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for a 122 I would ideally want basically like an ansi-modded f122 battleship

Ellipse wrote: ↑

27 Aug 2021, 22:13

The major news is that I’ve QC’d and shipped out 1700+ keyboards so far

incredible work

I'm going to spin up Windows 10 in VirtualBox to see if it'll work there if you are able to pass through the USB device natively it may work. With jus the generic, translated USB keyboard via the virtualbox virtual keyboard driver, I suspect you may have issues communicating with the firmware on th...

noticing now that my Right Ctrl, keypress is only intermittently being detected. it seems this key is default configured for 'Fn' on my F77. if I open via key tester and repeatedly hit Fn+1, Fn+2 etc. about half the time it detects as F1 or F2 and the other half it only detects as 1 or 2 (fails to d...

I’m really hoping for high-profile keycaps, something like this: https://matt3o.com/about-mt3-profile-and-devtty-set/ yes I almost pulled the trigger on this matt3o devtty set plus the numpad kit in preparation for using it with this beam spring reproduction but I wasn't totally it was compatible, ...

after some UPS delay I got my new model F77 today. it is beautiful and fantastic. thank you so much for keeping this keyboard alive

There is far less case, inner foam, and other materials to deaden and dampen the sound of the new Beam Spring Keyboards compared to the originals.

hope to see sound example video

fantastic, I'd love one.

Orihalcon is the guru of the 4704 107-key variant. I am sure that he has been deluged with requests for them for several years. My guess is that he has supplied the majority of the ones owned by members of this forum. he's certainly where I got mine, and what a beauty it is. While I paid much less ...

finally ordered one, eager to join the fun

https://qelle.tumblr.com/post/92946141766/consoles-1985

Also have you ever stuck your face down in a pingmaster and taken a good whiff? Smells of pure burning plastic. That's gotta be toxic right? (smells fantastic btw)

You could try putting an EMI shield on top of the controller. Some thin foil or something could work. But try and prevent it from shorting out the components! thanks, if I get the guts to try opening this thing and poking around I'll give that a try. Should I be worried this thing is frying my brai...

my pingmaster board interferes with bluetooth, for example if my apple magic trackpad is within 6 inches of the board the cursor lags and skips badly and if you hold the trackpad directly over the keyboard it loses bluetooth connection entirely.

is there any reason for concern or easy fix?

what is this? looks vaguely SKCC ish



https://www.ebay.com/itm/Retrocomputing ... SwSldc0Jb9

great board. I used one on a 3290 terminal for many years. Running batch jobs like that neat little note you have on yours
Now I have the F122 battleship because I love my numpad but I would certainly not pass on picking an unsaver up if I ever find one. congrats

ZedTheMan wrote: ↑

15 Feb 2019, 21:39

maybe they had to promise someone who got tired of listening to it that they would "sell" it, its just going to take "a while".

ok that is brilliant, I am definitely gonna use that one when the time comes

I tried with the built in media keyboard cut/paste etc. codes hoping I could use them and others. I guess Mac OS ignore them, was there never a media keyboard for Mac with such keys? oh well, not a big deal. I will use a macro as suggested to send cmd+c etc.

[OT] Does anyone remember the ballpark figures of what a replacement beam spring unit used to cost back in the 70's and early 80's? I remember seeing like a catalog scan or something like that here in DT, but can't find it anymore :( [/OT] I don't know, but I would bet it was a lot. And adjusted fo...

I hope everybody is ok. It could always be that people have moved on to exciting new hobbies once they feel they have mastered this one, or have nothing new to catch their interest. I know I am that way - get into something intensely for a while including posting actively on the best forums and movi...

I'm on a hackintosh. I've tried programming custom buttons for cut/copy/paste on a pingmaster with hasu convertor, an F122 with a Soarer's and a f107 with an xwhatsit. But in any case they don't seem to work for me in any application in Mac OS. Is this an expected limitation of the OS or does anyone...

I always knew I was a gold digger-.- The smaller the better, my mouse’s sens is always low AF, so I need some space saving things you know ^^ ah that does make sense. I've seen pro gamers and it always amazes me how low the sensitivity they have set their mouse to, using huge sweeping motions of th...

keyboard looks amazing. this is one of the only ansi layout blue alps boards I've heard of. anyone know of others? your idea about tuning a board like a violin sounds pretty awesome

good luck in your search. I have always found it curious people pay such a premium for small keyboards. I've always preferred the opposite. The bigger, heavier and more buttons, the better!

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thanks for the suggestions, I will definitely be trying a sticker or something non destructive if I feel like I can't adapt. I want to make this work as a daily driver since its so cheap, I can buy a backup board. at least until my kid grows up and is less likely to spill a cup onto my prized F122, ...

Muirium wrote: ↑

16 Jan 2019, 01:33

Model Fs don’t have them either.

luckily there are model M keycaps with bumps, the previous owner of my F122 thankfully added them. Replacement keycaps compatible with pingmaster are out there so maybe I'll source some if I decide not to deface the stock caps

Just acquired an IBM pingmaster with an external converter by Hasu. I can deal with the wonky chinese keycaps, but the lack of homing bumps on the F and J keycaps is bothersome. Anyone have a good method to add them DIY? like a tiny drop of epoxy or something? side note, I see the layout editor here...

andrewjoy wrote: ↑Good luck with your search

he needs the keyboard first for the Good luck (GL) button

SaltyMcSushi wrote: ↑with some research you can also figure out which keyboard are which by looking at minor differences in the keycaps.

I'd love to know more on how to spot which TI-99/4a have the pingmaster compatible keycaps. are they all black? I see some beige models with keycaps that look like they might work