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I was roaming around some local thrift shop and I came upon two of these radioshack keyboards: http://i.imgur.com/yBYEO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/yItGy.jpg http://i.imgur.com/W3M2n.jpg I had a picture of the keys, but that must have been accidentally deleted. They had spring right underneath them, don'...

Or if anyone knows a good paint that will still allow for functional trackball usage, I'd be interested in purchasing an additional trackball and posting the results.

Does anyone know the size of the Logitech M570 trackball? Have you found any places that offer cool/interesting alternatives?



Trent

A used Focus 2001, no super keys, AT adapter?

Yeah, on my next one I am going to put the knots on the inside. Sadly, I thought about this after I had finished the project. It is a bit more difficult when it comes to closing the zipties, but would be worth it in the long run. And I kinda like the dotmatrix ink

(yes...I am American)(I'm sorry...;]) Never apologize for being American. Secondly, I am jealous that your FK-2001 has a Windows Key. I got one for free at my universities computer graveyard, I am doing another expedition through it tomorrow actually. I found the dustcover to be stupid, so I ripped...

woody wrote:Ethernet is colorblind.

Yes I know, which is why I was suspicious.

Ah ok prava. How do you secure the shipping for a group buy? Are all of the caps sent to one person, who then distributes? Or is it setup in a way so that all of the parties interested are sent to the distributor for a discounted rate, and then at that point the distributor takes care of the shippin...

ripster wrote:Bunch of weirdos and homosexual brolove.

I wouldn't know , no account lol

Ok sorry, I don't know a lot of the lingo and it is still a bit hard for me to find items

Someone at the university said that Cray computers used to mark cables like this so that no one could reverse engineer the pairs, but I don't know if I believe that. It functions just fine to connect devices at very short ranges, kind of enjoy it as it bridges a port on my router to a switch.

ripster wrote:Oops. Let's try again. Opening up a FK-2001:

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title= ... Wiki#Other

Oh thank you I did not see this. Geekhack won't let me register an account for some reason, and I have not browsed that board quite yet.

Has anyone ever seen an Ethernet cord with these colors?

Great job, thats exactly what I meant. Denture tabs, the one thing every keyboard geek should have in his cleaning kit^^. I did some research to determine if it was the right thing when I began the cleaning. It seems that they have a variety of uses for cleaning so I don't mind having the 40 tabs t...

ripster wrote:What is a flippy?

fixed

I forgot about those. Most of the time when I am in school labs they all have modern rubber dome dell keyboards, and i use use em there. At home and on laptop I use Q-Dir, which pretty much eliminates the need to use the default windows explorer. Q-Dir is quite superior in my opinion. Also, on home ...

I don't think it's that bad... Could be better but still.

Can you PM me that group buy?

nathanscribe wrote:Why are they sloppy?

It looks Benetton circa 1987.

They aren't 100% square, so one edge will be off, the other three are just fine

I have gotten used to my FK-2001, which does not have a Windows key. I just reprogrammed my Griffin Powermate to have a push be Windows+R to open a command line, which is all I ever used with the windows key anyways.

I just ordered an IBM Model M (1391401) 1993 w/ blue IBM logo! Very excited to get it. Thanks for the feedback!

I found out that unicomp bought the patent for the IBM Model M some time ago. I wanted to find out what the differences in quality were. Is it worth purchasing an original IBM Model M from clickykeyboards.com for ~$85 or going to unicomp (pckeyboards.com) and getting one of their new models. I know ...

I recently got a Dell XPS 15 inch laptop for 37%, it was a good deal, check out their presidents day sale.

I love the awesome face Esc key, has anyone seen keycaps, or a board like this before?



I notice that it is a filco, but I can't match anything to it besides that. I really want to know where the person got that key from.

Hello all, I wanted to show you a nifty project I did this weekend. So, I remember seeing somewhere that someone had made a pencil holder with some old floppy drives, and I wanted to try it out myself. All you need are 5 floppy disks (I used 3 1/2 size), and 12 zipties (a few extra if you screw up a...

I got all of the keys off (really need to get a key puller though, got a few small scratches on the edges of some of them but no worries. Put all of the keys in a bowl with warm water and put denture cleaning tabs in (I assume that is what you meant by dental tabs, if not either way it worked great)...

The cleaning suggestions helped a lot! The FK-2000 is working better than it ever has. Thanks for the introductions!

Oh I see! I was using some basic converter but I'll try a few others. I have seen the blue one sold at a few places online, and always saw that it got great ratings. After some researching I have found the understanding between alps and other key models. If dental caps don't work with the keys, will...

Ok, another question. This is an AT keyboard, I have it modified to connect to PS/2 to my desktop. I have tried adding a PS/2 -> USB adapter (the simple ones) but they have failed to work. Do I need a special PS/2 -> USB adapter or are there just too many adapters? I would love to have: AT -> PS/2 -...

Hello all, I am Trent. I wanted to introduce myself, give a bit of background, and ask some beginner questions. So, I am new to the input device subculture since about two days ago. I saw an IBM Model M and something changed inside of me (lol)... So, I've enjoyed clicky keyboards for a very long tim...