First Tipro keyboard! Help please.
- XMIT
- [ XMIT ]
- Location: Austin, TX area
- Main keyboard: XMIT Hall Effect
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac Trackball
- Favorite switch: XMIT 60g Tactile Hall Effect
- DT Pro Member: 0093
Thanks Touch_It for my first Tipro board! It seems fitting for the command deck of a spaceship. The one I got is an authentic Tipro board, Made in Slovenia, with Skidata branding. It only has a PS2 connection and no additional ports on the back. The alpha keys and the keypad are one solid board styled to look like two modules put together. I'll post photos at a more opportune time.
Two things:
1. Is it programmable? How would I program it? Do I need some special software to do it?
2. A number of relegendable key caps are missing: eleven clear tops and a few others (Tab, Ctrl, Left Arrow, 0/Ins). How might I find replacements?
Maybe kbdfr has the answers.
Two things:
1. Is it programmable? How would I program it? Do I need some special software to do it?
2. A number of relegendable key caps are missing: eleven clear tops and a few others (Tab, Ctrl, Left Arrow, 0/Ins). How might I find replacements?
Maybe kbdfr has the answers.
- XMIT
- [ XMIT ]
- Location: Austin, TX area
- Main keyboard: XMIT Hall Effect
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac Trackball
- Favorite switch: XMIT 60g Tactile Hall Effect
- DT Pro Member: 0093
It only has a PS2 cable! There are no additional connections on the back of the keyboard for anything else. Perhaps if I open it?
Pictures!
It works just fine with Soarer's Converter.
Pictures!
It works just fine with Soarer's Converter.
- XMIT
- [ XMIT ]
- Location: Austin, TX area
- Main keyboard: XMIT Hall Effect
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac Trackball
- Favorite switch: XMIT 60g Tactile Hall Effect
- DT Pro Member: 0093
The outer case is not metal. The back plate is metal. The switches are plate mounted. The entire keyboard feels very heavy and solid.
Touch_It found this originally at shopgoodwill.com. Goodwill runs their own non-eBay online auction system. This is presumably to avoid eBay fees.
Touch_It found this originally at shopgoodwill.com. Goodwill runs their own non-eBay online auction system. This is presumably to avoid eBay fees.
- chzel
- Location: Athens, Greece
- Main keyboard: Phantom
- Main mouse: Mionix Avior 7000
- Favorite switch: Beamspring, BS, Vintage Blacks.
- DT Pro Member: 0086
I see, the cable is captive. Most Tipros have a "special" 8-pin connector, which essentially is PS/2 but they have 2 extra pins for serial where the rectangular thingy is on the PS/2 connector.
Nice colour!
Nice colour!
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- Location: UK
- Main keyboard: Filco ZERO green alps, Model F 122 Terminal
- Main mouse: Ducky Secret / Roller Mouse Pro 1
- Favorite switch: MX Mount Topre / Model F Buckling
- DT Pro Member: 0167
i have always wanted one too.
Are the mounts for the wide keys standard ? So i could say put Round 4 on them ?
Are the mounts for the wide keys standard ? So i could say put Round 4 on them ?
- XMIT
- [ XMIT ]
- Location: Austin, TX area
- Main keyboard: XMIT Hall Effect
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac Trackball
- Favorite switch: XMIT 60g Tactile Hall Effect
- DT Pro Member: 0093
Yep. I just pulled Enter and the Space bar. They are regular old Cherry mount stabilizers. Though, this boards uses a little toy 4u Space bar. I'm willing to bet that many of the other keys are odd sizes too. It looks like '/" is 1.25u and \| is 1.5u.andrewjoy wrote: ↑Are the mounts for the wide keys standard ? So i could say put Round 4 on them ?
Oddly enough, even the Space bar is relegendable.
- XMIT
- [ XMIT ]
- Location: Austin, TX area
- Main keyboard: XMIT Hall Effect
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac Trackball
- Favorite switch: XMIT 60g Tactile Hall Effect
- DT Pro Member: 0093
Yep, with four modifiers and lots of extra keys, this would make a very nice Space Cadet keyboard. It feels like mine has modern Cherry MX Black switches. I may swap them out for vintage switches.
- kbdfr
- The Tiproman
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Main keyboard: Tipro MID-QM-128A + two Tipro matrix modules
- Main mouse: Contour Rollermouse Pro
- Favorite switch: Cherry black
- DT Pro Member: 0010
They are in fact two modules, but probably with soldered connectors and a common metal plate instead of the usual removable flat connector cable and separate metal plates, plus it will probably have a built-in controller instead of a swappable one. Have a look here and there.XMIT wrote: ↑[…] The alpha keys and the keypad are one solid board styled to look like two modules put together. […]
Refer to chzel's post above, he is absolutely right.1. Is it programmable? How would I program it? Do I need some special software to do it?
I would say you can bury any hope of finding replacements for the printed tops. It would be a real miracle - I have never seen them in that colour.2. A number of relegendable key caps are missing: eleven clear tops and a few others (Tab, Ctrl, Left Arrow, 0/Ins). How might I find replacements? […]
As for the clear tops, like for the Cherry relegendables I can send you a few spares
And I am quite sure I still have a bag with pre-printed colourfoul tops.
Of course you can replace the caps with any Cherry MX compatible keycaps (like I did on my battleship), but note that the Enter cap is 2u instead of 2.25 and the cap left of it silly 1.25u instead of 1u (my board has been modded by CeeSA, including plate modding [!], to correct that).
- XMIT
- [ XMIT ]
- Location: Austin, TX area
- Main keyboard: XMIT Hall Effect
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac Trackball
- Favorite switch: XMIT 60g Tactile Hall Effect
- DT Pro Member: 0093
Thanks, kbdfr. It is helpful I think to have all this information in one place. Many of these links are several years old at this point.
I will send you a PM regarding spare parts.
I will send you a PM regarding spare parts.