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[doodab]

ps2 to usb convertor - Google Search

These have been around for donkeys and cost a quid

A lot of second hand model Ms have the old fashioned AT style connectors. You can get a modern one though, a company called unicomp bought the tooling and still makes them.

Customizer 104/105

Edit: or an adapter is 59p

Now can I justify buying another keyboard? Ms doodab is already aghast at the amount of unused stuff lying around the place.
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/scan-...oard-converter

[StopTheEarthIwantToGetOff]

I know the ones you mean, the first proper PC I owned was an IBM PS/2. They are nice. Not sure how practical it is to get working with USB though.

ps2 to usb convertor - Google Search

These have been around for donkeys and cost a quid

[doodab]

Doodab, never had you down as a philistine!!

That keyboard is clever but looks more like a wetdream for a warcraft nerd rather than a functional day to day keyboard. Keys look like something from a DIY kit years ago, apart from the individual display.

Maybe it is me that is the philistine lol

Yes, I do wonder how much use it would actually be in practice. I think it would be handy when switching languages and in programs that have a lot of obscure keyboard shortcuts although like most people I learn the useful ones and forget the others. If it was only £200 I'd probably buy one to find out but not at that price.

[northernladuk]

Nice, but I don't think it would fit with my decor. I'm tempted by one of these:

Optimus Maximus keyboard

Doodab, never had you down as a philistine!!

That keyboard is clever but looks more like a wetdream for a warcraft nerd rather than a functional day to day keyboard. Keys look like something from a DIY kit years ago, apart from the individual display.

Maybe it is me that is the philistine lol

[doodab]

You want one of these babies...

Nice, but I don't think it would fit with my decor. I'm tempted by one of these:

Optimus Maximus keyboard

[northernladuk]

You want one of these babies...

Datamancer.net - Technical Art and Steampunk Contraptions

[doodab]

Well, I now have a Filco Majestouch 2 with the brown (not clicky) Cherry MX switches in. I type faster, primarily because I make less mistakes when using it. It is still pretty loud compared to the crappy MS one I was using before, especially when you get going as the keys bottom out pretty easily.

£120 well spent I reckon.

[OwlHoot]

Cherry were good as well.

Yes, some years ago Cherry certainly had the name for tip-top quality light-touch mechanical key business keyboards, instead of the clackety rubbish one typically finds today.

I think they're still around too, but it'll take me too long to check (see my post about being capped - I'm currently running at modem speed )

[Sysman]

The best keyboards I've used were Digital (later Compaq) LK series keyboards. Rumour had it that you could put them through the dishwasher, though I never tried.

Cherry were good as well.

[jim2406]

I've got three das keyboards, one in each of the places i find myself working.

Bloody amazing keyboard, and having used it, everything else seems sub par.

I'd honestly consider giving one a go.

[doodab]

The Model M is, as I suspected, only available in beige. And quite expensive on eBay.

I did find these guys, apparently they bought the rights from IBM. Not sure about the grey keys though.

IBM keyboards, clicky keyboard, model m keyboards

[Fishface]

IBM Model M

Or the keyboards for the Apple Macintosh IIcs or Quadra were pretty good too.

[doodab]

like the Spetrum 48K?

There was a whole industry that grew up making "proper" keyboards for the spectrum. We had one of these

[chef]

Little rubber dome squishy wobbly keys? Mmm like the sound of those, I could happily spend my day fiddling with them.

like the Spetrum 48K?

[xoggoth]

Little rubber dome squishy wobbly keys? Mmm like the sound of those, I could happily spend my day fiddling with them.