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. > > Unicomp[1] still makes these keyboards, and you can get them for USB. > > 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.
if they made them with a metal base mine would probably still be working, but the plastic base is too flexible for me. i have two dead ones. :( the pressure fitted ribbon cable connection is a really bad design and those plastic tabs break off. otherwise the feel is good. very loud when i'm writing... songbird
