ISO.. That is weird!

j/k

Nice to see her showing interest.

"Hmm, it's a lot smaller than my old Underwood."

Your great-grandma is only 87?

Man I feel old. My last living grandparent is 99.

Yeah my grandad is the oldest of her 7 children and my dad is the oldest top, and I’m the oldest as well. My grandad 70.

Those fingers touched mechanical typewriters and you just know it, she would’ve loved to have one of these back then

Seems like a cool lady.

She is ! During dinner she talked on how she followed around my great grandpa during WW2 (he was in the FFL) to make sure he wouldn’t do stupid stuff.

Her expression: “Lubed, but not filmed? ..Mm..“

I can’t blame her

You machine is magnificent! Please, Share specs! I can’t help myself when there’s a good iso enter

Is that purple on black?!

Your great grandma looks like she gives great hugs

I feel old because my grandparents are almost the same age as their great grandparents, and I’m actually not that old either.

Augur60 WKL? Classy.

Nope it’s a Polaris WKL. Classy none the less

A lovely keyboard, regardless!

She was talking food with my dad which is pretty much the same thing here in France

It’s a Polaris WKL in purple built with L&F Alpacas and GMK Rouge which is light purple on a very deep purple. Also matching alpaca durock v2

She does !

Thanks !

So you know you have to build her one now right? Jk, LOL! Seriously though pretty awesome she's showing interest in your hobby. My family thinks I'm off my rocker with custom keyboards being one of my fav hobbies.

We’re you able to show her the switches beneath, or was she more interested in the feel of it? :)

My dad is 95. He was 21 years older than my mother but that's still really old lol

My parents are in their early 70s, I’m in my early 30s, no children, all grandparents died before I was 8 years old. Have no idea what my great grandparents were even named

If three generations in a row have their first kid by 25, then someone's a great grandparent by 75. Could be there at 60 if everyone has kids at 20, which is earlier than average, but hardly crazy.

Your great grandma may have been a better and faster typer than any of us ever will be. 87 is not crazy old, and she's in the right age range to have worked as a typist when mechanical typewriters were being replaced with electrical ones.

They had to be super accurate back then, because there was no real backspace ability.

Alpaca is a great switch :0

Show a RGB keyboard to a caveman and he'd probably shit his pants

Same, my grandparents are in their early-mid eighties and they only just became great granparents. My last great grandparent passed at 95 and that was a decade ago.

Well she asked me why the keys were not in alphabetical order, she didn’t know because she never typed on a typing machine before… But she told me tales of some of her friends who could write blindfolded entire pages without faults.

Well it’s the same here but we respect each other hobbies, my dad has his motorised model plane and my mom spends way more than me on her horse so it works out. Also I spend my money not theirs so it helps a lot x)

More like the whole thing, she never typed on a keyboard her life.

> But she told me tales of some of her friends who could write blindfolded entire pages without faults.

Touch typing is a lost art, sadly.

Do any schools even teach that anymore?

Alpacas 4 lyfe

Being a gamer, I picked up touch typing as soon as I got my first PC and it seems like the natural way to type. Discovered the stare-at-the-keyboard way of typing only recently when I saw one of my non-computer-savvy friends type. Glorious 15 WPM

I presumed ur great grandma was a medic during WW2. Now I am having the BF1 vibe already. Thanks!

I can see here she's like saying "When I was ur age..." Bubble. 😅😂😅😂

my touch typing as a “gamer” was characterized by my left hand having best access to the keyboard (being on the keys already) and centered over WASD rather than ESDF. so I typed as much as I could reach with my left hand and used a few fingers from my right hand sparingly.

taught myself how to properly touch type a few years ago though and I very much prefer it. except it took an otholinear keyboard to get the zxc cluster down.

I have the same age difference with my parents, but somehow my great grand mother managed to survive until I was around 11 when she slipped off the toilet and broke her hip.

Man I didn’t realize it then how cool it was to be able to talk to my great grandma

Yeah it’s in most of my keebs

My first custom board was alpacas, I have since lubed them and moved them to a 40% board which freed up enough alpacas to build a second small form factor board with alpacas. I am putting oil kings in a larger board soon, and can't wait to try them out but I really love the light actuation of the alpacas. Might have to spring swap the oil kings, we'll see how she goes

"Weird typing machine" because it's an English ISO? :P

No because she never touched a computer keyboard in her life

Also ISO best enter :p