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Sounds like you would enjoy Boba U4Ts as well, very tactile, super smooth stock and just generally regarded as some of the best modern tactile switches, about 1.3-1.5 mm actuation though. Being long pole also makes it harder to bottom out despite the sharp tactile event. Honestly its hard to find a ...

1 year and 1 day later, the project was on hold due to the cooked PCB without an easy fix or replacement. That was until this dropped: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=28241 So over night the project went from dead to orders being placed for a pack of PCBs and a xwhatsit pandrew controlle...

On todays east bloc exhibit we have the MERA ELZAB 7940, manufactured in 1978, in Zabrze, south west Poland: 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg 5.jpg 6.jpg The keycaps are 1970s thick double shot, im assuming ABS, however the manufacturing process leaves a lot to be desired, with some keycaps being perfectly s...

Fair, my only point of reference is these: HTB1x4OeX1sAV1JjSZFsq6ydZXXaT.jpg Which are ultra thin rubber ones, keyfeel is more or less identical to stock, but with the desired dampened sound, I enjoyed them, they went into both the Novatouch and Realforce sa0100, overall both boards feel more or les...

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10 Aug 2023, 09:55

Damping rings are the key. Once you’ve sorted that, they’re a decent enough, low-key showcase for MX mount caps. Much prefer mine to MX keyboards for that purpose.

Those dampening rings look so thick though, despite being foam, doesnt it massively mess up the keyfeel?

Thats hilariously overpriced though, and missing parts.

For reference I got mine for 130 eur earlier this year, also on ebay, ansi layout.
Admittedly without aftermarket keycaps, but these arent even that pricy.

It's effectively the same as the bandaid mod for mx equivalents, with the stab wire no longer hitting the PCB it's just a muffled and deeper sound.

I keep mine around as a secondary board at all times, sometimes as the only one depending on the rotation and feeling at the time. Case is stock, keycaps are some double shot pbt idobao keycaps, not the best but they were only 40 dollars and fits the stock case very nicely. Switches are lubed and si...

Oh my, you hero.

I can finally complete the German AT board project that spent a good portion of its life as a submarine?
And to think I contemplating selling it for parts.

If you are willing to ship across the ocean, do let me know and Ill gladly pick up one of the 4 you have remaining.

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For the rest of them, grave was escape by default, tab was ctrl, ctrl (on the right) was shift, which is technically correct but in this case had to be swapped. Having no native win keys, right alt got sacrificed and became a win key, so it was technically correct, but things are better this way and...

Luckily the majority of the wonky keys are down to the "special" XT protocol as the robotron forum hinted at, so using the TMK keymap editor, the vast majority of the keys have been restored to where they should be through trial and error, with a few exceptions: ESC and Prnt Screen is tied and seemi...

Sooooo, in prep for doing a hid_listen I redid all the soldering, desoldered the original cable and permanently affixed the promicro to the internals and now, as Tod Howard would say, it just works. Its still on TMK, nothing else changed since last time, its a bit confused about some of the keys but...

TMK loaded, identical behaviour, so its not the firmware

Both of the suspect ones are of the electrolytic kind.

To rule out a few more things, I gave the promicro 2x 1k pull up resistors and connected it directly to the PCB instead of via the cable.
No change in behaviour so im thinking capacitor swap next.

That and giving TMK a shot

So opening the board put a quick end to the connector mystery, behold this end cable connector: photo_2023-06-22_11-01-07.jpg Im not sure if I trust the two capacitors either, they arent bloated, but the soldering looks stock, and they both have residue at the bottom: photo_2023-06-22_11-07-04.jpg p...

It has 2 5v pins, which im guessing is gonna be a problem on 1 USB slot. Not really. They are most likely connected inside the keyboard - there are two ground pins, too. Look at the other end of the cable, or simply check resistance between those pins - should be less than 1 ohm. Tested the two pow...

Hi DT, So in my closet lurks the East German Robotron K7673-02 which Ive done nothing which since I got, but always wanted to get some life into. Allegedly these run XT with a slightly modified protocol so some keys might not work but it should be happy with a standard Soarer converter, so I made on...

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Found an interesting looking Wang while browsering one of the local buy and sell sites.
It's a Wang 2336 apparently, can't seem to find much information other than that, quite a good looking Wang though.

Anyone around got any idea what switches it might have?

Unrelated to recalibrating the cap sense, but more about the multi keystroke in general: Ive restored one of these prior, im assuming you are also running the Jahota Xwhatsit converter? In my experience these boards are generally very sensitive, way more so than a XT/AT F, Id assume its something to...

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03 Feb 2023, 13:13

The only IBM Mµ cap ever sent my way went missing in bloody transit.

Great, I have 3 orders being shipped with Royal Mail, being 20 days late at this point, this bodes well for me

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Nice stuff,

Whats the switches in the 3 apple boards, and the condition of them?

Some Tesla switch board https://i.imgur.com/BrJ8GQW.jpg Do you happen to know what year is it from and if it speak a relatively "normal" protocol or is it moonspeak just like the older Consul ones? I do love the inter compatability as the Zbrojovka Brno Consul boards are effectively just rebadged T...

As mentioned prior, I was closing in on a 262.9, the older, XT speaking brother of the AT speaking 262.12, and the last day of the year this arrived:




What a handsome pair they make though:

The Finale The end is here, as the numpad is now actually operational, it ate a pro micro in the process but with the bootloader button installed, ideally this contraption will remain forever shut. photo_2022-12-23_10-31-10.jpg photo_2022-12-20_15-26-05.jpg Keymap2.png And as promised, sound test. ...

I may or may not currently be closing in on a 262.9 :roll: (and a 262.3) I absolutely love these, as you say their build quality is wonderful, but I guess thats what you should expect from a company that in addition to computers and pheripherals made rifles, machine guns, engines and cars, and "only...

And I suppose to contribute to the topic and the current east bloc vibe: photo_2022-12-19_11-20-42 (2).jpg photo_2022-12-19_11-20-42.jpg Zbrojovka Brno Consul 262.12 As far as im aware, the only hall effect board to natively speak AT, made in 1990ish. Decked out in a spare set of cyrillic keycaps, t...

Robotron K7672.04 Robotron K7672.04.jpg Started doing some investigation into these, as im sitting on a K7673.02 myself, at first I was under the impression it spoke a special version of XT, but according to the robotron forum, its essentially normal XT with only a few keys being different, they ev...