deskthority

ebay comes to your rescue with pre-made foam for about $20 US , sans shipping (ships from Canada). I never had any trouble cutting foam (I put the sheet under the plate when I spray paint it, so I have the exact location of the holes) but this looks like a clean (if pricey) product. Maybe I missed ...

hellothere wrote: ↑

13 Nov 2022, 22:36

a Gateway AnyKey without caps

Aren't those either MX or Alps mounts?

Wouldnt sandblasting the barrel plate potentially risk the plastic stabilizer rivets? The stabilizer tabs can be removed with a small flat head screwdriver and replaced with a larger one. Use a small screwdriver (smaller than the size of the hole) to push them gently but firmly out from behind and ...

It is nice to see a clean simple complete set on the top.

Awesome board!
But that small Backspace would drive me bonkers.

The Buddha taught that wishing that the world was not the way it is can be a cause of suffering.
Relax, let it go.

Actually, Soarer originally wrote his firmware for the AT, then expanded it. https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2510&p=508038&hilit=xt%2Fat+converter#p508038 That said, I have used simple adapters in your situation with no problems. Are you sure that the keyboard actually works in its own r...

US Post Office has "flat rate" parcels that go domestically for $10-20 and you can often find one that will suit you if the item is a moderate size. They are considered "priority" and usually delivery pretty quickly. Outbound international is a VERY different story and the "large flat rate game boar...

I agreed to buy it if the seller charged a reasonable amount for shipping. That is always a losing proposition. These days, I do my best to get an accurate measure of the size and weight of the final package, and let ebay do its own "calculate shipping" process for the location (wherever that ends ...

Nihilitas wrote: ↑

26 Oct 2022, 15:06

Alps Switches that I plan on putting on a decent board.

The best "common" chassis is the Dell AT101 and the BEST chassis is the Northgate Omnikey.

My mother had a high school friend who became a writer. After he graduated from school, he went to a respected "writers' colony" where the headmistress made them spend a year copying major contemporary novels to "get the feel" of what it is like to write a great book. This was in the early 1950s and...

How are you “saving them the PayPal fees,” then? Maybe I am not understanding, but ebay fees are roughly 10% and Paypal fees are roughly 3% - depending .... Taking the sale local and paying cash still obligates the seller to ebay for the transaction fee but a cash payment avoids the Paypal fee. If ...

A seller who is not familiar with keyboard switches and caps might be afraid that he would break one of the parts and render his item worthless, or nearly so.

A seller who understands the keyboard market knows that a buyer wants to see the switch.

someone lands a load of junk their nutty old relative was collecting This is true for just about everything. I have literally tons of "stuff" that I have collected over my lifetime, and my kids will have very little use for the overwhelming majority of it. "My precious .... " (fill in the blanks) T...

For many years tonic water was my soft drink of choice, until I pretty much gave up ordinary soft drinks because of the ludicrous amount of sugar. "Diet" tonic is an abomination, artificial sweeteners and quinine are a blasphemous combination. These days I do enjoy seltzer water, but that is hardly ...

I don't know the specific answer, but back in the day IBM was exceptionally good about covering all the possible bases.

Looking at the code set in Soarer's docs it looks like "RALT" is the right side ALT key, but I am guessing. Have you tried that one?

Made mine myself Yes, the 1200 units refers only to the cables that Orihalcon has sold via ebay, and does not count DT and GH direct sales. I own at least one of them although I usually use my own boxes, and have several several Teensy modules installed internally (I hate those old fat coiled cable...

Meowmaritus wrote: ↑

14 Oct 2022, 03:04

the Soarer's converters sold by orihalcon on ebay

Holy mackerel ! He has sold 12 hundred of those things !

Does he still make them himself by hand?

Meowmaritus wrote: ↑

14 Oct 2022, 03:04

a passive AT -> ps/2 converter will work just fine

a way to connect ps/2 to your PC.

You can "daisy-chain" AT -> PS/2 -> USB with all passive adapters with no drama.

hellothere wrote: ↑

12 Oct 2022, 02:55

I, quite literally, finished building something exactly like that about 10 minutes ago, only it uses TMK. Yours looks better

That embarrassing guide from years ago proved my concept.

Subsequently I built a nicer one, still using parts from the electrical department at Home Depot.

apastuszak wrote: ↑

11 Oct 2022, 19:02

My preference is to use a Soarer's Converter. But that only works with PS/2 boards.

I don't know where you heard that. My old project looks embarrassingly crude, but it works fine.

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=58 ... msg1348717

even shifting that locally would cost more than $130. Envy y'all, so I do. Shipping is escalating fast over here too, and international shipping outbound from the US is crazy. I could see the 2 big pieces in a large box going ground for $80 and $50 would probably ship a smaller box with the rest of...

That is cool! I would think that a nylon case would be a very good idea.
The back is butt-ugly but that doesn't matter.
But the F AT is where it would really be worthwhile.

That is a lot more effort than the floss mod. But it makes me wonder whether something like a small square of black electrical tape might be enough for just a bit of relief. Soon I will have to disassemble my favorite 122-key for a thorough cleaning, I am getting doubled and continuous characters fr...

depletedvespene wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2022, 23:53

Displaced LCtrl key. It's supposed to be in the CORNER!

I have had a T440p for some years and it is a great little machine.

Naturally, as a 122-key terminal user on my primary computer, I have plenty of bones that I could pick about the layout, but this is the one that truly makes me crazy.

Muirium wrote: ↑

14 Aug 2022, 01:42

this clip

I have never heard that astonishing bit of language censorship/cleanup.

I did not use a spray paint because I live in the city There probably isn't a realistic alternative to spraying. On something keyboard-sized it should be manageable, a sheet of newspaper on the ground works well. And within minutes it is probably dry enough to carry inside if you are careful and ha...

I think that somebody here started making something much better and cheaper than the iMate.

I have no idea about the quality of this, or whether it is even legit, but here is something: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255631156631?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20201210111314%26meid%3D94dc476df06c47aa8174c6f7737d3561%26pid%3D101195%26rk%3D1%26rkt...