deskthority

Hi everybody

I've been lurking here for some time and finally decided to delurk to ask some questions about this old keyboard I found a while ago. It's been laying around my room and I'd love to start using it as typing on it feels pretty good.
album with some more pictures:
http://imgur.com/HefBb0T,EWHIILO,T5bRdt ... ,MYQXbEq#4

So far I've determined it's from a televideo 955 (http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/in ... eVideo_955 ).

So my questions would be:
Would it be possible to get this to work on my modern pc? I've read a bit about using a teensy board with soarer's converter to get old keyboards to work, would this work with this one as well?
How could I best go about cleaning it? I haven't tried taking of any of the keycaps, as I don't want to ruin it, and I don't have a keycap puller.
Finally I'd love to know what kind of keyboard it is (switches wise etc). I couldn't find much about it myself, so I'm hoping anyone here knows a bit about it.

Thanks for reading Looking forward to your answers!
(I hope I posted this in the right forum, if not my apologies)

What's the cable look like? The connector can tell a lot.

Soarer's Converter works with regular protocols like XT, AT, PS/2 and IBM terminal keyboards. He also has a separate Wyse terminal version. But many old terminals out there aren't converted yet.

It looks like on of those cables that used to be between the horn and machine of a phone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack
especially this one looks really similar http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... nector.jpg

here are the pictures of the connector: and the whole cable:

Hmm. Connectors like that aren't uncommon on keyboards. They tend to be terminals, like my IBM here:



IBM used a jack that's identical to Ethernet's RJ45. It has 8 little indents (which can carry pins) along the top. But yours looks like 6.



I don't know what you've got there, alas.

Don't leave us hanging — what switches does it use?

Muirium wrote: ↑ But yours looks like 6.

Then is should be the RJ12. It is like RJ11(telephone cable 4-pin) but with 6pin. They both fit in a RJ45 socket.

EDIT: Maybe this can be of relevance?:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cct ... 35575.html

EDIT2: Atari used same connector, maybe shared same pinout aswell?:
http://old.pinouts.ru/Inputs/atari_mega ... nout.shtml

Don't mind letting this thing invade your space!

Your choices for using it are to either wire up a new controller or bug Soarer / Haasu for a converter.