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【IC】SA SAIL (GB Live!)

类型: IC
作者: Fredington
发布时间: 2019-11-06 21:59:13
更新时间: 2020-03-01 08:32:41
原链接: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=103307.0



Introducing SA SAIL
Based on the SAIL ( Stanford AI Lab) keyboard created by Les Earnest, inventor of the Finger protocol. SAIL itself was started by John McCarthy, inventor of the LISP programming language. The SAIL keyboard inspired the Knight keyboard, which in turn inspired the LISP Machine CADR and Space Cadet keyboards. The keyboard features beautiful teal keycaps and a mix of APL and Greek top legends, as opposed to the Space Cadet keyboard where the Greek legends are on the front of the keys. The SAIL keyboard also introduced the META and TOP keys.

A couple of interesting quirks about the keyboard should be noted:
–The digit 0 key is to the left of the 1 key.
–The punctuation legends placement is quite different from modern keyboards (more on that later).
Colors

GB will run from March 1-27 with the following vendors:
NA: NovelKeys
Canada: DeskHero
EU: MyKeyboard
Asia: iLumkb
Oceania: DailyClack
Pricing

Kits








Deskpads
Green Hi-Contrast



Black Monochrome



Renders
RAMA U80-A


Iron165



KBD19X



Atlas



FAQs
Are these 7bit’s or hhkbp2’s legends? No, I drew these myself. See below comparison:
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NE NorDe (or Colevrak) avail? Due to the “wrong” punctuation legend placement in relation to modern keyboards and the fact that a new mold would need to be created for each key if I wanted it to have the “correct” top legend according to the inspiration, I have decided not to provide a NorDe kit. More importantly, I don’t even know what that would look like, since it would definitely require some rearranging of the punctuation legends in a way that would go against how they are laid out in the alphas. Same thing goes for Colevrak. Instead, I’ve provided a basic ISO kit with two options to cover the extra key: /*⊗ or \∞. The ∑s in the Alphas kit should also help in this regard. Since even the base ANSI layout has the “wrong” punctuation legend placement, I think it is not as egregious in this case that ISO layouts have the wrong legends as well.
To-Do
Feedback - Complete
Vendors - Complete
New renders - Complete
Pricing - Complete
Launch GB - March 1-27
Acknowledgements
Hhkbp2/Jiezhou for all the detailed advice about custom fonts and running a GB through SP
Abec13 for the beautiful renders and advice on formatting the IC and the 40s kit
depletedvespene for the advice about the ISO kit and the idea for the novelty keys
Changelog
2/28/20
–Changed NUM LOCK to simply NUM
2/21/20
–Split the Ortho/40s kit into Ortho and 40x Extension (replacing Split B-ars)
–Added a couple blanks to the ISO kit
–Moved the ∑s from the Alphas to the Maths kit
–Kits are LOCKED
–Added new render with numpad (KBD19X)
–Added pricing and exact GB dates
2/7/20
–Deskpad renders added
2/4/20
–After R1 samples, all legends have been reworked to be significantly bolder
–A new Pantone has been chosen, 7717 C, due to possible discontinuation of previous standard
–Moved the Σ keys back into the Alphas where they originally were
–Following recent trends in numpad kit design, R1 keys for standalone numpads have been removed from the Numpad kit
–1800 layout support has been moved from the Modifiers into the Numpad kit
–Two deskpads will be offered, Green Hi-Contrast and Black Monochrome
–Incorporated the new novelties into the updated renders
–All kits and renders have been updated with above changes
–Deskpad renders and pricing to follow in the next couple weeks!
1/6/20
–Added updated/new renders that reflect the new Pantone; a number of legends have been refined to be more reflective of the inspiration
–Added new Maths and Ergo Blanks kits (w/ Boardwalk support); replaced µ with ∇ in the Maths kit as I felt it fit better with the theme
–Moved the ∑s in the Alphas and Numpad into the new Maths kit
12/10/19
–Moved 1800 support from the Numpad to the Modifiers, as pricing for the Numpad was coming in a little high compared to its MOQ
–Added options for R1 and R2 Backspace (BS) and Delete (CLEAR) (and vice versa) to the ortho kit
11/25/19
–Changed 1.75u BS key in 40s kit to BACKSPACE
–Removed \∞ from Ortho kit after mocking up a Preonic for a new render, as I believe exceedingly few people will use this key
–Selected a new Pantone for better color matching to plastics, PQ-7716C
11/18/19
–Replaced LOCK with NUM LOCK in the Numpad kit
–Updated various legends to be more faithful to the inspiration
11/12/19
–Removed extra R1 CALL key from Modifiers
–Added 1800 layout support to Numpad
–Scaled back Ortho/40s kit slightly for costing reasons
11/8/19
–Split the Base kit into Alphas and Modifiers
–Expanded the ISO kit slightly and incorporated the VT key into the Modifiers
–Added ortho/40s kit with fairly robust 40s support
–Added split spacebars kit
–Added ∑ novelties to the Alphas and Numpad kits
–Replaced 2U BS with BACKSPACE; smaller BS keys left unchanged
–Shuffled around the 65% right column keys and incorporated the legends into the TKL nav cluster
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