deskthority

Hey, I just recieved a keyboard without a cable, a filco fkb-109j.


I unfortunately can't take a picture right now, but I'm still hoping someone can identify the female port for the cable from a rubbish ms-paint drawing I made.



I apologise if this is glaringly obvious to others - if there's no luck, I'll post a picture once I can

...ps2?

PS/2 has a vertical bar, not a horizontal one, and 6 pins, not 4.

Looks like ADB to me. The Apple cable.

Very strongly resembles an ADB port, but I don't see why a non-Apple keyboard from Filco would use an ADB interface. However, the model number strongly resembles that of a Macally keyboard, which often used ADB. That definitely is not a PS/2 port though. If the keyboard has two of these ports, it's almost guaranteed to be an ADB keyboard. It can be converted, but the converters are much more expensive and harder to find than standard PS/2 to USB converters. PS/2 is not at all compatible with ADB, though, despite looking quite similar.

If that is a keyboard, it is almost surely ADB.

S-video cable is a perfect substitute.

yep, can confirm it's ADB, thanks for the help everyone