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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Hanno on Wed, 19 April 2023, 16:29:09

Title: 122key 1397000 USB woes
Post by: Hanno on Wed, 19 April 2023, 16:29:09

Hey there, I have an old IBM 1397000 terminal emulator board that I recently pulled out of storage that I've been trying to get it to work on my windows machine.
My previous build's motherboard had a PS/2 port, and with some old 122 dlls I had managed back then to get all f-13 to f-24 keys and the sidebar keys outputting scancodes, which I then rebound using ahk/swiftkey.

Now, however, my new rig has no PS/2, and while the usb converter I have seems to work... Not the top row or sidebar. It only does only up to f12, and maybe a few other keys smattering here or there. They seem to output no scancodes at all when pressed. Is this a problem with the converter? Or something else? I'm kinda stumped on how to proceed.

Any help would be appreciated!

Title: Re: 122key 1397000 USB woes
Post by: Tactile on Wed, 19 April 2023, 21:21:05

 This info (https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=27681) makes it seem like you'll need Soarer's Convertor (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=17458.0).

Title: Re: 122key 1397000 USB woes
Post by: Hanno on Wed, 19 April 2023, 22:52:09

Thank you, I'll pick up a Soarer's converter and report back

Title: Re: 122key 1397000 USB woes
Post by: Hanno on Tue, 25 April 2023, 02:22:43

I'd like to report  the PS/2 Soarer's converter I bought from orihalcon on ebay worked a treat.

I was able to remap all extra keys with the help of the included documentation in the 1.10 software, utilizing scaswr.bat

Thank you for your help!

(https://i.imgur.com/QdXs7oK.png)