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Offline ed_avis

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Unicomp M122 with PS/2 connector, $41.09 incuding US shipping
« on: Sun, 12 April 2020, 12:54:20 »
https://www.ebay.com/itm/164100488366

Sold as untested, but very likely to be still working.  Looks like a regular PS/2 connector, so hopefully no exotic converter needed.

Offline Rayndalf

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Re: Unicomp M122 with PS/2 connector, $41.09 incuding US shipping
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 04 May 2020, 22:38:13 »
Not sure why this auction seemed to have been ended by the seller, but if you look closely one of the pins on the PS/2 plug broke off, which would have been a pretty easy fix.

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Re: Unicomp M122 with PS/2 connector, $41.09 incuding US shipping
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 05 May 2020, 07:51:43 »
I don't think they broke. The 2 absent pins are the 2 that don't do anything anyway.
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Re: Unicomp M122 with PS/2 connector, $41.09 incuding US shipping
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 05 May 2020, 16:09:37 »
Its funny I see so many more DIN 5 connectors than mini DIN 6 in my collection, I tend to forget PS/2 had frequently unused pins.
Either PS/2 had a somewhat short run as the primary keyboard connector before rubber domes became the thing, or all the PS/2 mechanical keyboards are still being used so I can't buy them cheaply.

It makes sense though, pins that aren't there can't bend or break off :p

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Re: Unicomp M122 with PS/2 connector, $41.09 incuding US shipping
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 05 May 2020, 16:40:50 »
That spare pin on the AT connector occasionally/rarely saw action as the "reset" connection but that was the exception rather than the rule.

There are millions of rubber dome PS/2 (mini-DIN6) out there but I think that mechanical switches were fading out as PS/2 was coming in.

Of course, IBM provided Model Ms with PS/2 systems from day one in the late 1990s but it took a while for inertia to wash through the industry.
"We are on the precipice of signing an agreement to advance talks with Iran that preserves the good parts of former President Barack Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) while amplifying its flaws.
Mr. Obama came to an agreement that did not involve America’s most precious treasure, the lives and limbs of our soldiers.  The 1.7 billion dollars of frozen Iranian assets released by Obama pales in comparison to the 300 billion being floated as a rebuilding fund.
So far, speculation that Iran will be free in the future to continue its nuclear program is the opposite of Trump’s stated goal for the war and in direct opposition to what Mr. Obama negotiated.
"
- Bill Roberts 2026-06-17