* On 2024 04 Feb 04:23 -0600, hw wrote: > On Fri, 2024-02-02 at 20:09 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > [...] > > I have several of the now classic IBM Model M keyboards I procured in > > the '90s. Modern BIOSes don't like them even with a PS/2 to USB > > adapter so I gave up on them. > > They might work with a so-called active adapter. IIRC it has > something to do with the adpater suppling power. With some research > and an investment of like $5, you can probably still use your > keyboards.
As I use GNOME, I need the left menu key as I have the hotspot disabled to open the overview. My old Model Ms lack that key. > Unicomp[1] still makes these keyboards, and you can get them for USB. I don't like their swapping of the right Alt and Menu keys unless the keyboard can be configured to swap them back. Otherwise, I would prefer the right Menu key in that position be removed and that area given back to the Space bar. I don't find any documentation on their Web site about that capability. I do like about the Daskeyboard is that instead of being the right Menu key that key is a Function key much like a laptop and it activates media control keys on several of the function keys. It's quite handy to raise or lower the speaker volume when playing a video full screen. > I'm using one right now (with 122 keys), and among all the different > keyboards I used over the last 40 years, I've never found anything > better than these buckling spring ones. No question. The M is the ultimate but unless someone can point me to a document that shows swapping those two keys, I won't be buying. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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