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IBM Model Ms, UK RJ45 connector - can these be made to work?
Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 13:52
by urbancamo
There's currently a listing for IBM Model Ms in the UK Model 1395764 with an RJ45 connector - anyone have any information about whether these can be made to work with a PC?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IBM-Model-M-3 ... SS:GB:1120
Thanks, Mark
Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 13:53
by urbancamo
Forget that, I knew I should have googled the part number first!
Question already answered here of course!
http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... t6407.html
Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 15:09
by Muirium
Yup. They're good and clean. I use mine quite a bit. Best £30 on a keyboard I've spent.
Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 16:11
by Dgsbllx
Muirium wrote:Yup. They're good and clean. I use mine quite a bit. Best £30 on a keyboard I've spent.
+1
I can also vouch for the goodness and cleanness of these keyboards. Typing this on it now
Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 16:33
by iAmAhab
Would love one of these, but the shipping is just to brutal.
Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 19:36
by Muirium
I could proxy for you. Mine was well wrapped and I reckon it would be easy to do. But shipping to Scandinavia is always expensive, isn't it?
Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 19:52
by iAmAhab
Muirium wrote:I could proxy for you. Mine was well wrapped and I reckon it would be easy to do. But shipping to Scandinavia is always expensive, isn't it?
Unfortunately it's always very expensive. I checked some postage rates using this site:
http://www.royalmail.com/price-finder
and it seems like the 50£ shipping quote the seller has is about as cheap as it gets.
Thank you for offering though.
Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 20:55
by Peter
Just the caps ...
Not to mention the Grey-label Logo/case !!
'JUMP' - 'Send Line' etc etc ..
Yes, they can be made to work -
-You simply take the cap-tops and substitute them with whatever is on your PS/2 Model M !
Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 21:00
by Peter
Also :
It's a 'English'-language keyboard -
Yet, it has 'AltGr' !!
Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 21:32
by Muirium
UK ISO has Alt Gr. It's hardly used for any symbols at all (most local nerd friends of mine have no idea why Alt Gr exists on their keyboards) but the € requires it, if memory serves. I prefer ANSI myself!
The keyboards this thread is about work quite nicely with Soarer's converter. Some of the keys require a good remapping, given the oddball terminal layout. Here's my code:
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remapblock
caps_lock lgui
f13 esc
europe_1 europe_2
europe_2 backslash
pad_plus pad_enter # Numberpad "Enter"
esc num_lock # "Jump"
num_lock pad_equals # Blank key right of Jump
scroll_lock pad_slash # "Send Line"
extra_sysrq pad_asterix # Blank / "SetUp" key right of Send Line
pad_asterix pad_minus # "Local"
pad_minus pad_plus # ","
f23 printscreen # "Print"
f24 scroll_lock # "Print Line"
lang_4 pause # "Hold"
endblock
macroblock
# Soarer's Double Shift Caps Lock
macro lshift rshift
press caps_lock
endmacro
macro rshift lshift
press caps_lock
endmacro
endblock
That makes Caps Lock into a Windows / Command key, and uses a Shift+Shift macro to toggle caps lock, those rare times I ever actually want it.