I found this keyboard for like $3 and it’s perfect
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How do you connect it to your computer? I have a big old keyboard but it's from before there were PS2 ports so I don't know what to do with it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Many/most of them can just use a DIN to PS/2 and then if needed a PS/2 to USB adapter. Unless you have one of the more exotic old connectors (SDL, ADB, etc), that is usually all it takes.
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I have an Omnikey, but I never use it because the keys have stiction issues. I use my Dell AT-101 now after my Model F died.
That's sadly common with SKCM Alps switches. You can clean them out, but it suuuucks to do a full keyboard of them.
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Isn't it super heavy as it contains a metal core? Or else it's another one from the same era.
I don't know but I guess Packard Bell is way too modern to have heavy stuff inside.
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It goes clicky click in a nice way. It feels solid, my other keyboards are shitty dollar tree ones which have RGB for some reason.
That’s an excellent reason. Thanks for sharing.
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How do you connect it to your computer? I have a big old keyboard but it's from before there were PS2 ports so I don't know what to do with it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Well, you could get this to go to PS/2: https://www.cableleader.com/6-din5-female-to-mini-din6-male-at-to-ps-2-keyboard-adapter-cable.html
Then this to get from PS/2 to USB if you need to: https://www.cableleader.com/usb-type-a-male-to-ps2-6-pin-female-converter-for-logitech.html
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Is it weird if I remember exactly how this feels?
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Ohhhh I know these. Btc dome with slider switches, I've kind of wanted one of these for a while now. They use cherry MX compatible keycaps
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I had one of these when I was a kid, it's good to see an old friend again!
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I'm typing on the black Dell version of this right now.
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I’m dirt poor so all of my tech is ancient.
Damn, I see a firewire port on there too!
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L-shaped Enter key master race.
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I'm typing on the black Dell version of this right now.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Me too! I’d get a new mechanical keyboard but they start asking if I want red, brown, blue or beige switches and I’m like “I dunno what that is!”. Also they cost a tonne and my Dell came free with a tower PC.
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Still has a windows key. Microsoft must have made some crazy OEM deal with keyboard manufacturers.
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How do you connect it to your computer? I have a big old keyboard but it's from before there were PS2 ports so I don't know what to do with it.
My newest computer (custom mini-ITX with an AMD 5700X3D, 64 GB RAM, Radeon 9070XT, 4 TB NVME, etc.) is still compatible with the keyboard from my first computer (a Tandy 1000 RLX HD with an Intel 80286, 1 MB RAM, VGA graphics, 20 MB HDD). Manufactured three decades apart, but they both have PS/2 ports!
I still have that Tandy keyboard; I should dust it off and plug it in.
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I hope those aren't pubs up there on the right
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I have two of its older siblings. Both having an older design, one US layout with the bigass enter key and no winkeys, one HU ISO layout with winkeys.
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Ah, the beige years.
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L-shaped Enter key master race.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Nah, fuck that shape. Look what they did to my boy Right Shift. I'm glad L-shaped Enter keys died out in the mid 90s.
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Ah, the beige years.
The early naughts were a little more aesthetic.
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Nice, but definitely needs a cleaning
