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I don't get the "XT-F Enter as Numpad Enter" argument... considering it had that bizarre 1x3 numpad plus instead. You can definitely see the XT layout with very few adjustments in the 5251 Beamspring. That seems the more reasonable origin story. That's reasonably a part of the story. Given that the...

Awesome stuff! I've been eyeing up the Elegoo Mars for a while now since it is decently well priced.

''People get awfully emotional about keyboards-it`s a very personal thing,'' said Mark Tiddens, vice president of sales and marketing at Key Tronic Corp.

Even in 1990, this guy knew what's up.

Someone: "How many laptops do you need?"
Me: "Yes."

Like others have said, if these are to be B/S keycaps, given the curved plates B/S keyboards (excluding M1, M2, and M15, of course) have, a sculpted form would be redundant and would not play to the advantages that curved plates with uni-profile keycaps allow. As such, I would only be interested if ...

For the letter variants, I think there's a separate thing going on than the typical "model F/M" thing we're used to. IBM catalogs of the 70s-80s frequently used "Type A/B/C" for base variants of accessory options, and "1/2/3/4" for smaller variants - see https://www.ardent-tool.com/ibm5550/option_1...

Awesome stuff!

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30 Jul 2020, 17:31

They really need to bring back the white-on-black printed caps. With a UV cured epoxy coating those legends will stay on there forever. Anyone up for a group buy! Probably need to order a few hundred sets...

Sounds good.

The closest "old-style" M122s are the ones with the Model F-style dual-setting feet and a largely metal DIN plug (aka, look exactly like a F122 from the top), but be warned that they, of course, look very close to the slightly later "old-style" M122 that had Model M-style feet that could only be acc...

"805-34, Opal Tower, Business Bay, PO Box 392437, Dubai, United Arab Emirates". According to a very quick Google search, "Medlar InfoTech" also shares that exact same address and are also in the exact same business segment. Talk about tough competition - you apparently have a competing business in y...

Hi,

As per the title, I'm in the market for one or more of those three types of keyboards! I'm UK based, but I'm definitely willing to consider offers from overseas.

Cheers

Edit: To clarify, M5-2 also includes the Unicomp On-The-Ball or Classic Trackball keyboards too.

Regarding the pingy, didn't IBM have a Model M that had "greased" springs or something like that to make them more quiet? IIRC, they were called "Quiet Touch" or something like that. And, no, I'm not thinking of the rubber dome models :D. "Soft Touch". "Quiet Touch" was/is the rubber dome version.

Unfortunately, they are in fact different. The Model M uses membrane sheets (hence the term "membrane buckling springs") that connect to its controller using triomates. The capacitive PCB of a Model F is directly attached to its controller (by soldering and/or they are one and the same, IIRC). If yo...

I would be interested!

I've already given my two cents about this on the original r/ModelM post, but again, I really enjoyed reading this! I think most of their responses were reasonable given they are not really an enthusiast-focused company, however, I think they should pay attention to the pointing sticks, still. I hop...

Sample of most of IBM and co's keyboard with pointing devices (missing "TrackPoint I" and M5-1).

the logic inside the function keyboard. Seems so. In fact, I have an IBM-branded version of one of these from 1991 that I bought from Japan a few months ago, and there's a lot of circuit in these for what they are, indeed. 2020-04-29 SNKB-0199132.jpg I haven't gotten it to speak serial yet either, ...

Red pill or blue pill? My Lexmark (with its new red keycaps) and Unicomp M13 together. Also got a Unicomp Model M4-1 from 1999.

'Insert witty USSRism here' https://www.ebay.com/i/164261616930?_trksid=p11010.c100415.m3733&_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20150526101403%26meid%3D4fa5c966aa574202b0a11dcd36e7c927%26pid%3D100415%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D4%26mehot%3Dnone%26b%3D1%26sd%3D114279589210%26itm%3D164...

Pingmaster up for bidding.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/402310029647?ul_noapp=true

Not from me, but might be worth a look: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-IBM-Mo ... fresh=true

PM'd.

My second Wheelwriter keyboard! About a month ago, I managed to snag an entire Wheelwriter 3500 for just £1, however, the rest of the typewriter is not in working order despite all looking as immaculate as this keyboard assembly. Unusually, this assembly is dated 2001, so I've asked Unicomp if they ...

Got an Ambra Model M! Unfortunately, it's not an AMB100x with the blue-grey case and bottom-left aligned italic keycaps, but I can't find any information about the AMB2001 so I'll be taking lots of better photos once it's cleaned up. It came with single-piece standard ISO UK keycaps that are not pic...

Sorry, I have no idea how to make that work. The moment you remap SCROLL_LOCK to SELECT_2, for example, you lose the ability for that key to do anything with the lights. IIRC, the lock lights are controlled by commands coming from the computer (which was one of the defining differences between XT an...

"Function keys are defined by remapping one or more keys to pseudo-HID codes FN1 to FN8" - Soarer's documentation Basically, you can't directly say you want NUM_LOCK or SCROLL_LOCK to be a layer key - you have to remap them to FNx (1 to 8) beforehand. So, first add something like: remapblock NUM_LOC...

Suppose n is the maximum amount of keyboards you can have before you have enough keyboards.

n = ∞

Picked up my first SSK recently, it's a Personal Typing System version. I actually have the whole package including the monitor and ps/2 system, got it for an excellent price on Facebook marketplace. Still need to clean that up a bit so didn't take any pictures of it yet. Love the stepped keys on t...

Lovely - especially the selection of snacks!

Happy anniversary!

One thing I will give MX Blacks is that they're possibly my favourite sounding vanilla MX switch. Despite personally only really liking loud clicky switches, I'd rather live with these than MX Blues if I was somehow forced into the option between then for instance. Still rather linear Alps or Topre ...