How to make your own Selectric Typeballs

Re:How to make your own Selectric Typeballs by 1MachineElf on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @03:31PM (#36409281)

Nice. Theoretically, I could switch the letter placement in order to make the Selectric have the Dvorak layout. Would be a cool ornament for my keyboard display case.

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Re:How to make your own Selectric Typeballs by Eisenstein on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @05:10PM (#36410668)

Sorry, I don't get it. DVORAK is a keyboard layout. What does that have to do with a typeball?

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Re:How to make your own Selectric Typeballs by jsimzeroone on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @05:43PM (#36411094)

The idea would be that you would replace the "A" on the ball with the character that is in the QWERTY's A position the Dvorak keyboard, etc.

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Re:How to make your own Selectric Typeballs by 1MachineElf on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @06:29PM (#36411594)

Exactly! A was an ironic choice for an example, however, because it's the one character in QWERTY that's got identical placement on Dvorak.

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Re:How to make your own Selectric Typeballs by kadoban on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @12:25AM (#36414376)

Nit: 'm' matches as well. I think it's those two only.

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Re:How to make your own Selectric Typeballs by gmueckl on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @05:44PM (#36411108)

Keys are mapped to specific locations on the typeball. When you rearrange the letters on the typeball you remap the mapping between keys and the actual letters that get printed. So you get a different effective keyboard layout.

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