Author Topic: Is this keyboard PC compatible? (Read 3342 times)

microsoft windows · « **on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 17:46:38 »

It's looking like a Unicomp Terminal emulator keyboard, but it's hard to tell what the plug is. It's also got no lock lights. Any thoughts?

Pylon · « **Reply #1 on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 18:32:49 »

Cross out international there and put "in basement". In fact, I read it like that at first.

msiegel · « **Reply #2 on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 18:35:48 »

:lol:

well, the connector is small enough to be PS/2; can't see the pins though :-/

ch_123 · « **Reply #3 on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 18:40:45 »

Odd. 5250-style layout. Lack of lock lights suggests that it's a real terminal keyboard. PS/2 plug suggests that it's meant to be plugged into a PC. for use as an emulator. I think the latter is more telling, given that 5250 terminal keyboards used RJ-45 style plugs.

quadibloc · « **Reply #4 on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 18:47:49 »

And it looks like a genuine IBM keyboard but with someone else's sticker on it. That isn't certain, of course, but I think it's highly worth going for.

ch_123 · « **Reply #5 on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 18:50:05 »

It's a Unicomp OEM board. You can tell by the square in the left hand corner.

There's a chain of "Health Food" (read "Powdered Snake Oil") stores over here and in the UK called Holland and Barrett that use these keyboards on their tills, with a different OEM. No idea what connector they use, or what they are connected to.

Pylon · « **Reply #6 on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 18:59:05 »

Hmm, I thought I saw a this rebranded Lexmark/Unicomp over at Christmas Tree Shops the other day:

ch_123 · « **Reply #7 on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 19:02:13 »

I think these have been spied before on eBay. I have vague memories suggesting that they were rubber dome Unicomp boards, though Im not sure.

Pylon · « **Reply #8 on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 19:06:24 »

I didn't get to hear the clerk type on it though.

ch_123 · « **Reply #9 on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 19:12:01 »

It's a Unicomp board (you can tell from the White backspace). The F keys having shifted values (i.e. F1 and F13) suggest a 102-key 3270/5250 board, but it's a 101-key, and doesn't seem to have the usual terminal keys, so it's some custom variant of the Customizer.

msiegel · « **Reply #10 on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 19:18:54 »

Quote from: ch_123;282606

you can tell from the White backspace.

good eye!

i must have forgotten to take my powdered snake oil today

ch_123 · « **Reply #11 on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 19:20:41 »

Given that it's 1.30AM over here, you can tell that I snorted the whole bucket.

microsoft windows · « **Reply #12 on:** Fri, 21 January 2011, 21:05:42 »

Do you think this Computerlab branded Unicomp's a rubber dome? There's not much of a way to tell from the picture. I guess it'll have to be a gamble if I buy it.

I just noticed that it may have a white backspace. Kind of hard to tell from the picture, but I'm thinking more and more that it's a Unicomp.

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