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The other half is... they're never wide enough — if having the mouse at a differing height from the keyboard works for you, more power to you, but for most people, keyboard and mouse should be side by side... That's a good point - luckily not an issue for me. I discovered that I actually like my tr...

I have just approved production and assembly of the F122 inner assembly, so now the F122 can proceed to completion. Below are the first photos of the approved F122 keyboard! The F122 was a trickier PCB design. Once again a big thanks to forum member wcass (the designer of the PCBs for the capacitiv...

Operating system: Windows 11 Keyboard: IBM 5251 beam spring (1980) Hi! I have an IBM beam spring 5251 in excellent condition and I would like to convert it to USB. For this, I bought a controller from Joe (Model F Labs LLC) on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/324956507598?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-12...

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...

It's an awesome keyboard, I got it last month as well. I managed to get it running under Linux the way I wanted to, but using the software was mandatory. After a lot of fiddling , I could get it to run in a Windows 11 virtual machine. I actually really enjoy the big round buttons, I use them to lock...

This thing has it all. What an absurd keyboard. Thank you to ja3 for being kind enough to pass it along to me. It must be the longest Cherry MX G80 I've ever seen. It's the only Cherry-made MX keyboard that came stock with o-rings to my knowledge. And to top it all off - it has a unique case design ...

Here's a unicorn I picked up last year. Huge thank you to chorb for pointing me in its direction. Right off the bat, despite the fact there is no branding anywhere, I'm confident this was made for Triumph Adler (or Olivetti, as they were jointly owned at the time). I say this due to the colour schem...

Karabiner never stopped complaining about the system extension not being enabled, even though EventViewer said it was activated. And, needless to say, my keyboard(s) never synchronized with each other. Karabiner prime (to give it name) will be the truth: the extension is clearly not active. Annoyin...

It’s much too pretty to toss out… all over again.

Are there any parts available from this keyboard? I am searching exact this keyboard to bring my Siemens PC-D back into operarion where the keyboard was lost during relocation. Hi Gichtl, I'm sorry, IvanStroganov said he'd send me the caps but I haven't heard from him since. It's not quite easy to ...

Here are some photos of the uncoated aluminum beam case prototypes from the new tooling. They are made from a flat piece of aluminum cut and folded/bent into shape. More details are in my 11/26 post above. 2023 12 beam cases (1) - Copy.jpg 2023 12 beam cases (2) - Copy.jpg 2023 12 beam cases (3) - C...

These keyboards are for sale. Number is same as photo number. 1. IBM Model F 5170 ($450 USD) 2. IBM Model F clone F77 (grey color) (Not Sale) 3. Wang 725-3770-US (Black switch) (Sold in Korea) 4. Keyboard attatched speaker ($100 USD) 5. IBM Model M Trackpoint II Black ($450 USD) 6. Realforce R3 APC ...

Haven't seen this Commodore PC keyboard before (I have a Commodore Colt with matching keyboard which is more like the OG IBM PC layout). This looks like from the PC-AT era?

Curiously, why not consider TMK for a converter as well? Remapping is a matter of using his online keymap editor, saving the file and uploading it to the converter : http://www.tmk-kbd.com/tmk_keyboard/editor/unimap/?adb_usb It can't be done in software, if that is what you want though. The merged ...

The OP's Gen4 should be programmable; what I'm curious about is, is its programming protocol the same as on the Avants? In other words, would the CVT/Avant software work for programming it? If so, then my software ought to work on it too... Using the old Avant software is a pain on modern Windows v...

Ok, after reading up on a bunch more of your (Polecat's) posts on these keyboards, I've learned a lot more and I think your assessment is correct. My Ultra is a Gen2b, has a discrete ROM chip as I mentioned, and no SPI/flash chip, so it's not programmable. I have a 102 which is a Gen3, with no discr...

minivan-sized (12.75x4u) keyboard 60% is small—15 × 5 units—so 12.75 × 4u should be even smaller. But a "minivan?" https://www.motorbiscuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Porsche-B32-Minivan.jpg Much too big! I think of my HHKB as roughly like a VW bug or a Mini, in keyboard terms. Which makes 40% ...

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Please allow me to explain further: I have two desktop PCs. The older one, a 2011 machine running Windows 10, has native PS2 ports. This F/AT works on it with a simple adapter (such as the one shown in your photo). My newer PC, running Windows 11, is USB (no PS2 ports). The advert for the keyboard s...

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Magnificent, thank you! So for the Model M it’s 171mm wide and 12.5mm high, so it subtends an angle of 33° and has a radius of curvature of 300mm, or 11.8 inches (35 barleycorns or shoe size 12 for Chyros’s leftpondian fans). The bigger angle is not too surprising because it has to cover the F key r...

OK, I finished my replacement controller for the battleship. Hooray! The Blackpill-based setup works. There are some hurdles, but they can be overcome. If using GPIO A10 for the matrix, it needs an additional external pull-up resistor. This has already been planned into the schematics for the replac...

I'm a newbie to keyboards so please go easy on me :> I bought this Soarer's converter for my Model F/AT (connecting to a modern desktop PC) and it works great out-of-the-box. However, I want to install or load the genuine Soarer's 1.12 firmware onto it. (A product review says the OEM firmware is not...

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16 Sep 2023, 14:34

60% is small—15 × 5 units—so 12.75 × 4u should be even smaller. But a "minivan?"

I very much approve of your choice for an exemplary minivan

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Doesn’t seem likely.

If you have access to a printer, you should be able to throw a few guesses at it and trial and error your way to where you want to be.

In terms of getting both halves of the split ergo boards to communicate function layers with each other without software remapping or an additional hardware device like hid-remapper, the below idea was mentioned before as another possibility - would this be implementable? "It can be done with scroll...

minivan-sized (12.75x4u) keyboard 60% is small—15 × 5 units—so 12.75 × 4u should be even smaller. But a "minivan?" https://www.motorbiscuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Porsche-B32-Minivan.jpg Much too big! I think of my HHKB as roughly like a VW bug or a Mini, in keyboard terms. Which makes 40% ...

I don't know why the version number flashes and disappears. That could be from the Soarers Converter I'm running. I can try it on a blue cube or Radio Shack dongle next time I have it out. It does the same thing on my other Northgates also, so it isn't just the 101I. Not the converter. Tried it dir...

Ok so I assume you're lost and don't know where to begin, so i'm just gonna layout all the steps to remap/reprogram your soarer's converter. Also keep in mind that I am using Windows 10, the process for Windows 11 should be the same though as far as I know. First you're gonna have to download soarer...

So a few weeks ago I decided to buy a Model F AT keyboard. I'm not a stranger to most things IT-related, but I'd never used a Model F in any way, shape or form, so I figured this would be a fun little excursion into vintage computing. (I do have experience with Model M keyboards, for what it's worth...