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i found a keyboard at my local electronics reuse shop, it was a black plastic TKL board, with MX blacks, and the keycaps had front print. the keycaps were deformed and caved in at the back, and it was covered in some irritating sticky substance that mildly burned my hands. had a silver manufacture ...

snuci wrote: ↑

04 Oct 2019, 19:02

Does he have floppy drives for the computer? I may be interested.

Sadly, no, and FYI it's located in Norway, shipping tends to be obnoxiously high when shipping things abroad.
But with that said I could get in touch with him for you if you're interested.

I had identical board but with Nokia brand name on top, keyboards even for robber dome keyboard feels weird. Good thing about this keyboard is that it have connection cable that is compatible with IBM keybords with due to SDL connector. It is sometimes cheaper to buy old ICL's/Nokia rubber dome key...

The oak membrane is a very nice switch. Dont look at the name, I have two boards with this type switch and they're all very smooth linear. Alright, note taken. :) The seller is asking roughly $130 for the monitor and machine, and isn't sure if it's working or not. While I'd really love to own the m...

snuci wrote: ↑

03 Oct 2019, 00:13

The Cromemco C-10 keyboard is Oak Full-Travel Membrane.

Thank you! Don't think I'll be getting it then.

Also, anyone have experience with the Cromemco C-10? Or at least can make a guesstimate on the keyboard?

ollir wrote: ↑

01 Oct 2019, 19:59

A friend of mine had a board like the top two ICLs and it felt mushy, linear and unlikable.
(he liked it though)

Dang it. Let's at least hope one's good..

Anyone recognize the ICL board(s) here? Worth getting? https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=94063.0 suggests rubberdome, but it's maybe not authoritative Thanks. I bought two and noticed that the second one with the red markings on the keycaps had a peculiar placed escape-key, but as far as I know ...

Anyone recognize the ICL board(s) here? Worth getting?

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 ...