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So I am putting some serious thought at replacing my Orbweaver with one of the IBM 49/50 key keyboards. The problem is I don't like the feel of M. I would rather keep the Orbweaver. So with this, is the 4704 banking series the only ones with the pcb style F internals? There are 4 of the layout on eB...

I just want to say, if corrosion resistance is the primary goal, I would reccomend a dry film lube as well.

I would bet that Corsair's keyboards are topped with aluminium. There are different alloys of aluminium, some harder than others. 6061, also known as T6 is a common type, often described as "aircraft grade". Just wanted to clear up a bit of misinformation here. The 6061 is the actual grade of the a...

Just wanted to chime in and let you know there is a pad under every barrel +2 extras under the ends of the space bar.

Was there a buckling spring keyboard with a single unit number pad 0/INS key? Or is the closest the F XT with the stepped version?

By disassembling one of my Model F keyboards' inner assemblies and gently/slightly increasing the bend of the top metal plate only, I was able to improve (increase) the crispness of the keyboard significantly. I did not replace the foam. Putting everything back together required more clamping thoug...

Just thought I would post a couple videos I made. They are on my IBM F XT. One was before a floss mod and the other is after. Both are shot on the same night, same table, same camera, same tripod. I just didn't feel like editing video (haven't done that yet) so I shot the first one, did the mod, an...

Just thought I would post a couple videos I made. They are on my IBM F XT. One was before a floss mod and the other is after. Both are shot on the same night, same table, same camera, same tripod. I just didn't feel like editing video (haven't done that yet) so I shot the first one, did the mod, and...

Grats on the win. To answer your question yes just remove the barrel inserts and insert a spring/flipper. As far as modding goes idk if you will need to source springs or not. Also as other people have said soarers converter should work. Another thing you may need is replacement foam if yours is ba...

Well this project might turn out to be happening sooner than I though. Just placed a bid on an F AT.

Edit: won that auction for $155 plus $16ish shipping

As a kind of "proof", here you can see my F AT with some remappings done with Soarer's converter: DSCN3478 Klein.jpg Looks good. That is very close to the layout I was thinking of with the arrow keys below the num pad. How does that layout work for you? For the physical swap does it just consist of...

You don’t need any built-in converter for an AT keyboard in general, just a passive AT-to-PS/2 adapter (and possibly one of those PS/2-to-USB adapters if your computer doesn’t support PS/2). The numpad can definitely be a 4x5 matrix, but I’m not exactly sure how the extra keys get reported to the c...

I am posting this question here as this forum seems to be more geared toward buckling springs with GH being more toward Cherry and Alps projects. Not that nobody over there knows IBM but seems be be more knowledge sharing on it here. My plan is to obtain an IBM AT for ANSI conversion. I am not to wo...

Soarer's been offline since summer, so don't hold your breath on an answer. It is an interesting project though, like so much of his stuff. Yeah I have noticed his absence on GH as well. Its a shame with the quality of his work. I hope everything is fine on his end. I did notice that matt30 and set...

Sorry for the necro bump but I am attempting to use this to reverse engineer an odd ball F and I am getting output from the teensy with hid_listen but am not getting anything in scla. I am running this on a laptop with XP SP3 as my windows 8 rig lacked the requisite dll file.

I was thinking that one could also try to trigger the 8-channel controller chip 8273565 using a different based firmware (Hasu's TMK?). What is your idea after the reverse engineering ? Also, does anyone knows where did Soarer find the information on the 5119699 and the 8273565 It is a pity that he...

Coming back to the subject of this thread :-) .... I am very interested in this topic. This is one of the layouts that I guess that will match my taste. I am seriously considering getting one of these boards. This is my understanding that I have posted here also: Keyboards with the with a 4-channel...

Unfortunately, this variant uses the 8-channel controller chip 8273565 (the square silver chip), so Soarer's controller can't be used with this (see his post here: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=50437.msg1148867#msg1148867 ). I don't think there's a converter yet that can convert the signals ...

Build log / help request on getting this up and running on USB has been started over at GH.

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=66801.0

Hak Foo. Yeah I was planning on doing it with a PCI slot connector, I was just stating I would be willing to put another hole in the case if need be. I have a Silverstone FT-02 so I have a couple options for that if I wanted to go that route. I will be starting a build log over at GH. For those that...

Weird, looks like it's in two parts? https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7544/15857774620_00c5c23a8e_k_d.jpg The square silver topped chip (in the picture you linked of the underside) is IBM's typical analog heart in all its capsense controllers. Beamspring and F controllers all have those. Usually, tho...

Muirium wrote: ↑Right. An onboard controller, like Kishsavers, XTs and so many Model Fs; instead of the curious Bigfoot which has no brain at all…

Correct

IMG_7723 by christopher.hurlbut, on Flickr

You can always use tags to inline images from anywhere, like this: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7484/16044342532_11b28e942c_o_d.jpg What distinguishes this, then, from the Bigfoot? From what DFJ has told me from the pictures (I am not an electronics guy) this has its only controller where the BigF...

Much thanks to hwood34 for selling me this exceedingly hard to document piece. Anyway enough of the formalities. While this may LOOK like a 5291 "Bigfoot", the internals are totally different along with different legends. The best I can tell it cam from the IBM 5324 system. There seems to be very fe...

[*]with pins, allow 750 mil key spacing on standard 100 mil breadboards At last, a real reason for this kind of board's existence. It would work on perf/stripboards too, also then I suppose - something that lots of us have wished that switches were attachable to. That would make a thick keyboard, b...

I saw the project on GH and talked about it with mkawa. It is a very clever solution and not expensive at all, but I'm not sure if I want to build a whole keyboard with this system. hand wired is good enough and lately I started making my PCBs at home (which is very inexpensive). I don't mean to lo...

[…] You can open switches with no desoldering and no plate with the goofy switch holes […] I thought that in the absence of a full PCB there must be a plate to hold the switches. :roll: Correct but you can still do a stem swap with the square switch holes on a stock style plate and still not have t...

You don't have to solder to the side of a pin
You can open switches with no desoldering and no plate with the goofy switch holes
Cheaper than a one off full PCB
Support for backlighting
Support for PCB mount stabs

Fuck you too. Fuck you back. Get a room. Anyway, I made some switch breakouts a while ago, for MX and ALPS switches, with a few goals in mind: easy to wire together in grids with pins, allow 750 mil key spacing on standard 100 mil breadboards allow various combinations of internal/external diodes o...

Fuck you back.