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geekhack Community => New Members => Topic started by: BradTheGeek on Wed, 30 December 2015, 09:06:08
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Old school geek here with a love for mech keyboards. Hopping in to hopefully get some questions answered and show of planned mods :)
I currently use a thermaltake poseidon Z on my main hom and work desktops but the key press is a little light.
I have a focus fk-2000 plus I found a year or two ago, but have never modified the AT to work with USB.
I just scored a Model M from a goodwill outlet store for about $3. It was very dirty, but after a light cleaning it works great. I do not know the exact model, as the sticker is gone from the bottom. I will be posting somewhere to ask for ID help soon. I plan to mode it with backlighting and fully refurbish it.
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Welcome to Geekhack!
Converting AT to USB is simple - you'll just need an AT to PS/2 adapter, and a PS/2 to USB converter. The former you'll probably find on eBay, for the latter I can recommend one of these: http://techkeys.us/collections/accessories/products/usb-to-ps2-serial-multimode-adapter
It's great how well Model M keyboards clean up, especially considering that many of them are around 30 years old!
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My understanding was that stacking AT -> PS2 -> USB did not work as there was some sort of missing encoding and you needed some active electronics for this. I have the adapters at my shop, I should just try. This thread I think has more, but I can't read it right now :)
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My understanding was that stacking AT -> PS2 -> USB did not work as there was some sort of missing encoding and you needed some active electronics for this. I have the adapters at my shop, I should just try. This thread I think has more, but I can't read it right now :)
AT should be fine, XT is a bit more complicated and requires something like a teensy to make work via USB.