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You can buy those boards brand new here: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/UB40B5A :–)

Obviously an Apricot computer/board, but does anyone know which model and if it's actually worth getting?

elecplus wrote: ↑I have the caps you want but they are not listed yet. I will be back home next week.

Sweet, I'll swing by next week then and place an order.

Thanks for the tip, I'll have a look Do you have any references on gray and pebble? I didn't know there was a difference.

I have a couple of Model M's that are missing some keycaps, and since I can't find replacements either at Unicomp or Clickykeyboards, I thought I'd ask here. So the keycaps I'm looking for are as follows: - Ctrl (gray) - Numpad Del (pearl) If I can't find any I guess I just have to replace them with...

Nice work. How long did you leave it in the peroxide?

Holy crap Anakey :shock: download.jpg Here's a praise for you as well! I came so far that I managed to copy my layout to KLE, print out the layout and cross-check which keys mapped to what pins. I've discovered that I haven't managed to read all two pins on each key, so I'll do that either this even...

Lesson #1 Controllers and converters are NOT the same thing. Every keyboard has a controller. It’s the chip that drives the matrix. It scans rows against columns to detect which switches are pressed, and it passes this along to the computer in whatever protocol it supports: USB, AT, etc. When we bu...

Found a guy selling a Cherry G80-5000 for roughly $580. Is that in all fairness really a realistic price to ask? depends very much on condition and layout for a moderately used iso one i'd say no Pretty much what I thought. Apparently it's well used and has some scratches, and from what I can tell ...

Hi folks, Sorry in advance for a lot of questions that show signs of me not really knowing what I'm doing. In short, feel free to explain things to me like I'm 5 years old, I'm not a mechanical engineer and have a very basic understanding of how electronics work, but I'm determined to get this to wo...

Found a guy selling a Cherry G80-5000 for roughly $580. Is that in all fairness really a realistic price to ask?

What you should do probably is start a new thread, since it is looking like you won't be using Soarer's converter. (unless someone adds that board to the converter) For your immediate question, you should notate which solder point on the switch goes to what pin. That way you can figure out what the...

Alright, here I am again with yet another bunch of overly complex questions since I really don't know what I'm doing.. So I took my sweet time, pulled out the multimeter, and tried tracing each of the two contact points (solder points) of each switch to see what pin they were connected to. I mapped ...

Hey Snacks, Looks like I'm confusing both myself and you guys. I've mainly used stuff from the converter , but I came across this post on github , and I see now that I've mixed things up since this was based on the controller software. Sorry about that. The method I used for mapping the keys was bas...

I ended up voting for The Patriot after much thought, even though I would've wished it had the same cable as The Soldier.

Man.. wish I had your skills when it comes to making converters..

Alright, let's see if this makes some sense. The first thing I did was try to make a "model" of my keyboard as is, in a spreadsheet. (1. set) Then I tried to map what HID_listen registered when I hit all of the keys, and added in the different codes. (2nd set) After that I added another one where I ...

I think \, /, +, - and d,u all represent the state of the key (up or down). So you have basically two values to figure out (scan code and key code?). E.g with: /37 -0E u0E You have "up" for key 0E (37). Maybe stuff like this: https://techdocs.altium.com/display/FPGA/PS2+Keyboard+Scan+Codes Hmmm, in...

Here's some pictures of the PCB etc.:
https://imgur.com/a/FDDKT2X

Looks like the model isn't included in the list, as far as I can tell. I guess this means .. I have to start from scratch?

@snufflecat: Have you read the documentation? Do you have the "codes.html" file? Open the codes file, and you will see a table listing the Name of the keys, HID codes, and description of the key. There is also a folder with sample sc files that can serve as a starting point for your configuration. ...

Hi there :) I'm working on converting my WYSE-board, but from what I've understood I have to make my own config file? In that case, is there any "boilerplate" that I can use, or do I have to start from scratch? And if so, where do I begin..? I've tried looking into the documentation, but well, it's ...

First! Just because I can, heh.

Edit: You mention that the board is worth looking into, but after a quick scan on ebay I can only find a single board priced at $500, which is, imho, insane.

Alright, so I've managed to flash and load the correct firmware, and most of the keys are working great. (Yay!) However, some buttons register in hid_listen, but nothing shows up when typing. Some keys don't even seem to register anything in hid_listen. I suppose this means I have to edit the sc-fil...

Thanks so much guys, I'll be trying to see if I can get it to work tomorrow. :) It takes me forever to figure out those things on my own, so your inputs are very, very valuable. I did try to drag and drop a .sc-file onto the .bat-file, but CMD just told me that "there is no such command" or somethin...

Hi there, Just thought I'd ask a few basic questions here in hopes that us newcomers can learn a thing or two. I'm trying to program my Teensy 2.0 in order to convert an IBM 6517 typewriter keyboard. According to what I could find online, it shouldn't be much different from converting a Wheelwriter ...

Interesting. And honestly I'm a bit shocked that you went to the extreme of cutting up several of your keycaps! Oh well, I guess we can add it to the list of sacrifices made for science. Edit: I finally caved and bought my own US cleaner today. The results are so far sub-par, but this could be becau...

Thanks, dodged a bullet there.

Is this anything worth spending money on?

If you ever need a buyer and the price is right.. I'm right here, waiting!

Thanks for posting! I'd be curious to see whether or not the older keycaps still got the same results if you hadn't used the denture cleaning solution. Were the other colored caps also just dyed, or was the plastic colored all the way through?