Comfort Keyboard? More like passing interest turned obssession!
Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 02:10
Hello All!
New to Deskthority. It's Storytime!
(If you don't want the story scroll down to the TL:DR)
About 2 months ago, my wife and I went to the Goodwill Bins, which is where unsorted stuff goes and sells by the pound(!!!). IMy Wife asked me if this keyboard was any good?
http://www.comfortkeyboard.com/keyboards_comfort.html
I was shocked to say the least, I had never seen a keyboard so unique or so darn heavy. So I bought it, and thus began my search.
It didn't come with any connection cable. It has 2 female connections per section which are RJ11 sized and 6P6C. My first try was the reddit community /MechanicalKeyboards, I didn't get any direction there, (except for today which directed me here!).
Next step was to contact the manufacturer, I have left 6 messages there with no call back. Interesting side point, I think they have an actual Tape Cassette Answering Machine! Next up, I tried contacting an affiliate Fentek Industries, to see if they had any of the connections lying around. The CS agent told me that she was pretty sure that I was showing her the First Model of the Comfort Keyboard System.
Next up I changed out the Keycaps ... I really had to as the keyboard was missing several of them already. I then gently disassembled the 10-key section to see what I was dealing with. Rubber Domes ... Not wonderful but nice... From a Geekhack thread I seem to remember a 35g push?(not sure really.)
Then I got a wild hair and bought what I thought was the right cable.
That didn't work. So I let the project sit for a week or 2 to see if my reddit post would yield any results. It didn't. Then, I decided to give the Soarer's Conversion a shot. I am out of my league here. I missed something in translation and am not even sure if I connected it properly.
Now we come to Today. I had some free time and I decided to do a deep dive into the Interwebs to find something ... anything, that could help me revive this Two Decade Old Relic.
See Pics Below:
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I am trying to revive this keyboard and I believe it will work. I have a Teensy 2.0 (as pictured above) but I am not sure I have the pinout right on the connection on the keyboard. Can anyone give this noob journeyman direction?
Thank you kindly for your time.
New to Deskthority. It's Storytime!
(If you don't want the story scroll down to the TL:DR)
About 2 months ago, my wife and I went to the Goodwill Bins, which is where unsorted stuff goes and sells by the pound(!!!). IMy Wife asked me if this keyboard was any good?
http://www.comfortkeyboard.com/keyboards_comfort.html
I was shocked to say the least, I had never seen a keyboard so unique or so darn heavy. So I bought it, and thus began my search.
It didn't come with any connection cable. It has 2 female connections per section which are RJ11 sized and 6P6C. My first try was the reddit community /MechanicalKeyboards, I didn't get any direction there, (except for today which directed me here!).
Next step was to contact the manufacturer, I have left 6 messages there with no call back. Interesting side point, I think they have an actual Tape Cassette Answering Machine! Next up, I tried contacting an affiliate Fentek Industries, to see if they had any of the connections lying around. The CS agent told me that she was pretty sure that I was showing her the First Model of the Comfort Keyboard System.
Next up I changed out the Keycaps ... I really had to as the keyboard was missing several of them already. I then gently disassembled the 10-key section to see what I was dealing with. Rubber Domes ... Not wonderful but nice... From a Geekhack thread I seem to remember a 35g push?(not sure really.)
Then I got a wild hair and bought what I thought was the right cable.
That didn't work. So I let the project sit for a week or 2 to see if my reddit post would yield any results. It didn't. Then, I decided to give the Soarer's Conversion a shot. I am out of my league here. I missed something in translation and am not even sure if I connected it properly.
Now we come to Today. I had some free time and I decided to do a deep dive into the Interwebs to find something ... anything, that could help me revive this Two Decade Old Relic.
See Pics Below:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-TL:DR-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
I am trying to revive this keyboard and I believe it will work. I have a Teensy 2.0 (as pictured above) but I am not sure I have the pinout right on the connection on the keyboard. Can anyone give this noob journeyman direction?
Thank you kindly for your time.