To make that keyboard worthwhile, you'd probably have to get a sheet of high quality rubber domes, cut it, and fit it on there... because... those keyboards have TERRIBLE rubber membranes.Man. No way I'd go to that much trouble. I have one of these. It's not a great keyboard but it's small and has a trackpoint which counts for a lot with me. I would not recommend it for a daily driver, and maybe should have said that in my original post, but I can use it occasionally without undo pain.
I even have the exact year when IBM used lesser quality membranes for their keyboards.
Although that is a nice chassis for a keyboard.
Hate to play semantics with you, but the rubber domes are not the membrane. They are the rubber domes.
The membrane is the mylar sheets...such as what you find in a Model M.
Hate to play semantics with you, but the rubber domes are not the membrane. They are the rubber domes.This conversation jogged my memory. I found a link to a mod somebody had done a while back on one of these. Basically they put a small slit the side/edge of the domes on one of these. Found it, here is a link to the page showing the cut (http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tt.rim.or.jp%2F~naoz-i%2Fkeyboard%2Fsskii_6_2.html). There are some pictures of it from KBDMania.net including internals here (http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kbdmania.net%2Fxe%2F%3Fmid%3Dphoto%26page%3D36%26document_srl%3D1158490).
The membrane is the mylar sheets...such as what you find in a Model M.
Hate to play semantics with you, but the rubber domes are not the membrane. They are the rubber domes.
The membrane is the mylar sheets...such as what you find in a Model M.
It's definitely not worth $75 for some old LCD and a rubber dome keyboard.
[strike]Are you sure this one flips down? The rack mount drawer types tend to have a laptop-like LCD which is thinner...this looks like it permanently sticks out of the rack without moving.[/strike]
Nevermind, monitor goes backwards on this one.
Eesh, so it does go forwards...weird. That looks taller than 1U. I can only presume it's rather old for it to have such a chunky monitor.I'd measure one if I could but don't have access to one of these any more. I'm pretty sure these were 1U but maybe I'm remembering wrong. 1U is 1.75" or less. When folded the high point is at the hinge point which might be that. And yes these have been around for years so the monitor is a little chunky but very solidly built. I haven't seen the Belkin. I'm sure the technology has gotten a lot better since this IBM one came out. But it's not apples to apples since I'm bet good money you're not going to find the Belkin for $75 shipped and it likely won't have a trackpoint either - more likely a touchpad which while better than nothing is not my preference to say the least.
Belkin has a really sharp one currently, but the keyboard likely sucks.
The rails on the sides in that pic are exactly 1U. That is at least 2U the way the monitor sticks up.
That's what I was thinking, didja. I've worked with 1U stuff and there's no way the overall height on that is 1U.