deskthority

@matt3o

thanks man, good job! I'm glad to hear there is a way to recover the lost threads.

the rumors about the death of this project have been greatly exaggerated... just letting you guys know, this project is alive and well and I'm still making controller boards for anyone interested.

give up a hand for matt3o for recovering the lost threads! Yay!

it goes without saying that the migration happens only if we can recover everything talking about recovery - how are the chances the older Marketplace threads can be recovered anytime soon? Honestly, I don't quite understand why this happened the way it did. There are some really old threads, s.a. ...

thanks for your efforts, I do appreciate it. The best solution would be to restore the original thread. If you can do that then please don't bother with a workaround. If not it doesn't matter since all the posts by members and users are gone anyway and that's what really made it useful. Well, a wiki...

what happened to my thread? did you delete it? https://deskthority.net/other-f61/ibm-model-m-bluetooth-usb-hybrid-controller-conversion-kits-t17388.html?hilit=bluetooth%20controller Where do I turn to inquire about technical issue on DT? okay that's what happened. On the previous version we had a s...

what happened to my thread? did you delete it? other-f61/ibm-model-m-bluetooth-usb-hyb ... controller

Where do I turn to inquire about technical issue on DT?

Hey matt3o, I appreciate your and everybody else's efforts to maintain and develop DT but I'm totally dissatisfied with the new layout, this place starts looking more and more like Geekhack - and I hate Geekhack, it's excruciating, I can't find anything on there by looking at the thread list. I thin...

Excelso wrote: ↑I would be interested in a Model M 122 kit but I'm unaware of how much would that cost.

the controller board is 75€ with BT+USB and 67€ without BT components, the daughterboard is 10€ and the jumper cables are 5€.

Except arakula I haven't heard back from any of the guys who voted for a M122 replacement controller. What's wrong fellas? Also, I see there's 7 votes for an M2 replacement controller - but only guy has left a message so that I can add him to the list of people interested. Please, if you're interest...

I almost forgot about it, so here's my letter of recommendation: blaise170 was so kind as to proxy space bars for me and it all went great. Blaise is a good dude. I was worried at first that the space bars had become scratched because he had just shipped them without any cushioning in the original p...

This would be very tempting to do actually, particularly if they have the full length plastic rivets - could trim them, drill them and melt some threaded inserts into the posts then some nice chrome plated truss head bolts from the baseplate. haha, that's the spirit! you're out of your nut... if yo...

one thing that didn't cross my mind when we were discussing that problem earlier: why not get a replacement frame from Unicomp and salvage the retention clips for the stabilizer bars from your old frame and then just glue them onto the new one? you could also make your own out of leftover plastic or...

TL;DR I had used an active PS/2-USB converter beforehand. But time and again, the keyboard would stop working or start generating special characters instead of the regular alphanumerics and I had to unplug the cable and plug it in again to 'reset' the converter. ... And now I have a properly workin...

you could also dump the original controller altogether and get a USB replacement controller instead, jfyi

Hey guys, I'm the fella behind the Blusb BT-USB-Hybrid controller project. The current design is based on an Atmel ATXMEGA32 MCU and, as far as the USB interface is concerned, Atmel's ASF USB stack. Some people over at avrfreaks.net claim that all ASF stuff is trash and that the guys who wrote the c...

TL;DR for highly sought-after items you need to invest time or money to get them, and sometimes you need both. heh, that was totally my point, too. The thread starter has an attitude problem and no sense of humor, apparently. He wants a super rare item - but he doesn't want to spend a lot of time o...

obviously some of you guys aren't used to sarcasm. Look it up in the dictionary. Just cause you sell your stuff at horrendous prices there is nothing bad with asking for a fair deal. yea, right, my prices are horrendous, but $170-$200 for a board some dude probably pulled out of a garbage can is fai...

Cherryisgarbage wrote: ↑Does anybody out there have an IBM SSK that they're willing to sell for less than $200 USD?

haha, that's a good one! why not 'for less than $20'? And don't forget to ask for a free G80-5000 while you're negotiating the final price...get outa here! ;p

I think all this young man needs is a little encouragement and he will be able to do it himself...

My experience is that people seem reluctant to pay a fair fee for the service, yet are unwilling to do it themselves. Therefore, few people want to offer to take on a project like that for hire, while it might seem like an enjoyable distraction when doing it for themselves. Yeppers, that's pretty m...

would it be possible to use the macro feature to essentially bind a key combination or something like that to a specific scan code? Yes. All the macro function does is sending a key report stored in the EEPROM. A macro can be recorded on the fly, or, alternatively, you can edit a pre-defined macro ...

hey guys, just letting you know I've finished designing and prototyping a daughterboard to add support for 4th generation Lexmark/Unicomp boards. With the addition of a few transistors the controller can be configured to automatically switch from USB to BT mode and vice versa whenever a USB cable is...

Hi..., do you accept Bitcoin? heh, why, you tryin to launder drug money or sumptin? Nah, sorry, no Bitcoin, I don't even know what that is. ;) By the by, actually, good ol' bank transfer used to be the payment method of choice in Germany until recently (and still is for safe transactions between Ge...

I've edited the original post to include a picture of a complete M122 conversion kit (although a few things are not in the picture)

So, any news on this? YES! Absolutely! The controller boards are done, the daughterboards are done and I'm ready for taking actual orders and shipping now. I'll post a picture of a complete kit in a bit. The only reason I didn't get back to any of you guys earlier is that I had problems with a new ...

I've finished making another run of controller boards and can still take about 10 additional orders at this point, so let me know if you're interested. I thought some people might care about this sort of thing so I've uploaded a short clip of a laser session. After coating the boards with Mechanic b...

ok, I'm making another batch... unfortunately the last run sold out so fast I didn't get around to making any M122 conversion kits. The prototype I made is sold as well. This time around I'll make 16 controller boards and 9 daughterboards to connect the M122 matrix. An M122 conversion kit will consi...

Did you try emailing unicomp to see if they can reduce shipping charges for small items? They did it for me before thanks for the suggestion, I'll definitely look into that. Do you still remember what you ordered and what they charged you for it? Can you quote some figures, just for future reference?

hm, almost two weeks an only one response so far, darn. Did I state my enquiry unintelligbly or is it simply the fact that nobody wants to proxy for me? I will 'reward' anyone willing to proxy Unicomp parts from the US, I'm not necessarily looking for a 'free ride' fellas. Perhaps some of you guys a...

Hey guys, I've had the urge to buy replacement parts from Unicomp for a long time, but $30 for shipping + (German) 19% V.A.T. is just ridiculous. It can't be that expensive to ship a few small plastic parts from the US to Germany. I'd appreciate if someone would be willing to offer their help. I'm i...