Keyboard Builders' Digest / Keyboard Spotting
SafeType V801
A nice review of the emblematic SafeType by cornbreadninja.A nice review of the one and only SafeType – tested by cornbreadninja.
Published August 9, 2021
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You can call this keyboard an affront to humanity, an evolutionary dead end, but the SafeType is undoubtedly one of a kind and has crazy features like vertical halves, mirrors, mirrored legends on the F-row and numeric keys, unique homing "topography", extra large arrow keys, etc.
Kristina Panos aka cornbreadninja walks you trough these crazy things in her review:
Published on Mon 9th Aug 2021. Featured in KBD #38 (source).
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