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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Vukota on Fri, 14 September 2012, 08:09:53
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Does somebody know anythinf about this keyboard? Rubber rome, mechanical?
(http://static.limundoslike.com/originalslika-10528530.jpg)
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No idea, but I'd buy it to find out. :)
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Looks like spherical caps too... intriguing.
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Pull a cap off and show a picture of the bottom of the cap and key stem.
Edit: good find
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I don't have it, but i saw one :)
it looks like this one, but this one is nixdorf http://keyboardporn.com/mx-switch/g80-0801-nixdorf-softclick/ (http://keyboardporn.com/mx-switch/g80-0801-nixdorf-softclick/)
and this one http://keyboardporn.com/mx-switch/nixdorf-softkeys/ (http://keyboardporn.com/mx-switch/nixdorf-softkeys/)
what do you think, are the cherry black on the siemens-nixdorf?
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You should get it, just for the chance at those clear cherry switch upper housings.
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That is pretty much the same board and a great find. If you decide the switches aren't your taste could you possibly proxy it for me?
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It's cherry black clear upper housing :)
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I wonder if those would disperse light better under the key cap and diffuse the spot effect you sometimes get with LEDs. I will probably get lynched for even suggesting that you remove them from the keyboard.
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I wonder if those would disperse light better under the key cap and diffuse the spot effect you sometimes get with LEDs. I will probably get lynched for even suggesting that you remove them from the keyboard.
You'd have to get a really wide viewing angle LED's for it to make a difference at all. Probably something like pi/4 steradians or better.
This is the best switch housing for use with clear keycaps, IMO.
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this keyboard has din-6 connector (not mini din-6 (ps2)). Is is PC compatible? (i don't have adapter so i can not test it)
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If it's a 180-degree Din6 connector, an AT connector, then it should work with a passive adapter to PS2. My SIIG minitouch has that one, and I'm using it with an adapter to PS2 (then another one to USB)
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(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/DIN-6_fp.svg/475px-DIN-6_fp.svg.png)
Mine looks like this. Yours?
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Sure it's 6 pins not 5? If it is 5 pins, then it is hopefully AT and not XT only, then you just need one of these:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/314WTwVEHXL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
or do what I usually do and replace the original cable with a PS/2 cable so I don't have to use adapter anymore.
If it is 6 pins, then it is probably something non standard and I would just part it out unless you want to keep it for collection purpose only.
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It's 6 pin. I have a 5 pin keyboard, and adapter to ps2, so i know it is not a din-5, it's din-6 (not mini din-6)
p.s. I think it't keyboard from Nixdorf Targon, DEC compatible terminal. Is there possibillitu that this keyboard it AT? Or is it XT?
pss amstrad keyboards have DIN-6 and they are XT
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Not sure. If it is XT then you could do something with one of Soarer's converters (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=17458.0) to use it on modern computer. If it's AT and using a different plug, then just replace the cable... either way I think you should open it and have a look. Hopefully the cable connector or solder pads are labeled on the pcb and we can know for sure.
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hello,
i've recently aquired a nixdorf softkeys keyboard. it seems in good condition and i wanted to get it working.. did you manage do make any progress?
thanks
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(http://i.imgur.com/BjWbHMU.jpg)