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Anyone got numbers on the followin' boards? IBM 4704 Teller Keyboard (Zinc Case and Model F Barrels) IBM 5250 Deutsch Beamspring (White Whale Version) IBM Plate Spring PS/2 P70 Computer+ Keyboard Converted to USB C (Original and USB C ports) IBM 5576 001/2 (Unsure about variant, Plate spring board -...

[…] Obviously I have not been active much on this site In fact you first registered with DT about half an hour before posting. but I am curious as to what the community would think of an individual such as myself purchasing the site and continuing to run it. […] I think it would be a good idea for ...

I'm reviving this thread. I have about 5 Model Ms, which I would like to give a new lease on life, by giving them an USB interface. (I'll maybe sell some extras - I don't need all 5 of them.) Of course, QMK comes to mind. Starting there , I have found a few candidates, which, unfortunately, use chip...

I bought a "new" desk (beautiful hardwood, 300 lbs/136 kg, took 3 guys to move it, me included... and was $10 at Goodwill!) specifically because it doesn't have a keyboard tray, and my old desk did. Keyboard trays are awful. But I can envision some kind of metal arm that swings in and out that could...

Boas, decidi criar um novo layout optimizado para programadores, é um mix de ISO-PT e teclado ANSI US. Possui apenas 10 teclas diferentes do teclado US, ao contrário das 17 do teclado atual. Quais são as vantagens e desvantagens? O que acharam deste layout? ;) As mudanças que você propõe na sua dis...

So, if I understand correctly , the barrel´s in the top part of the case do not have to modified to get this to work ? The wheelwriter key placement is the same as on the PCjr ? The only cut on the WW5's barrel plate was on the left hand side (on my picture the 10 barrels with no keys installed). I...

I just saw teensy for under 10€ so I think I wait a little until they arrive before I destroy the pro micro…

Here are the bigfoots. I will paste pictures after the restorations.

That’s great news. I am not normally a custom board guy… but if you are going to offer a full-size ANSI Keymacs kit with a full-size ANSI layout, I got some blue Alps stashed just for such an occasion!

Wait, does it mean that there is a full-size ANSI 104 keyset available for purchase? And/or a full-size or TKL keyboard with ANSI layout? Almost, … it is just two small steps away. I need to figure out the final pricing and set up a ‘product web’ again. Besides that, everything is ready and tested....

Wait, does it mean that there is a full-size ANSI 104 keyset available for purchase? And/or a full-size or TKL keyboard with ANSI layout?

I guess it is time to post some updates. 8-) I have substantially extended the profile set. It now includes, among other things, everything that can be found on ANSI/ISO full keyboards. The convex profile includes shorter spacebars and convex modifiers as I have promised. Since the set of supported ...

I have two sets of (very simple) MX keycaps for ISO FR, a white one and a black one, double-shot, translucent, for TKL, absolutely unused. I am aware that they are not in the highest league quality- and design-wise, but considering the difficulty to get ISO-sets affordably, I still want to offer the...

I'd somehow managed to gloss over the comment about the monthly costs of an adequate server equipped with "64GB" of RAM and a "2023 ... processor". For sure DT doesn't need anything that heavy specs-wise; good grief. Talk about overkill. It has been many moons since I've shopped around for one so co...

Thanks for your support thefarside. My interest check for this is because the current ownership is expected to end quite soon according to their own statements and outside of someone outright buying it or gathering funds, the next owners are not obliged to keep the site running in its current form,...

Thanks for your support thefarside. My interest check for this is because the current ownership is expected to end quite soon according to their own statements and outside of someone outright buying it or gathering funds, the next owners are not obliged to keep the site running in its current form, ...

Well, I think it's fair to say that manufacturers aren't exactly waiting for people to come and pitch them on new layouts / key profiles and the like, in the hope to licence their ideas. Many of them try their own variations and ideas; indeed, there's more of that going on now than there was 10 or 2...

Having purchased a 1391401 from clickeykeyboards.com last year, I found that enjoy using the keyboard so much that I have decided to try my hand at a full refurb and screw mod. I found the 1391401 pictured here on eBay for $10, listed as untested, missing keycaps, and no cable. Well, it works just f...

Looks like an example of the twinax terminals I used in my youth, back in the 1980s; I'd assumed 5251 but I'll defer to sharktastica, not least as I was never certain. Even at that age and in that era (1980s, when keyboards were either really obviously terrible such as the ZX81 and Spectrum, or they...

The one I'm typing on right now has .03-.05mm lateral or vertical movement. However, if I push on a top corner, I can rock it 5 or 10 degrees forward and back.

DT’s resident spammer is busy today. I’ve whacked about 10 posts of theirs. All instant payload: no laying low for later edits this time. They must have lost their ineffective patience. ;) Together with jsheradin, the 3 of us will have deleted half a dozen spam topics, a dozen of spam posters and t...

DT’s resident spammer is busy today. I’ve whacked about 10 posts of theirs. All instant payload: no laying low for later edits this time. They must have lost their ineffective patience.

Scratch that last post; I made a mistake. Here's every post with size=1: 514815 514065 468495 366580 43595 491213 490978 472891 455778 132137 36263 513549 513558 514150 459213 157132 157228 275472 275648 95723 482854 491225 500362 502868 and also, 2-10 493001 24147 59944 496735 498756 24147 45368 59...

Perhaps your clone could help me with a query. I'd like a list of all DT posts with the text {size=1} in them (but with square brackets instead of curly braces), to track down the remaining edit-spam still festering in the forum. The search function here insists on searching for the word "size" ins...

Thank you Polecat! As far as I know the spacebar has the more common Cherry type stabilizer. The BAE key stabilzer appears to be a Costar type. It has the Costar cross-type hook to attach under the keycaps. Tai-Hao however used the smaller Alps type bottom hook to snap in to the switch plate instea...

Thank you for the information on the stabilizers. Early Focus (and Northgate) keyboards had a BAE key with a horizontal Alps-style (rectangular inserts) stabilizer wire, and a guide pin on the upper part of the key. Later Focus (but not Northgate) keyboards had two stabilizer wires on the BAE--one v...

That is a great find and a beautiful keyboard. The weird curved case threw me the first time I saw one in person. I had to look at it a long time to convince myself it was actually built that way on purpose. The stabilizer on the spacebar looks like an early Focus one, but the stabilizer and guide ...

Hi! I am new here and registered to post and share my appreciation of an old Alps keyboard I bought a few months ago. The keyboard is a Tai-Hao Fame 5539-5. It is yellowed but quite clean for its age. It has a steel bottom plate and steel switch plate and relatively heavy for a compact keyboard. The...

Yes, a battery powered USB hub ought to do it. Bonus points for installing it inside the Model M’s generous chassis. I did something similar for a while 10 years ago with my XT and iPad over Lightning. Had to use a dongle to make it happen back then, so it’s easier now they’ve finally embraced USB, ...

Yeah, and my mainframe work needs all 24 F-keys...and the delete, end, PgUp, and PgDn keys are ones I use all the time. As a fellow mainframer I agree. I also need the 10 f-keys on the side. Given the massive amount of "keyboard" space my monitors create. and the hassle of layers, I simply can't ge...

Would it be feasible to connect a gaming keyboard to a controller (Teensy? Raspberry?) and mangle the keyboards collection of HID devices into a generic USB Keyboard device?? Background: I really want a QMK (or similar) ready 113+ key custom keyboard with backlighting, but I don't have the skills/pa...