I extend my greetings to all of you great and wise keyboard aficionados.
If I could perhaps ask for a bit of your collective knowledge about my new Model M (part no 1378207) keyboard that was recently gifted to me. This thing feels comfortable and very right (to me, at least). Since I hadn't operated a real Model M since the early 90s, I was googling around for information about this, and I stumbled upon a few different pinouts for it that included a "reset" line on the DIN connector.
I cannot explain it but this sent me into one of those kinds of curiosity benders that some geeks get at odd hours of the night. All I could find were some vague passive references that said to tie that line to ground to reset the keyboard. None of the adapters that I have are able to use this, and I don't have any computers these days that have a native AT Keyboard port.
Worse yet, and this is probably due to my own impatience and ignorance, very few of the Model M teardowns that I was able to find online had anything close to what my exact keyboard is supposed to have, and the ones that DID gave me the impression that the internals of those keyboards are a bit different to what I have. I was looking to see if this keyboard even uses that "reset" line, and if not, come up with some hardware solution or cool hack that DOES use that line coming from pin 3 (something like popping a speaker behind that empty speaker grill or some fancy backlighting or something like that).
So, in short, what I am asking for is:
- Does this keyboard actually use that reset line?
- If so, would a momentary switch button on the back work for that?
- If this Model M doesn't use that line, has anyone heard of using that pin for something else?
