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Title: Unicomp 122-key Terminal Emulators
Post by: xwhatsit on Tue, 09 August 2011, 02:17:04

Saw this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Unicomp-122-Key-PS2-Terminal-Emulator-Keyboard-UNI0T52-/370526813292?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item56451e7c6c#ht_2042wt_883

$42 buy now or make an offer. Seems quite reasonable to me. Seller claims they're brand new, and has 11 available.

They're PS/2, and by the looks of the Windows key on the left-most 2x5 group, this is the emulator model that sends PC-friendly scancodes for every key. The drawback of this is that F13 sends Shift-F1, for instance; the plus side is that it will work without any fiddling. Part number is UNI0T52, if anybody can confirm.

Title: Unicomp 122-key Terminal Emulators
Post by: twn2 on Tue, 09 August 2011, 02:50:40

I think someone here bought this and confirmed that this is not the buckling spring.

Title: Unicomp 122-key Terminal Emulators
Post by: xwhatsit on Tue, 09 August 2011, 03:26:42

Oooh, guts. I did a quick google for the UNI0T52 part number and it turned up a few `Clicky' links so assumed it was buckling spring. Poos if you bought it.

Title: Unicomp 122-key Terminal Emulators
Post by: REVENGE on Tue, 09 August 2011, 04:43:24

It is not a bs (or maybe it is *bs*). Confirmed by me and theferenc.

Title: Unicomp 122-key Terminal Emulators
Post by: theferenc on Tue, 09 August 2011, 11:10:25

Correct, not BS. But it does feel pretty nice, honestly. And it can be converted (mostly).

As soon as I have a place to ship one, I'm going to see about using its controller in an older, true terminal keyboard. I would think a controller swap would work much better than a cable swap, after all.