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General Category => LisaList2 => Topic started by: andrew on February 11, 2024, 03:00:45 pm

Title: Keyboard card dimensions
Post by: andrew on February 11, 2024, 03:00:45 pm
My keyboard is missing its pull-out reference cards, so I plan to print some more. I just need a dimension to scale the images properly. Can someone here who has a set of cards get me the exact width at the longest point?

Title: Re: Keyboard card dimensions
Post by: ried on February 12, 2024, 11:40:02 am
Here you go.

Inches

(https://i.imgur.com/I8wYt4o.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/obA2fMd.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/aR3C4KS.jpeg)

Centimeters

(https://i.imgur.com/x8XoE5Z.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/2QrldZK.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/e9rpD2n.jpeg)
Title: Re: Keyboard card dimensions
Post by: andrew on February 15, 2024, 06:34:53 pm
Thanks for this! Once I print them out I'll post the results here.
Title: Re: Keyboard card dimensions
Post by: andrew on March 15, 2024, 02:52:53 pm
I made these PDFs using vectors from Rocky Bergen's excellent Lisa papercraft design (https://rockybergen.com/whatsnew/2019/10/17/apple-lisa-1-papercraft-design). His vintage computer papercraft models are adorable, and of course he did that wonderful work on the opening titles to Before Macintosh (https://vimeo.com/ondemand/beforemacintosh). Anyway, one of these PDFs is in color, and the other is in monochrome for use with black and white printers. If printed out to 100% scale on a US-letter sized sheet of paper and cut out, they should fit correctly into a Lisa keyboard.

Cutting these out perfectly is pretty tedious. Anyone know if there's a service where I can get these professionally printed and cut-out?
Title: Re: Keyboard card dimensions
Post by: D.Finni on March 18, 2024, 10:08:35 am
Cutting these out perfectly is pretty tedious. Anyone know if there's a service where I can get these professionally printed and cut-out?
Find a printer that can do die-cutting. Making the die will cost you something, likely more than the cost of printing these cards.