Next choice after blue cube?

[Daniel Beardsmore]

I just purchased a couple of "blue cube" adapters from Insight – I can only presume that it has the same magic IC inside as the ones you all have, as blue cubes are unfortunately an unbranded product.

Sadly, no go. My Tulip ATK 030244 complicated blue ALPS keyboard is just too fussy. It doesn't work with the adapter on my XP PC or Windows 7 laptop. The LEDs all flash as it starts up, then no response from any keys. It doesn't work on my Motorola StarMax either, which is a Mac clone with a PS/2 port (this is using just the PC/AT to PS/2 adapter) -- I think that gets the same response, LEDs flash, then no worky.

Stupid ALPS keyboard. Should have kept the Monterey ...

(It does work on a PC with a PS/2 port, via the PC/AT to PS/2 adapter though.)

[Input Nirvana]

Interesting, sorry for the hassle though. The key would be to knowing why it doesn't work, dunno how to do that.

I use this: http://piengineering.com/ymouse/whym271.php

If I could test it for you I would.

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[Daniel Beardsmore]

Wow, that Y Mouse one is a bit pricey! I'll try a Belkin one though, a little less expensive and no need to have it shipped from the States. Thanks for the tip. Why do I get the feeling though that I'm going to be collecting useless adapters for this haughty little ALPS?

I'm typing this with my dusty old Packard Bell rubberdome via the blue cube. Exceptionally firm for a 17-year-old dome keyboard, stiff like a brand new ALPS. Very precise tactile action. Good keyboard, but not a patch on my blue ALPS though, nor on brown Cherries. When I type "ear" I keep getting "aer" though ... some sort of rollover problem I guess.

Pointless ramble: if you take a BBC Micro keyboard, and depress a key slightly to take up the play in the switch, and then press hard, there's all but no sound. It's a linear mechanical with genuinely silent bottoming out (eat your heart out Das S). (Small print: may only apply to the type of BBC Micro keyboard I'm used to, as different manufacturers used several different switch types.)

[ch_123]

The Blue Cube doesn't work with my SGI AT 101, but the Belkin does.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

I thought you were Ripster and wondered how you'd been able to reply back so quickly. I'm starting to think that I need a shrink more than a PS/2 adapter.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

BTW, do you all mean the dual keyboard and mouse adapter:



or the little mini adapter?

[Input Nirvana]

Wow, that Y Mouse one is a bit pricey! I'll try a Belkin one though, a little less expensive and no need to have it shipped from the States. Thanks for the tip. Why do I get the feeling though that I'm going to be collecting useless adapters for this haughty little ALPS?

I've got 3 of them. One for my Datahand, one for my Kinesis Contoured split mod, and another for a possible future Datahand project keyboard.

Yea, I didn't want to start getting a bunch of converters that don't work. Oh, that's right, I already have a box of those.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

It works perfectly with the Belkin (F5U119eaE), which just arrived today.

Thanks!