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ah the 5140 systems i managed to rescue the leftovers of one of the keyboards that had been harvested for the brown alps and converted it to USB, got an acrylic case made and now i use it for work at a community centre where i volunteer. That sounds awesome! Do you have any pics? yes i do, DSCF1460...

ah the 5140 systems i managed to rescue the leftovers of one of the keyboards that had been harvested for the brown alps and converted it to USB, got an acrylic case made and now i use it for work at a community centre where i volunteer. would be great to see the systems either preserved or even put...

ah looks like it was from the same seller however they appear to have now sold out

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14 Jun 2019, 09:40

I've been on and off watching these WEY for a while... (a few years)
What is missing is the specialized cable - not to be bought from the seller nor easily found elsewhere.

the cable is available on ebay, i will post a link when i get home later tonight

the cables can be found on ebay, there is a German seller, just search wey tec and they will come up, have tried to find the cable elsewhere but no luck a different cable i also ordered from Germany had the wrong number of pins. As for the control box i can't help you there.

how an earth were they able to run a business with everything being in such a mess with things dumped everywhare i mean great for us that want the stuff but how the hell would you find anything if it was a part that was needed etc

hmm perhaps you would have better luck selling on mechmarket or GH, If the keycaps were not so non standard on the right side then i would pick it up.

i think by using clamps and forcing the backplate into the tabs rather then bending the tabs themselves means that there is no mechanical stress put on the tabs unlike what your method would involve by bending the tabs out of the way.

i guess its just because the huge stack that was available has now mostly being sold though i would find it terrible if the pingmaster was so far a users only experience of alps and IBM but i suspect if a warehouse full of Model Fs was found and sold for cheap then you would see them everywhare also

pictures?

Nice collection so far, looking forward to seeing what the future sales will be.

I would say the best way to do it would be to use something like QMK firmware and have the different layouts that you want on different layers so you would be able to cycle to the layer that you want depending on the system you are in and with all programming done and remaining on the keyboard level.

the smell is from a lot of excess flux on the pcb i don't know why they secided to bathe it in flux but that seems to be what they have done

i think that the modifiers and other keys you mentioned used different sensors the wiki article mentions several types so that would expplain the different layout for those keys

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In answer to the other questions: In original pcb Pins 2 and 3 are generating an output however one pin would be connected to a row and the other would be connected to a column and both row and column would be read to determine the position of the switch however it is not always a set pin for row a ...

i have the hardware to do a build, i was just waiting on a few more replacement sensors need to pm dorkvader again but as soon as i get the sensors then i can see if it will work. I believe Slom did manage to get a keyboard working but not sure if it was NKRO.

ok so in your photo, the red is what you will use as rows i assume is the + on the sensor, the Black is ground and can therefore be wired together as you have done. Both central pins commoned together will be the columns. the idea being is that the power (rows) are strobed so therefore if the sensor...

the coding will be the same for any normal board as long as the hardware is correct i have seen your previous restorations so doing this will follow the same thing though you will probably need to handwire or create a new pcb

Very interesting, I have just today came back from a camping trip so therefore was not able to post yesterday however i believe i can help you somewhat with making it NKRO. I myself have an SD hall effect board though it looks like your switches are older given the 76 date code and they do not have ...

All of the pads you circled are on 2u keys or the enter key therefore i do not think they would have had any springs on them in the first case

looks very much like foam and foil i guess that was just a cheaper way to do it

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you will be ok just hooking the 16 pins to the controller no need for other circuitry

Hi, I am wanting a bigfoot case for a project if anyone has transplanted the innards into an XT and has the case left then name your price + shipping to UK.

cherry solid state capacitive so foam and foil though the keycap mount and profile look to not have been documented

seems very easy to do you just need to map out the matrix, then you can probably even do an internal conversion if there is space inside for a teensy or a pro micro. QMK has support for rotary encoders so you could even use the existing ones for volume or mouse cursor etc.

it would also be worth moving the keycaps around when you spray them, looks like the ones at the edges are not getting enough UV compared to those in the middle.

The thing the customer has to understand is that retrobriting is only a temporary solution, the keycaps will yellow again over time and may yellow to more of an extent then they are currently. The keycaps may become too white known as bleaching if left in contact with the peroxide too long but other...