Hi there
I was just wondering if IBM ever made a British ISO Model M Space Saving Keyboard. And if so what was the Model No.? If not, is there any way to convert the ANSI model to ISO.
On another note, if I plug a US ANSI keyboard into a system but say it is a UK layout in control panel, will it recognise as a British keyboard and work like one, with " on the 2 key, etc.
Any help is appreciated,
TheSven
Wow, just read your thread, skcheng! Interesting pictures and information. I have two SSKs, one from '88 and one from '91. The '91 model is much nicer, as it has these thin dark blue/violet legends and a beige frame.That's the kind of thing I'm looking for, don't suppose you could tell me the part no.?
I also saw an industrial SSK not long ago.
[EDIT] This one (image from tinnie):Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/Ei4Od7y.jpg)
Wow, just read your thread, skcheng! Interesting pictures and information. I have two SSKs, one from '88 and one from '91. The '91 model is much nicer, as it has these thin dark blue/violet legends and a beige frame.That's the kind of thing I'm looking for, don't suppose you could tell me the part no.?
I also saw an industrial SSK not long ago.
[EDIT] This one (image from tinnie):
Thank you very much :). Reason is, Unicomp do a replace thing and if I could get the model no., I could buy one from there. I love the TKL form factor and my UK layout. So it's that or find someone selling one? But if the OS can recognise a US keyboard as a UK keyboard when I tell it to, it shouldn't matter too much.Wow, just read your thread, skcheng! Interesting pictures and information. I have two SSKs, one from '88 and one from '91. The '91 model is much nicer, as it has these thin dark blue/violet legends and a beige frame.That's the kind of thing I'm looking for, don't suppose you could tell me the part no.?
I also saw an industrial SSK not long ago.
[EDIT] This one (image from tinnie):
I can do... ;DShow Image(http://deskthority.net/resources/iso-industrial-ssk/14357)
I would re-iterate that is completely possible to change from ANSI to ISO and ISO to ANSI by moving a few hammers, but yes you will have to be doing a bolt-mod at the same time.Yes, I tried that just now :)
As long as you select UK layout in your computer you will get the proper char when you press the key, you can test this by changing the layout setting of your current keyboard to something else and typing away.
I used to change co-workers layouts to Dvorak to drive them nuts, then go to their computers and show them that it 'works just fine' by touch typing Dvorak.
Wow, just read your thread, skcheng! Interesting pictures and information. I have two SSKs, one from '88 and one from '91. The '91 model is much nicer, as it has these thin dark blue/violet legends and a beige frame.That's the kind of thing I'm looking for, don't suppose you could tell me the part no.?
I also saw an industrial SSK not long ago.
[EDIT] This one (image from tinnie):
I can do... ;DShow Image(http://deskthority.net/resources/iso-industrial-ssk/14357)
Wow, just read your thread, skcheng! Interesting pictures and information. I have two SSKs, one from '88 and one from '91. The '91 model is much nicer, as it has these thin dark blue/violet legends and a beige frame.That's the kind of thing I'm looking for, don't suppose you could tell me the part no.?
I also saw an industrial SSK not long ago.
[EDIT] This one (image from tinnie):
I can do... ;DShow Image(http://deskthority.net/resources/iso-industrial-ssk/14357)
I'm getting tired of asking when to see some more pictures :)
On another note, if I plug a US ANSI keyboard into a system but say it is a UK layout in control panel, will it recognise as a British keyboard and work like one, with " on the 2 key, etc.
Not correctly, no. ANSI has the least number of keys (101/104/87) compared with ISO (102/105/88) and JIS (105/108/91) so it is fundamentally impossible to use an ANSI keyboard as ISO: one key from the keyboard won't exist. As I recall, you lose backslash if you do that, so you'll need to remap the keyboard to optimise the layout for the keys you actually want.I never use backslash anyway :P