[Gllug] Keyboards

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:14:24PM +0000, Alistair Mann wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 15:40 +0000, Mark Williams wrote:
> >>> What would people recommend?
> >> Second-hand IBM Model-M or new [buckling spring] equivalent from
> >> Unicomp.  Decals are not used; the letters (and Windows key pictures,
> >> for those variants which have them) appear to be sublimation printed
> >> into the key surfaces and probably take a _long_ time to wear through.
> > 
> > I have a keyboard like this (Wyse iirc - it's in another room) which I
> > love, but it is old (I think it came with my 486SX box from Morgans in
> > 1993) and only has a DIN type connector. I have it plugged into a server
> > that rarely needs attending to. Someone tell me there is a way of
> > plugging these into USB sockets and I'll think about it (the DIN to PS/2
> > converter I have has a tendency to fall out of the socket when even in
> > moderate use.)
> 
> I understood that Model M AT Connector keyboards (the DIN connector you 
> mention) drew too much power via usb to be reliable; I may be wrong.

Apparently for the same reason you can't daisychain AT->PS/2 and
PS/2->USB connectors together either :-(  My dad has a rather nice AT
IBM keyboard which he wants to rescue too ...

> In the meantime, Model M with USB connectors are available because 
> they're still in production. Lookit Unicomp -- www.pckeyboards.com

This looked like an interesting little project:

http://www.beyondlogic.org/keyboard/keybrd.htm

Rich.

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