skip to the YEEEEESH, GET TO THE FREAKIN' POINT, STARHAWK! text in bright red below... also, you have my sympathies. For those who prefer a bit of meaningful background, read on from here 
Hey -- I was raised to be respectful of others. I'm tryin' here!I have two Compaq Portable III systems, courtesy of a wonderful friend who sent them to me. One arrived nearly intact, and needed only a keyboard swap with the second to be power-up-able... however, it needs a bit of further work before it will /boot/. tl;dr, the BIOS Setup utility is not built into the BIOS ROM but rather on a floppy disk... and it configures options also not in the ROM but in a battery-backed RAM/RTC chip (Dallas Semi DS1287). I need to create the floppy (I have the image) and do a battery hack for the chip. The other system, tho, is missing parts -- most notably the drives, which are a bit weird and mount to a removable bay mechanism that is roughly analogous to the modern laptop hard drive caddy, which is unfortunately also missing. (I swapped a few chassis parts over to the more complete one as well.) I'm probably not going to try and restore this one... the drives are uhm rather odd, especially the 5.25" floppy drive. That drive is way shorter than any other such drive I've literally (not figuratively, and I know the difference!) ever seen. It's almost square!
*ahem*
So I'm reusing parts elsewhere. I may or may not wind up rebuilding that system with more modern parts simply to be obnoxious in coffee houses (LOL)... this is absolutely not the subject, however, of this particular thread.
Rather, I'm reusing the keyboard in a very different machine, one I'm building. I'd prefer for the moment not to get into the particular design of the system because it's an extremely unique concept -- at least as near as I can tell, there's only one example of anything close, and it's a very recent build that appeared fairly recently. I'm a bit suspicious of it TBH, since I've been thinking about this for a fairly long time (several months) and I've told very few about it, and then only recently... so I kind of wonder, given the timing. Meh :-/
YEEEEESH, GET TO THE FREAKIN' POINT, STARHAWK!
But... the keyboard in question (again, a Compaq Portable III keyboard) presently doesn't work -- its cable is in absolutely horrible shape, and I rather suspect that's the only real problem with it. Unfortunately, in the process of prying it open (no screws on the external housing, only clips -- color me pleasantly surprised, indeed!), I managed to knock the "-" keycap off the numpad... oh dear
I do hate being so clumsy. Photos of the aftermath of my epic fail have been attached.I have few resources right now to fix it... I don't have either of the prongs that constituted a mounting system; both of them are somewhere on my carpet... alas, the carpet is the same color, so I'm not going to even bother trying. I have various adhesives and hand tools (a healthy stash of Dollar Tree super glue gel comes to mind first, and my battery drill and a corded Dremel that was a gift from a relative... there are others. Ask me for a full list or about specific adhesives/tools/etc, although I'll mention, as I should -- the drill and Dremel are my *only* power tools, although I have a ton of bits/etc for both...).
Advice requested!
...also, f someone wants to just send me a replacement keycap, I *should* have the ability to reimburse you for postage (don't want to get into it, but I have a super tight monthly budget, and right now my bank balance is us$1.99... and I'm just thankful it's neither zero nor negative) first thing Monday morning when a refund from Paypal (from a very necessary transaction that wound up being duplicated accidentally) finally lands. I'm in NC, USA... in-country offers only, please, strictly as a matter of economy!
don't have needle files or (right now) the ability to buy 'em. Early October, probably... if I can get em at the local Walmart.