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@ SunshineRag. I found the following parts in the keyboard box that originally came from Lexmark keyboard factory when they were at 740 W New Circle Rd, Lexington KY. (Before Unicomp moved across town in Lexington by the railroad tracks) 1996 IBM model M-13 with trackpoint (92G7461) from 01/22/96. (...

Hello I spent all afternoon rescuing a dirty keyboard (rubber dome) IBM KB-6326. A mistake was made somewhere and I would hate to see it repeated on others. When I push the corner of the button, it takes a lot of force and it jerks. It's unusable. Do you have any ideas or experience? I would like a ...

[…] they charge 50 USD for custom legend on a 1U key. If I were you, I would invest into the tooling, make 50 keysets, leave a couple for myself and resell the rest. As a matter of fact, ordering more than just one set and reselling all the rest for exactly your buying price is just a zero sum oper...

Two items of bad news: 1. Ponoko hasn't even shipped it yet. I guess they're busy over the holidays... all my previous orders were made in exactly the estimated time 2. I ordered 10 PCBs from JLCPCB when I need about 13. I ordered 5 more. Although they cost more each I will match the price of the fi...

I’m a bit late to this party, but here’s mine! https://deskthority.net/wiki/images/1/13/Seirin-Blu%E2%80%99s-RBY-DisplayWrite-SSK.jpeg Had to be screw modded because the barrel plate was cracked, and there’s a regular model m controller as well because the ssk one was dead. Because the controller al...

Hello! We are proud to announce group buy/pre-orders our new design "Ancient Sun". Today we are launching 3 group buys (the other two will be on separate threads, called "White Serenity" and "Theocracy"). This group buy is LIVE right now on the site and available for pre-order through Jan 9th. "Anc...

Hello! We are proud to announce group buy/pre-orders our new design "White Serenity". Today we are launching 3 group buys (the other two will be on separate threads, called "Ancient Sun" and "Theocracy"). This group buy is LIVE right now on the site and available for pre-order through Jan 9th. "Whi...

Hello! We are proud to announce group buy/pre-orders our new design "Theocracy". Today we are launching 3 group buys (the other two will be on separate threads, called "Ancient Sun" and "White Serenity"). This group buy is LIVE right now on the site and available for pre-order through Jan 9th. "The...

Hi all, this is my first post on this forum (actually my 2nd, my first is the german version of this one in the german forum of desktheory). I am an avid HHKB Hybrid aficionado who just ordered a Megalodon Triple Knob Macro Pad to fire off various Keyboard Maestro Macros on the Mac. Unfortunately, t...

Hallo allerseits, dies ist mein erster Post in diesem Forum. Bin begeisterter HHKB Hybrid Aficionado, der sich gerade ein Megalodon Triple Knob Macro Pad geordert hat, um damit diverse Keyboard Maestro Macros auf dem Mac abfeuern zu können. Leider erkennt die Software Vial, die empfohlen wird, um di...

According to DPD’s tracking, the parcel spent several days being examined by customs. Fingers crossed they didn’t mess it all up: all the kits are individually wrapped. Delivery History Date / Time Description 28/11/2022 - 16:22 International Hub - In Transit 28/11/2022 - 15:29 Duty Paid 28/11/2022 ...

I recently posted my "The Franken XT" keyboard and I wanted to do a post that documented that effort. Wheelwriter_XT_MAshup.jpg The goal was to use an extra XT case I had laying around and insert a Wheelwriter 70 assembly. I saw an interesting comment on Reddit that indicated the Wheelwriter barrel ...

I assume you are following https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/docs/spi_driver.md and https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/aemDocuments/documents/APID/ProductDocuments/DataSheets/MCP23008-MCP23S08-Data-Sheet-DS20001919.pdf. Overall, I would expect: Two address pins are hardwired to fix S...

Good afternoon DT, Its no secret that an IBM Model F AT these days are quite hard to find. Ive been on and off looking for quite a while now so when two weeks ago, when a listing for an "Old IBM keyboard" shows up on a local auction site being an F AT, a German one to boot which is allegedly one of ...

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Current MOQ progress*: Base (42/200), Numpad (12/50), Spacebar (13/75), 40's (10/50), ISO (3/25), Macros (7/50), Relegendables (11/75)

*numbers are of 09/13 and exclude ZFrontier numbers

4. Add a Custom Keyboard If you’re setting up your own Configurator, it’s likely that the reason for this is to test out your own keyboard firmware. The instructions below will explain how to do that. It took me a lot of experimenting before I was able to get everything working. I wanted to avoid m...

The new beam spring sample keyboard arrived and I started evaluating it today. It is way too heavy, at 13.55 lbs! The sample case was made of extra thick welded steel - the production cases will of course be more sensibly normal thickness material (steel or aluminum). I don't want to add $50 in inc...

The new beam spring sample keyboard arrived and I started evaluating it today. It is way too heavy, at 13.55 lbs! The sample case was made of extra thick welded steel - the production cases will of course be more sensibly normal thickness material (steel or aluminum). I don't want to add $50 in incr...

I'm still looking for IBM Model F 104 Unsaver. (2022 Aug. 13)



https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV13Y411 ... 33.999.0.0


https://www.zfrontier.com/app/flow/2wPxE6LyZrjy

I'm sorry to hear that. Having lost both my grandfathers to cancer (one skin, one brain) I know how much it hurts. Apologies for any hurt from my cheap jab. Apology accepted. Cancer’s the ultimate son of a bitch. I could be misunderstanding but wouldn't this be a candidate for the QMK firmware loca...

Now, I'm such a QMK rube (beyond Pandrew on Xwhatsit hardware) that I don't even know how to assign controller pins and such. Searching the supported keyboard list on QMK Configurator brings up this similar controller for Model Ms but it runs on the STM32 MCU which is completely different silicon a...

Swill made this excellent tool which takes a Keyboard Layout Editor layout json and spits out a perfectly drawn plate with the proper cuts. Deskthority thread on the topic: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=10228 Just keep in mind that there are some wildcard factors when it comes to laser cut...

Oh yeah and I'm surprised I forgot about this but another really cool set would be IBM's airline reservation keycaps.
https://www.clickykeyboards.com/product ... ong-cable/

Having spent more than a week with my new acquisition it might be the right time to share some experiences from the perspective of a user who is less of a keyboard geek than many others populating this forum, uses a national variant of the keyboard (German in this case) and not only OS X, but also a...

The MK06 is a now obsolete KVM switching keyboard that can emulate a variety of trading keyboards. It is full-size, with three small LCD screens and two add-on keypads. The trading function keys tend to be garishly colored. The actual host connections, such as USB or PS2, as well as power for the ke...

Thanks to the help from a few folks I have put together a description of the Icon Keys on the Extra Keys page, in order from left to right - please let me know if there are any errors or if you have the Unicode codes for the missing items: Icons Row 1 (Unicode in parentheses): 1. ← Backspace 2. ← Ba...

Hi all. I would like to share a recent purchase of this collectible computer in the state of NIB. This is an Acer 710 computer with an 8088 processor. I got it brand new, in original boxes. Along with the computer, there was also his native Acer KB-101A mechanical keyboard on the legendary Alps SKCM...

Mind you, I rarely frequent r/mk or really any other "modern" keyboard fan 'site, but I do remember more than a bit of hype regarding Kailh Box clicky switches and, based on my experience with pink, jade, and navy Box switches, I think those were worth the hype. The hype I did see about the optical ...

UPDATE - It's becoming increasingly more apparent that I am not an electrical engineer to be able to fully understand direction of current flow and properties of phototransistors and such. The ULN2003's seem to be used to effectively "strobe the columns to ground" by completing the circuit using the...

In case you're wondering, it's all PS2: Extra keys: .---.---. .---. .---.---.---.---. .---.---.---.---. .---.---. .---.---. .---.---. | 60| 17| | 1F| | 27| 2F| 37| 3F| | 56| 5E| 6F| 13| | 19| 39| | 51| 53| | 5C| 62| +---+---+ +---+ +-----+ .-------. .---. .---------------. .---------------. .-------...