what's this one?

[grave00]

Saw this in a storage unit. Wasn't sure what to make of it. Had some similar stuff. I didn't get pictures of it all. There was an IBM mini attached to a terminal. Wasn't sure if there is interest in those as I understand they don't adapt to modern PC.

[Ascaii]

IBM mini should go for about 150-200$, you should grab it and all other interesting stuff and put it for sale here. This board looks like it might have honeywell switches.

The "mini" uses ps2 over SDL, so it is easy to use on modern pcs.

[grave00]

The mini is RJ 45 though. Not as desirable I'd think. Good shape though. The boards I bought were in bulk. He had 2 like the picture, I can post the other but the keycaps were more standard. Couple of others were interesting but missing cases. I picked up the ones he was willing to sell as a lot.

One I got is same as this:


http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... t1030.html

[mintberryminuscrunch]

... Couple of others were interesting...

dips on the ssk

[7bit]

Nice find!

Happy APL-hacking.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Interesting … One thing that I've never seen come up anywhere is a serial to USB mouse adapter. It would be a shame to use that Accodata Keycat without having the trackball connected up. I guess serial mice are still supported in Windows with a serial to USB adapter?

It would also be a tragic waste to harvest such an awesome board for the blue Alps switches. Of course, you gain a true ISO alphanumeric area (unheard of for vintage Alps, they're all bigass enter), but the layout is just borked in lots of other interesting ways.

Also, I see that the board depicted has scroll wheels – someone somewhere must know enough about them to be able to write the wiki page on them. They existed long before Microsoft thought of putting one on a mouse, but they had died out by that point. Also, the board has both X and Y wheels, which on mice is exceptionally rare – you just have rubbish tilt wheels that make it impossible to actually click the wheel.

[HaaTa]

*HaaTa has interest in the above keyboard*

If a converter is needed, I can make one

[rodtang]

The mini is RJ 45 though. Not as desirable I'd think.

SSKs are always desirable, if you really don't want it you could sell it to me for cheap.

[grave00]

I think he wanted about $160 for the SSK as he wanted to sell it as a piece with the IBM pc. I think I have a pic of that as well. I'll post some more pictures here of the other keyboards when I get them organized. I'll probably see if I can get the rest of it soon, or a large part of it.

[mintberryminuscrunch]

lol, there is actually a ssk?

[rodtang]

lol, there is actually a ssk?

I don't know much else keyboard related that people might call "IBM mini".

Post more pictures and save as many of the keyboard!

[kps]

That's a Tektronix 4114 or 4116. (Scrapping it for keys would be a boneheaded move.)

Edit: The APL keycaps were a $750 option. And you thought SP were expensive?

Tektronix 4114B

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[grave00]

Interesting … One thing that I've never seen come up anywhere is a serial to USB mouse adapter. It would be a shame to use that Accodata Keycat without having the trackball connected up. I guess serial mice are still supported in Windows with a serial to USB adapter?

It would also be a tragic waste to harvest such an awesome board for the blue Alps switches. Of course, you gain a true ISO alphanumeric area (unheard of for vintage Alps, they're all bigass enter), but the layout is just borked in lots of other interesting ways.

Also, I see that the board depicted has scroll wheels – someone somewhere must know enough about them to be able to write the wiki page on them. They existed long before Microsoft thought of putting one on a mouse, but they had died out by that point. Also, the board has both X and Y wheels, which on mice is exceptionally rare – you just have rubbish tilt wheels that make it impossible to actually click the wheel.

I took the Keycat apart and cleaned it. Actually the first keyboard I've actually taken apart. The big keys were too hard to reassemble with the case on. I also used a DB9F to DB25M adapter on it and that does work on the trackball. I was pretty pleased about that. I'd been thinking a DB25 Gender Changer was more likely as mine appears to be not like webwits.