killer deal. seller has 50 of them too.
edit: seller is meh. the keyboard does NOT come with a cable...but the cable is conveniently for sale by them as a separate auction.
What switch is that?
I just messaged the seller to see what he'd be willing to do price wise on 30 of these with cables. I'm not sure we'd save too much if I bought that many though since reshipping them may be to expensive. If he's will to let them go for like $15 w/cables + shipping it might be very worthwhile.Might be cool for pink or orange, not sure I'd be in for blacks.
Might be cool for pink or orange, not sure I'd be in for blacks.
I think that the switch type needs to be determined before the group buy can be organized.
I searched the model number 725-3770 and there are two geekhack hits and one kbdmania hit - all say that these are pink sliders.
It looks like this could be a very interesting group buy if the seller can confirm the switch type - I can't imagine how rare it is to have a large quantity of NIB pink ALPs boards available at a very reasonable price.
If they're pink switches, I'm down for one for sure
How could I pass up some Wang Labs kit? They're locally grown.
So I made an offer for two boards and two cables. The seller agreed, they're on their way. Sweet! I've got a nice set of doubleshots on a dead Northy to swap onto one of these, if they aren't doubleshot already.
Who doesn't enjoy a big Pink Wang ... or two at once?
Well if you wanted pinks, you will be disappointed. The seller confirmed that ALL of these have black alps :\I was afraid of that when I found this old message (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?10622-Wang-724-NIB....-Pink!&p=198630&viewfull=1#post198630) in a geekhack forum search this morning.
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I was waiting for the "wang" joke to surface. What an unfortunate company name, lol.I wasn't the first, hah! Hey, it was the dude's name, what are you gonna do? He was kinda torqued at IBM over mistreatment over a patent so felt very competitive with them. He was just absorbed into his vertical market and didn't see the general purpose PC coming until it was too late. We had an old Wang system at work years ago, so we could fire it up to get old unique documents if needed. Built like a tank it was.
Side note: That 65g is 11 US nickels and 4 US pennies. A US penny weighs 2.5g -- half a nickel, so you can get higher precision. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Ripometer HD! **fanfare**
20 Nickels? $1.00.
The RipOmeter? Priceless.
On 08/22/2011 01:20 PM, (Seller) wrote:
> Hi, The cord you sent back is perfectly fine. Works and oms out just
> fine. Did you send the right one?
Hi (Seller),
No kidding! Haha. Yes, I sent the right one.
So, I have a guess about what's going on...
Here's a diagram of the pinout of the good and bad cables.
The good cable ties pin "D" (on the modular plug in the diagram) to pin 4 on the AT plug. The bad cable ties pin "D" to the shield of the AT plug. That's the only difference between them.
What's AT pin 4? It's ground. The AT standard requires pin 4 be GND:
http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2protocol/
My guess is that the AT standard does not specify what the shield is connected to -- it could be unconnected or it could be grounded at the host.
If an AT/PS2 port grounds its shield, then the good and bad cables will behave the same, they will both work. This must be what you see.
If an AT/PS2 port leaves its shield unconnected, then the bad cable does not provide any ground pin to the keyboard. This must be what I see. Sure enough, the PS2 port I tested with does not ground its shield.
Also I found a PS2-to-AT adapter (not one of yours) that does not connect the AT shield to the PS2 shield. In practice there seems to be no guarantee that real hardware connects the shield.
The only pinout that works with all AT/PS2 ports is the "OK cable" pinout in the diagram. Would you please send me another one of those?
Thanks,
LOL It was is the factory end. RJ was wired correctly. Strange it worked in all my computers. I will double check with ohm meter in the future for these. ... yes your findings are correct.
I'll send out the replacement cable tomorrow.
The Wang 724 is seriously an unsung hero around here.. Nearly perfect keyboard, made back when keyboards MEANT somethng.
$20+Shipping is a killer deal. If there are any left, I'll be making an offer for 3 of them this friday.
I love pounding on some Cherrys with my Wang.
ALPS. Damn, I was hoping for Cherrys.The trademark itlnstln wit has been missed...
I love pounding on some Cherrys with my Wang.
This blue cube http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BSJFJS or these Belkin adaptors should work http://www.ebay.com/itm/260810806320?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649. I have both, the work well with my IBM Model M keyboards.
Noticed something else on these. The microcontroller is not soldered to the PCB, it's socketed. You could perhaps extract it and read out the firmware. Then you could modify it to light up the dark LEDs, or to make the 8 nonstandard buttons send unique key codes instead of Alt-Fx combinations, or fix the key assignment on the nav cluster to be more standard. Next time I'll check what kind of uC it is.
This blue cube http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BSJFJS or these Belkin adaptors should work http://www.ebay.com/itm/260810806320?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649. I have both, the work well with my IBM Model M keyboards.
the Belkin F5U119vE1, .... On the minus side it has "reset" issues, where the keyboard periodically does not respond and the LEDs blink. It goes out for perhaps 1 second every half hour? Not enough to be a real problem for regular office work. But I might look for a different one next time.