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Title: Model F AT - Yes! It has an F11 key.
Post by: HaaTa on Mon, 28 June 2010, 14:19:47

It's blocked by the enormous + key.

More details later.

Title: Model F AT - Yes! It has an F11 key.
Post by: microsoft windows on Mon, 28 June 2010, 14:58:15

You split the num pad + in 2? You should try some of the Shift's and the Enter's next and see what you get.

Title: Model F AT - Yes! It has an F11 key.
Post by: HaaTa on Mon, 28 June 2010, 18:48:55

Oh, I've already done that :P

Left shift gives you Hiragana/Katakana switch.
Right shift is a mystery key.

Title: Model F AT - Yes! It has an F11 key.
Post by: didjamatic on Mon, 28 June 2010, 23:15:17

Want to sell your + key?  Doubtful, but figured i'd ask.  I might be looking for one of them as well as an Alt key and possibly others for a PC-AT board.

Title: Model F AT - Yes! It has an F11 key.
Post by: quadibloc on Tue, 29 June 2010, 11:11:29

One would have thought that the key in question would have a scan code of 7B, which would be hard to confuse with 56, the scan code of the F11 key.

Title: Model F AT - Yes! It has an F11 key.
Post by: JohnElliott on Tue, 29 June 2010, 14:55:45

You can see the scancodes (http://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/ibm_6450225.html) for all the extra positions on my site. The one under keypad + sends 78, which translates to 57, F11.

Title: Model F AT - Yes! It has an F11 key.
Post by: phoenix on Tue, 29 June 2010, 15:14:40

Quote from: JohnElliott;197703

You can see the scancodes (http://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/ibm_6450225.html) for all the extra positions on my site. The one under keypad + sends 78, which translates to 57, F11.

When I tested mine, the two contacts under the spacebar had no response at all, but I was connecting through a blue cube. Can you confirm that they indeed send scancodes over ps/2? Do you know what USB adapter will send scancodes for those two?

Title: Model F AT - Yes! It has an F11 key.
Post by: JohnElliott on Tue, 29 June 2010, 15:39:45

Quote from: phoenix;197708

Can you confirm that they indeed send scancodes over ps/2?

That's how I tested them: under DOS, with the keyboard plugged into a PS/2-equipped motherboard.

I don't know if any USB adaptor will support those scancodes; it strikes me that one which allowed the translation to be customised would be a useful thing to have.