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Offline MythicalWagyu

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Re: Fantastic Model M deal - requires massive Geek cooperation
« Reply #100 on: Fri, 06 February 2015, 17:54:31 »
Quote from: daerid on Thu, 05 February 2015, 01:03:08
Just got mine today. The layout is definitely gonna take some getting used to, especially dat left shift
Yeah it's throwing me off a bit,and the numpad screws me up too - I keep hitting numlock instead of "/". I am definitely enjoying my first buckling spring experience however  ^-^
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Re: Fantastic Model M deal - requires massive Geek cooperation
« Reply #101 on: Fri, 06 February 2015, 22:41:26 »
Quote from: MythicalWagyu on Fri, 06 February 2015, 17:54:31
Quote from: daerid on Thu, 05 February 2015, 01:03:08
Just got mine today. The layout is definitely gonna take some getting used to, especially dat left shift
Yeah it's throwing me off a bit,and the numpad screws me up too - I keep hitting numlock instead of "/". I am definitely enjoying my first buckling spring experience however  ^-^

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Re: Fantastic Model M deal - requires massive Geek cooperation
« Reply #102 on: Fri, 06 February 2015, 23:17:49 »
Got mine working, was amusing. Loving the buckling spring feel. Will compare to MX Greens once my QF TKL comes in. For now, it's definitely more fun to type on than my MX Browns and MX Blues. My RF101 at work is fun and quieter, but the M is really enjoyable at home.
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Re: Fantastic Model M deal - requires massive Geek cooperation
« Reply #103 on: Fri, 06 February 2015, 23:36:17 »
Quote from: rowdy on Thu, 05 February 2015, 03:14:40
Quote from: daerid on Thu, 05 February 2015, 01:03:08
Just got mine today. The layout is definitely gonna take some getting used to, especially dat left shift

It is possible ti ANSIfy these.

Definitely could change the layout to be ANSI during a bolt mod, but you might have to do the remapping in software rather than hardware.  The key that I also have the biggest issue with is the blank key between Left Shift and Z, which is the <> key in ISO.  Luckily for that one, if you were to do a bolt mod, the regular ANSI Left Shift Key uses the normal shift spring there, and the <> slot would just have a stabilizer there, so no remapping would be required for Left Shift at least.

First thing I thought of for remapping would be to use a Soarer's Converter, but it turns out that these are not PS/2 backwards compatible over the stock USB cable.  The controller actually has several ports on it, so one of those may output PS/2, which would be supported by a Soarer's converter.  Will be looking into seeing if I can figure anything out about the other ports hopefully tomorrow.

Pretty optimistic that one of them will output PS/2 since Unicomp does make a PC122 key PS/2 keyboard (though could just be that they use a different controller on those):
http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/PC122/UB40T56

If one of the 4 pin headers turns out to be PS/2, you could just move the original USB cable to that and wire a USB female adapter on the USB end to work with it, or use a Soarer's converter like these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/301452854832 , or just solder a USB female cable segment or cut the original cable USB end and solder directly to a Teensy, or just solder directly to the controller.
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