falt assleep

Dude, that was great.

Hah, wow. Those top legends would actually be pretty handy. Thanks for the videos! :)

me from the future typing on a wooting 2 lekker edition using the same contactless method gotta love the gateron hall effect switches

Amazing keyboard. great info.

Nice, this will be good for those people who is looking for a keyboard that they can use in their office.

This channel is the holly grail

I wish I could get a set of keycaps like this holy cow they are gorgeous

i wont EVER get tired of that voice n you could be talking about sand and i would watch.

The keyboard we emacs users need !

This is incredibly cool.

@Chyrosran22 Do you know if any clones of this exist? This would be super useful for editing in LaTeX if one could map the Front/Green keys to latex commands such as \alpha and so on. Magnificent videos by the way!

I sometimes forget how backwards the Customary system is. It took me a good 30 seconds to figure out what the hell you meant by "oze" and another 30 seconds to figure which type of ounce you were talking about.

I am looking to recreate the tactile feel of the keyboard that came with the Symbolics 3600 series. Which if the Cherry MX keys would best approximate it? The red, blue, or brown? -- Thanks!

Arrow keys in the shape of little hands is pretty cute! 😊

⊥ is obviously not an upside down T. ⊤ is a tee, still not a T. :)

Thank you for this video.

My god, i just discovered this channel. This guy is one level ahead of RocketNinjaJump lol. Subcribed ~~

we need a new version of this

Why don't they make such quality anymore? I mean those keycaps are bloody gorgeous. From a time when things had to look good as well as be useful and durable.

well, the company was called Symbolics because the main paradigm for Lisp is Symbolic Programming. Symbolic Expressions are in fact the data structures loaded in memory, not the parenthetical syntax, these expressions formed with data structures are supposed to be symbolic structures, and the goal of Symbolic Programming is to be able to attribute any meaning you want to these symbolic structures while running as we humans do with the symbols we have in our mind. McCarthy based the Architecture of Lisp on a model of the mind by psychologists in that time.

Thank you so much for your videos.

thank fuck you are continuing this channel, good luck mijn kerel

those blue grey caps are so sweet ：D

soo if you hold down the hyper modifier and press the spacebar, what happens?

What are these key caps made of? abs double shot? why are they weigh so much ? They are so unique and beautiful !!