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- 11 Sep 2020, 14:48
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Cherry MX gold or MX black?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 442
Re: Cherry MX gold or MX black?
It probably means "Gold Crosspoint", which is a term applicable to all MX switches. There is no MX Gold switch.
- 27 Aug 2020, 21:56
- Forum: Mice & other input devices
- Topic: Philips ACC2330 foot switch
- Replies: 2
- Views: 790
Re: Philips ACC2330 foot switch
If you do get your hands on one, you could use xev to see what, if any, key codes it sends.
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- 15 Jun 2020, 16:14
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
- Replies: 4479
- Views: 457687
Re: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
Looks like ordinary rubber dome. The gold-coloured lasered lettering looks like early 2000s HP/Compaq stuff to me, although I wouldn't have pictured them doing video editing gear.
- 25 May 2020, 00:15
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
- Replies: 4479
- Views: 457687
- 03 Apr 2020, 18:49
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYSWITCH thread
- Replies: 314
- Views: 39960
Re: IDENTIFY THE KEYSWITCH thread
Micro Switch SD series.
- 29 Mar 2020, 18:59
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Have these keyboards vintage black switches?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 477
Re: Have these keyboards vintage black switches?
Czech-made Cherry boards are relatively recent, so the C will mean 2016. (Plus it's got the recent logo, USB etc.)
- 04 Mar 2020, 11:55
- Forum: Deskthority wiki talk
- Topic: unitech k959
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2326
Re: unitech k959
It looks a lot like the "Katano" switch.
- 01 Feb 2020, 00:57
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Need help programming some Tipro keypads
- Replies: 5
- Views: 977
Re: Need help programming some Tipro keypads
I've been giving this another look. Thanks everyone for all the info in this thread before. I've been keeping an eye out for a larger MID device which might help get these keypads up and running, and this kind of thing looks promising. I'm wondering though, do all larger Tipro units have a controlle...
- 16 Dec 2019, 10:55
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Proto-Topre infomation collection
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2058
Re: Proto-Topre infomation collection
Assuming you're only talking about the Brother design, there's already a page for the capacitive version here.
I submitted that one image on the page. Come to think of it, if that typewriter with the similar caps that you have isn't the capacitive version, that one could be a different version too.
I submitted that one image on the page. Come to think of it, if that typewriter with the similar caps that you have isn't the capacitive version, that one could be a different version too.
- 26 Nov 2019, 23:59
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Need help programming some Tipro keypads
- Replies: 5
- Views: 977
Re: Need help programming some Tipro keypads
Well, I'm not there yet, but I've got some progress. Turns out the reason the keypad wasn't sending anything on XP was because ChangeMe deactivates the connection or something. At startup, it works ok. I tried MIDWIN (only needed disk1 to install so I didn't need to get hold of a blank floppy) and t...
- 25 Nov 2019, 21:13
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Need help programming some Tipro keypads
- Replies: 5
- Views: 977
Need help programming some Tipro keypads
I picked up two Tipro keypads a while ago and just got together all the stuff needed to program them... or so I thought. They're two of the same type - MID-KM032MAA. I made a cable to connect them following this wiki page , and have that plugged into the PS/2 port of a computer running Windows XP 32...
- 22 Nov 2019, 00:16
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Motorola AlphaMate Keyboard. Anyone know what switch it uses?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 837
Re: Motorola AlphaMate Keyboard. Anyone know what switch it uses?
Depending on what the intended purpose of this was, the arrow placement might not have been so much of an issue. In many applications (eg. a command line), the functions of the horizontal and vertical arrows are almost unconnected and they won't generally be being used much at the same time.
- 20 Sep 2019, 11:43
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Unknown ALPS switch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3041
Re: Unknown ALPS switch?
Yeah. Given the "special order" look of this thing then, maybe it was a temporary solution from before or after the availability of the SKFF equivalent., or maybe Canon requested a less clicky double action switch. Edit: Regarding the model code, do note that SKCC is a family that comprises at least...
- 20 Sep 2019, 11:22
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Unknown ALPS switch?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3041
Re: Unknown ALPS switch?
This switch is already documented, actually. It's SKFF Double Action. HaaTa covered a later variant in this thread.
- 13 Sep 2019, 20:33
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Key Communications Keyboard Coating On Traces Coming Off Help
- Replies: 111
- Views: 9208
Re: Key Communications Cherry MX Unsaver type keyboard conversion advice.
That's bizarre. If I'd had to guess, I would've reckoned that was a Key Tronic for sure Oo . Cool keyboard though! :) Key Tronic and DCS legends do have a very similar style, but there's an easy way to tell them apart. Look at the 3. Key Tronic's font gives it a flat top, whereas on DCS it has a ro...
- 09 Sep 2019, 23:28
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
- Replies: 4479
- Views: 457687
Re: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
I'm guessing that's got Futaba switches of some description.
- 25 Aug 2019, 16:09
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
- Replies: 4479
- Views: 457687
- 10 Aug 2019, 12:46
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
- Replies: 4479
- Views: 457687
Re: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
Well it's certainly nothing to do with the one on the wiki. That's about two decades newer than this.
- 24 Jul 2019, 11:55
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYSWITCH thread
- Replies: 314
- Views: 39960
Re: IDENTIFY THE KEYSWITCH thread
This honkin keyboard caught my attention. Does anyone know what switch it uses? It's made by Lear Siegler for the ADM 42 terminal. https://i.imgur.com/JENWkMu.jpg That'll be Stackpole switch grid. Here's another ADM series board on the wiki , and the caps look to be a match for other Stackpole boar...
- 21 Jul 2019, 23:54
- Forum: Want to buy
- Topic: [WTB] IBM Model M SSK
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1017
Re: [WTB] IBM Model M SSK
Have you seen this before?
- 20 Jul 2019, 23:53
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Model F Queries
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1620
Re: Model F Queries
If you're up for a bit of soldering, you can assemble a converter yourself and flash Soarer's converter onto it. As far as I know, the cheapest and most readily available board that can be used is the Pro Micro and clones of it. That should be much cheaper than buying a prebuilt one from the US or w...
- 13 Jul 2019, 22:45
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
- Replies: 4479
- Views: 457687
Re: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
The keycaps are definitely Cherry. Judging by the shape of them (they look low and flat profile), I would be expecting Cherry ML... but the wiki claims that wasn't introduced until a few years after this machine?
- 01 Jul 2019, 12:08
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
- Replies: 4479
- Views: 457687
Re: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
Pretty sure GYUR (as opposed to GYUM, etc.) on Silitek boards means it's a rubber dome board.
Edit: A later board in this thread disproves this.
Edit: A later board in this thread disproves this.
- 31 May 2019, 00:31
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Model M appreciation
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5168
Re: Model M appreciation
All this talk of AT connectors and bootlegs reminds me, the cable of my Model M bugs me. Surely they're not supposed to have a logo that looks like THIS, right? IBerM.jpg That's got to be too far off model for IBM to tolerate. I mean, here's an XT's plug for comparison. IBMXTplug.jpg So what's up wi...
- 19 Apr 2019, 01:13
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Found this absolute unit of a keyboard in a dumpster outside an old abandoned factory. And i need help identifying it!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 910
Re: Found this absolute unit of a keyboard in a dumpster outside an old abandoned factory. And i need help identifying i
Well, for whatever it's worth, the keycaps appear to be the same family that was used on the Amstrad CPC 464. Don't know if that helps narrow anything down though. Pretty sure I've seen them on a few seemingly unrelated boards.
- 17 Apr 2019, 17:52
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Do B3G-S switches fit into standard Cherry plates?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 583
- 08 Apr 2019, 00:48
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Post the ugliest keyboards you've seen!
- Replies: 519
- Views: 56049
Re: Post the ugliest keyboards you've seen!
Pink and white colourway, Japanese legends AND an oversized Hello Kitty artisan? Best GB ever!
- 07 Apr 2019, 23:10
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The 2019 Keyboard Meme Contest
- Replies: 77
- Views: 26721
- 24 Mar 2019, 20:48
- Forum: For sale
- Topic: Apple M0110A & Alps Glidepoint Keypad (ADB version, NIB)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 745
Re: Apple M0110A & Alps Glidepoint Keypad (ADB version, NIB)
OK, that is the Alps version then.
- 24 Mar 2019, 14:16
- Forum: For sale
- Topic: Apple M0110A & Alps Glidepoint Keypad (ADB version, NIB)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 745
Re: Apple M0110A & Alps Glidepoint Keypad (ADB version, NIB)
Just so you're aware, the M0110A was manufactured by three different companies, so you'll want to check which version you've got. The quickest way to check seems to be the country it was manufactured in.