19 Oct
2018
19 Oct
'18
9:27 a.m.
So, I have built a USB adapter for my 5150?s keyboard. The experience is
actually quite bad, as stated earlier. The main reason why I still use it
is because I took it with me from Belgium - it?s a French keyboard, and
having access to all the special characters makes typing in eg. French,
German or Spanish so much easier in the odd cases I have to.
For my main daily driver I just use a Unicomp PC5250. Like others said, new
keyboards based on the original mechanisms perform so much better. I spend
a lot of my work in 5250 sessions, and I also play MMOs, so having a
keyboard which doesn?t have to do almost-matching translations make sense.
Some people just have too much money.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 17:20, Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
They are just PS/2 keyboards, right? Or AT? The USB adapters for that are a
dime a dozen. I have 4 in my basement (the real
PS/2 to USB, not the faux
ones that allowed dual-mode mice to connect to USB).
Warner
The 3101 is not PS/2, pre-dates the IBM PC. If someone made an adapter
it'd be unique to this class of terminal. May be like a DisplayWriter
perhaps.