deskthority

Were the Selectric Ⅲ's cylindrically-sculpted keycaps mechanically compatible with the earlier Selectric Ⅰ and Selectric Ⅱ's key-stems? Put another way, I'm asking if keycaps from a Selectric Ⅲ can be used on a Beamspring keyboard?

Skimming through a table of USB keyboard usage codes, I see codes for numpad A through F, keys for "binary", "octal", "decimal", and "hex" which implies the existence of keyboards with such keys on their numpads. Do such keyboards physically exist, and if so, what layouts do they use for their ...

Is there any possibility of a workaround for this issue?

many keyboards actually send the [\|] code for the key between ['"] and [Return], because it's semantically the equivalent key, and manufacturers don't want to have different firmware for different regions.

Then what would be the proper PS/2 scancodes for these two keys to send in a board of ...

I dual-boot my system between Windows and Linux.

I mean the key between '" and Enter on an ISO keyboard (it appears to be the ~# key on the UK 'board. I'm trying to figure out whether a keyboard that combines all the "key-splits" of ANSI, ISO, JIS, and even Brazil's ABNT keyboard standard (which bisects the plus-key on a Windows computer's numpad ...

I've heard that the red key in this ANSI layout sends the same scancode as the blue key in this ISO layout and was wondering if anyone here could confirm or refute that?