Author Topic: Need AT connector to USB or At connector to PS/2 and a newbie's keyboard journey  (Read 1212 times)

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Offline codek

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Any that you like?  I know some don't work well with multiple keyboards, etc.

I just got a Siig Minitouch with Montereys!  I had a Siig Minitouch and love the alps except need a quieter one for work.  Any recs?

At work, I'm using a leopolds with browns which are ok but better than model m's.  Model m's are just too much effort now especially with unicomp caps.  Those caps are not the same!  They take more force!

Offline demik

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http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-F2N017-Keyboard-Adapter-MiniDin6/dp/B00000J1UB that?

and how does the cap take more force? caps are the same.. if anything, the newer spring takes more force.
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There has been a lot of discussion here about adapters/connectors.

I have plugged in many keyboards, using many adapters/connectors, which have worked properly 95%+ of the time even using the lowest/cheapest plugs/models available, if I did a cold hard re-boot in between.

Really, the only significant problems I have experienced have been when I was plugging into a laptop not using line current (ie battery power only), so that there was some question or doubt about pure motivating force available to the external keyboard itself.

But I am not an electrical engineer, by any means.
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There has been a lot of discussion here about adapters/connectors.

I have plugged in many keyboards, using many adapters/connectors, which have worked properly 95%+ of the time even using the lowest/cheapest plugs/models available, if I did a cold hard re-boot in between.

Really, the only significant problems I have experienced have been when I was plugging into a laptop not using line current (ie battery power only), so that there was some question or doubt about pure motivating force available to the external keyboard itself.

But I am not an electrical engineer, by any means.


If that's your success rate, you clearly don't play games. But yeah, plenty of wikis on this. All AT -> PS/2 plugs are identical in function. For those I just got a random set of 10 on ebay.
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