It's always funny when you go looking for photos of something on the net and the first result is one your own :D It was a very nice keyboard but the missing key always bugged me. I was fortunate enough to find one with all of its keys though, so sold this one - and now I'm trying to get rid of it again! But this time with its matching PS/55.Show Image(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vmcAAOSwRkxbQFT-/s-l1600.jpg)
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/173398319389
No custom controller required by the way, it's just regular PS/2 and works fine on modern PCs with an active USB converter. I used the keyless one as my main keyboard for a few months before the placement of the @ key finally got to me.
It's always funny when you go looking for photos of something on the net and the first result is one your own :D It was a very nice keyboard but the missing key always bugged me. I was fortunate enough to find one with all of its keys though, so sold this one - and now I'm trying to get rid of it again! But this time with its matching PS/55.Show Image(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vmcAAOSwRkxbQFT-/s-l1600.jpg)
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/173398319389
No custom controller required by the way, it's just regular PS/2 and works fine on modern PCs with an active USB converter. I used the keyless one as my main keyboard for a few months before the placement of the @ key finally got to me.
Oh my, just gorgeous. Such a great game too. :)
That's a wonderful PS/2! Makes me hope and pray that our 30-286 will be in good shape when I have a chance to fire it back up. It had that same monitor and we had upgraded the cpu to a 486slc and 4mb of ram so it could run windows 3.1. It was super-sweet and maxed out.
Oh running Doom would probably not even fly as I think wolfenstein didn't even run very well. But we finally could multi-task on the machine. And with an ISA network card, it was connected to all the others too. Fantastic how far it upgraded. I'm glad we bought enough RAM to max it out. Finding that today would be pretty tough and expensive.
Very cool find ander! How do the ALPS plate spring switches feel? Never got the pleasure of trying myself yet, I've been falling further down the ALPS rabbit hole lately so these are particularly interesting to me.
I think the video card was just too weak in the 30-286. Remember, all the other buses are the same 8-16bit versus 32-bit so a lot of slowness happens outside of the processor.Oh running Doom would probably not even fly as I think wolfenstein didn't even run very well. But we finally could multi-task on the machine. And with an ISA network card, it was connected to all the others too. Fantastic how far it upgraded. I'm glad we bought enough RAM to max it out. Finding that today would be pretty tough and expensive.
No no, it runs! I've got a 486SLC in my Amstrad Mega PC and finished the whole game using it.
I think the video card was just too weak in the 30-286. Remember, all the other buses are the same 8-16bit versus 32-bit so a lot of slowness happens outside of the processor.Oh running Doom would probably not even fly as I think wolfenstein didn't even run very well. But we finally could multi-task on the machine. And with an ISA network card, it was connected to all the others too. Fantastic how far it upgraded. I'm glad we bought enough RAM to max it out. Finding that today would be pretty tough and expensive.
No no, it runs! I've got a 486SLC in my Amstrad Mega PC and finished the whole game using it.
PS/2s have a VGA connector on the motherboard, and I don't think any video cards were made for them - the PS/55 however is a different story. There are something like 4 Japanese-character-specific VGA MCA cards for it, I've got a few of them.I never tried it, but I'm sure an ISA video card would have worked as most everything we put in the 30-286 seemed to work. Unfortunately, we ran out of slots--external floppy board, SCSI hardcard for more hd space, and then lan NIC and it was full. :(
It's always funny when you go looking for photos of something on the net and the first result is one your own :D It was a very nice keyboard but the missing key always bugged me. I was fortunate enough to find one with all of its keys though, so sold this one - and now I'm trying to get rid of it again! But this time with its matching PS/55.
Very cool find ander! How do the ALPS plate spring switches feel?
They feel amazing, second only to Alps buckling springs in a TeraDrive keyboard...