Hello everyone! I have just jumped into the unknown mechanical keyboard world a couple of days ago and I've been anxious to get myself one of them, I have been using chicklets for far too long...
Among countless brands, Filco's, Ducky's and the like, I looked up info on the classic IBM Model M (I actually had one variant of it when I was a child, my first keyboard... I would love to get a time machine and steal it from my puny 5 year old hands), which gave me the idea to grab a flashlight and dive into my girlfriend's house attic, where her father throws out all kinds of random tech stuff that are he doesn't use anymore.
To my amazement, I found this beauty, a Chicony KB-5182 (ISO, DE layout):
It looks pretty dirty and has a few scratches here and there, but in general looks to be in great shape for such a mistreated piece of tech. Seems like it sports Cherry MX Blacks, I tried googling some info on it but only found stuff about the ANSI KB-5181 model which is a bit "mysterious" about what kind of switches it uses, some Chicony keyboards have "fake" and "real" MX Blues, I would love to find out some more info about this particular model I found.
Other than that, my main question about it concerns my confusion on "convert to USB" options, I would love to give this keyboard a spin, but how to? Do I need adaptors from DIN-5 port to PS/2 to USB, and if so which ones can perform the task? Thanks in advance for anyone who helps me out with this.
And to end my first post and probably reveal my complete noobness on this subject, what is this thingy for?
Kind regards from Germany