deskthority

Rebuild my 4978 beamship

Finish my Omnikey (it's finally going to get blue Alps).
I also want to restore and convert an M0110a and my Thomson TO9. Other than that I still have an unfinished custom build (Unitek K150) sitting around in my desk drawer.

Also, I'm going to sell a few of my boards and will hopefully get lucky and find an affordable Beamer somewhere ...

My first bucking spring keyboard. Bought a Model M that needs a lot of work but I'm looking forward to getting to know it and finally finding out what all the fuss is about.

My projects are divided up into three distinct categories:

Realistic:

• Put cork feet in the F77's underside.
• Order a few deskmats in custom sizes, tailored for the SSK, the F77 and the WASD v2 (so each keyboard will have its own size-matched mat instead of a gigantic 900×400 mm² thing).
• Replace the WASD's controller with that QMK controller I bought in 2019.

Pushing it:

• Actually write that post for DT with my findings about using a numpad on the leftside.
• Learning how to use QMK beyond the web configurator (so I can do some stuff that I'm already doing with Soarer's Converters).
• Keyboard census!
• Completing that half-done 75% build.

Haha, think 2022 2023 2024:

• Keyboard and parts inventory!
• Collecting enough SKCC cream switches for...
• Replacing a pingmaster's Alps SKCC green switches with Alps SKCC cream switches.

Just finished my “warm-up” of cleaning three Unicomp keyboards of various vintages (and fixed the space bar on one). Next is learning how to work with a teensy to get a IBM 122 key Model M to dialog with Linux.

- Dye my M122 case.
- Sort out the C3 Maestro protocol and get a converter set up that will allow me to become the Macro King of the Universe.
- Get the Soarer's documents into the wiki, then work towards better documenting certain features.
- Figure out why the frick a Packard Bell 5130 doesn't work on a known-good PS/2 adapter or just Pro Micro the SOB and be done with it.

depletedvespene wrote: 13 Mar 2021, 23:36 Replace the WASD's controller with that QMK controller I bought in 2019.

I wasn’t around for that. Do / did they have them for Filco MJ2? I remember bpiphany used to do them for various Costar keyboards way back when but I didn’t have one yet.

micmil wrote: 18 Mar 2021, 18:15 - Get the Soarer's documents into the wiki, then work towards better documenting certain features.

A noble endeavour!

Muirium wrote: 18 Mar 2021, 20:07

depletedvespene wrote: 13 Mar 2021, 23:36 Replace the WASD's controller with that QMK controller I bought in 2019.

I wasn’t around for that. Do / did they have them for Filco MJ2? I remember bpiphany used to do them for various Costar keyboards way back when but I didn’t have one yet.

This was a 2018 group buy on GH; I discovered it late (of course), but lucked out into getting an extra controller.

Ah, fair enough. No Filco support, anyway. Does look a clean design though.