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Up for sale is a rather weird G80-1165 by incomm. - No idea about it's history - I cleaned it, but you may want to give it another extensive clean - Cable is chewed, but working. I can throw in another coiled PS/2 cable or solder it on if desired - See scratched keys on closeup photo - One corner of...

In case you missed my pm - I'm in for one pcb

Nice find! Be sure to add this info to the wiki!

... Oh wait

You can browse it to an extend using a mobile browser, but you won't be able to add anything right now. Real bummer.

Sorry for double posting; but can anybody recommend another place to document classic keyboards? Preferrably a wiki, I find forums for documenting a bit tedious to navigate

Looks like a great project, I might snatch a pcb if shipping to europe isn't too expensive.

Oh, and I kinda hate to ask - what is the advantage to other projects like the blusb? viewtopic.php?f=55&t=17388

Has been like that for me since approximately two weeks or maybe even longer. At least some pages on the wiki are readable with the Google translate mode ("translate this page" next to the title on google search). Meh, that really stinks. I think the deskthority wiki is invaluable and I really like...

Is anybody here with server access to fix this ?

I'm not able to open the wiki at all, getting a HTML 500 error

That's probably the strangest keyboard I ever saw, with Control, Alt, and Backspace up where the missing function keys would go, the mystery pad, and the XT-size full length spacebar. The divot over the mystery pad looks like it might have been intended for a trackball, but there aren't any trackba...

It looks like the top left branding says Incomm™, but I'm not sure. The company was founded in 1992 and I feel like that's a bit too new. But it does match up with the board having a card reader, so. Where is the card reader located? The top? I think it is incomm, since that's what the lcd says whe...

keycap wrote: ↑

27 Oct 2024, 04:37

Wow Never seen this one! What switches do the overlay buttons use? Rubber domes?

There is no escape...

Yeah, it is a real head scratcher to me. The keyboard is all mx blacks (+gray for the space bar), the overlay thingy has this funny tall caps:

Hey there! I've got a G80-1165 and was wondering about some things. https://i.imgur.com/YVlLxlM.jpeg My questions: Does anybody know what was the use for this thing? It _seems_ to have an integrated card reader. I was wondering what the overlay for the blank keys looked like. Does anybody has a phot...

TNT wrote: ↑

20 Jul 2024, 21:24

Probably Nixdorf Magnetic Valve. Maybe check the site of the nixdorf museum

Edit: I also found this: https://www.ebay.at/itm/284236957089

Ah yup, seems to be right! Thanks!

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/wvGRk

What a sexy beast! Can anyone indentify it?

I just added another keyboard to the wiki (https://deskthority.net/wiki/Siemens_AK/U6). That's a nice find, thank you for adding it. I've moved it to /wiki/Siemens_97801-132 , as AK/U6 is not the model name but the production stamp. We've already got a successor of it in the wiki, which is rubberdo...

I just added another keyboard to the wiki (wiki/Siemens_AK/U6). It has a strange logo on the pcb, anybody recognizing this? https://i.imgur.com/EnRbeb9.png

Received my blusb the other day and decided to give it a little cover

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6656780

It could be Cherry MX Dark Blue if the stem is darker than it seems on the photo. BTW you didn't add to the wiki any picture of the keyboard depicting the darker switches. Hi again! It was pretty late yesterday and I had a second look at the switches. I put them side to side in daylight and they lo...

I need some advice from you smart people :D I just added this keyboard to the wiki: https://deskthority.net/wiki/A-2_KB-2101/2 I can't identify the switches realiably. They look like MX blues, but they feel and sound very different. I compared the keyboard to another MX blue I have (a chicony). The ...

Heya, I fiddled around with some cpu watchdogs, but their pinout is just to wild. It kinda looks like a rat's nest if you solder them to the pcb. So I opted for an uC in the end. https://i.imgur.com/YdDjj4h.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/EVat0nE.jpeg I used an attiny45. I started at some nanoseconds for t...

just disassembled the whole thing, seems to be an alps spring bridge with a rod mount. I'll take some pictures for the wiki later this day
edit: I just realised that the switch is already documented by pictures

necro, but did you succeed in the end? seems like a great boards, waiting for updates and good luck! Another necro; did anyone of you succeed? I recently got a T1500 and soarer's converter on its bare bones pretty much does nothing :( edit: I'll investigate myself, I have some ideas 😁 From pics the...

necro, but did you succeed in the end? seems like a great boards, waiting for updates and good luck! Another necro; did anyone of you succeed? I recently got a T1500 and soarer's converter on its bare bones pretty much does nothing :( edit: I'll investigate myself, I have some ideas 😁 edit: the ide...

any idea about this switch? just found in an olympia cd 102

The keyboard with the unknown yellowish Alps clones is from a MicroOrchid PC3 portable. I have updated the wiki article and emailed MicroOrchid asking for details. Too bad the email link for most subsidiaries is the one and the same as for the original manufacturer in China, so in the end it will b...

OK, my bad, they're the real thing. I'm sorry your stabilisers broke in the process... :roll: The extra pictures would be useful in the Alps SKCM Blue article. Feel free to use them =) As I said, I'm stupid when it comes to stuff like this. And no problem about the stabilisers, I just printed new o...

Yet another switch that need identification :( https://deskthority.net/wiki/Codegen_Technology_CG-84A1 You have to open at least one, and possibly the one under the space bar too as the spring something is likely to be different. External looks alone don't help identifying Alps clones, and the pict...

Yet another switch that need identification wiki/Codegen_Technology_CG-84A1