I found this keyboard for like $3 and it’s perfect
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Does it weigh a ton and have mighty ClIcKs that wake up the dead? If so, good find!
Weight and dopamine releasing clicks are the best.
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I have that exact one. It’s a membrane board, but not bad sounding. I love the Big Ass Enter key. I tried and failed to convert it to mechanical. Impossible to find a mechanical keyboard with a BAE, sadly.
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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.
It's probably a DIN plug. They made DIN to PS2 adapters
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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.
I don't speak from personal experience, but it's my understanding you can do this with an active (as opposed to passive) ps2 to USB adapter. Should be compatible with pretty much any ps2 keyboard.
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everytime someone posts a non iso layout, i kill a hostage
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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.
Absolute worst case, open it up, rip out its guts and replace with an Arduino set up for HID mode.
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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.
There's a couple options from before the ps2 standard, but I'd guess it's a 5-pin DIN connector on an AT keyboard (e.g. IBM model M). You'll need to know more about the keyboard to make a determination, but you might get lucky with a passive adapter to PS2 and chain to USB. Before the ps2 standard, there was more variety between manufacturers in both signaling and connectors.
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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.
I’m dirt poor so all of my tech is ancient.
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What makes it perfect for you?
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.
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What makes it perfect for you?
I mean.....are you looking at it?
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That's a damn fine lookin' keyboard right there!
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That keyboard gives off hot dad vibes for sure!
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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.
If it's a model M there's a guy on eBay that sells a model M USB cable.
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It's probably a DIN plug. They made DIN to PS2 adapters
Pretty sure there's also DIN to USB
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If it's a model M there's a guy on eBay that sells a model M USB cable.
I believe Packard Bell boards of that era are BTC-made rubber dome.
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I have that exact one. It’s a membrane board, but not bad sounding. I love the Big Ass Enter key. I tried and failed to convert it to mechanical. Impossible to find a mechanical keyboard with a BAE, sadly.
Look into vintage ALPS boards like the Focus FK-2001.
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I dunno man. It’s no Northgate Omnikey.
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.
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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.
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I believe Packard Bell boards of that era are BTC-made rubber dome.
And the person I replied to said he had an old keyboard that predates the PS2 keyboard port. Hence me mentioning that there's an adapter cable for the model m, just in case that's what the person I replied to has.
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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.
