deskthority

So funny! I just found this article about retr0bright and was going to answer my own question

Wow! Great shots of the magnets in the key wells!
Do you know how to clean the pads? I was thinking about soaking them in bleach - mine are pretty yellowed.

Presto! Taking both hands apart completely and putting them back together did the trick. I guess whatever was in the way was really stuck in there.
I still plan on doing that mod and it seems like it's not destructive (apart from the trackpoint), so I can work on it without getting a backup pair.

Bummer! No dice on the compressed air...

I'll try that too, thanks. The prices of datahands will only keep going up. People who have come to rely on them to get everyday work done are having a harder and harder time getting them fixed or finding new ones. I'd like to be able to 'free' myself from the high prices of ebay datahands and ...

After using my datahand for about 6 months my numbers and symbols button no longer works. As this is probably just the first of a series of inevitable fixes, I'm hunkering down and doing this mod - http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=12212.0

That's such a bummer - that keyboard is a great idea. If they don't hold patents on the key-wells (or they do and won't sue) there should be an initiative to open source their devices.

I did when I first acquired the keyboard - Lynn Anderson said that they do still provide refurbishments and that she would need some extra info. I haven't heard back in a couple weeks.

Sadly the reset button doesn't help - i think that there is a break in the pcb or those two switches have failed. I'm still going to try to take it apart and see what I can do.

Does datahand.com actually sell new models? It looks like they have an order form...

Well - after learning dvorak on this guy for a week the NAS and mouse mode buttons are broken, I can't switch modes any longer. It's a shame, I was starting to get the hang of it. Any suggestions on a good replacement? I'd like to go with something as ergonomic as possible (hence the datahand) and ...

I found it! Right ring finger east is cmd. I'm silly, posting before I press all the buttons...

Thanks guys! I got a Belkin adapter, it works great. The only hurdle left is finding a mapping for the command key :( It seems there's no way to work it out on the thumbs and the only free key is my left pinky west, which is the DEL key, though my OS isn't recognizing that at all :( The datahand is ...

Thanks, I figured that might be the case. Sucks, despite the current adapter being crap, it was not cheap

Hi, I just bought a 2000 datahand pro II. I'm on Mac OS X 10.8 and can't seem to get any output. I'm using a Dynex ps2->USB adapter to connect the datahand, but with both ps2's plugged in I get a 'USB drawing too much power' warning, and the whole thing gets shut off, so I've only connected the ...