2 May
2003
2 May
'03
1:57 p.m.
David Holland <dholland(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
I've had it for about a week now, and just
can't get used to funky
arrangement of the arrow keys in the middle, and the F keys on the left
just throws my Unreal Tournament gaming off.
So we know it's one of the sort with the Omni key instead of an
inverted-T layout.
If it's an Ultra, it should also have the function keys across the
top.
Anyways, I gather these things were something of a
'gotta have it'
keyboard at one time, and were bloody expensive.
Not that bad. In the mid-1990s you could get them for about $70,
which seems expensive for a keyboard, but for those of us who really
wanted the control key to be to the left of A and didn't want to have
to fuss with driver software to make it happen, it was well worth it.
If you want expensive, go check out the Avant Stellar! That is
reportedly the modern Northgate OmniKey, and it sells for about $150.
I gather it might of came with some extra keycaps when
it was new, so
you could move around control/shift. I do not have those.
So, some questions to help folks ID what you've got.
Is the control key to the left of A?
Where are the switches? Poking out the back, or hidden under the
"OmniKey" flip-top lid, or not present at all (flip the lid up, see
nothing)?
Not present at all means it is a late-model programmable keyboard.
They had firmware bugs, and the "fix" was "remove the EEPROM that
holds the key remappings".
Anyone want it? (I think this is at least on-topic)
Somebody better!
-Frank McConnell
3 May
3 May
7:50 a.m.
On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 21:33, Frank McConnell wrote:
Saw'm for as much as 198$ a couple of places.. (ouch)
No, control-key is in the bottom left hand corner. (I guess its not
quite identical to the picture on northgate-keyboard-repair.com - My
bad.)
The bottom corner keys are laid out something like so:
Capslock
Shift
Control [Grey < & > key] Alt
David Holland <dholland(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
It does. Across the top, and on the left.
I've had it for about a week now, and just
can't get used to funky
arrangement of the arrow keys in the middle, and the F keys on the left
just throws my Unreal Tournament gaming off.
So we know it's one of the sort with the Omni key instead of an
inverted-T layout.
If it's an Ultra, it should also have the function keys across the
top. Anyways, I gather these things were something of
a 'gotta have it'
keyboard at one time, and were bloody expensive.
Not that bad. In the mid-1990s you could get them for about $70,
which seems expensive for a keyboard, but for those of us who really
wanted the control key to be to the left of A and didn't want to have
to fuss with driver software to make it happen, it was well worth it.
If you want expensive, go check out the Avant Stellar! That is
reportedly the modern Northgate OmniKey, and it sells for about $150. I gather it might of came with some extra keycaps
when it was new, so
you could move around control/shift. I do not have those.
So, some questions to help folks ID what you've got.
Is the control key to the left of A?
Where are the switches? Poking out the back, or hidden under the
"OmniKey" flip-top lid, or not present at all (flip the lid up, see
nothing)?
Under the lid are a set of dip switches and what looks to be a orange
reset switch. It claims to be Rev 7.03 on the back of the keyboard.
Not present at all means it is a late-model programmable keyboard.
They had firmware bugs, and the "fix" was "remove the EEPROM that
holds the key remappings".
I've got a couple of follow up's already. (Hopefully they're paying
attention when I say: I'll find out what shipping/postage is to their
respective zip code(s) on Monday, once I can figure out what kinda box I
can find)
David
Anyone want it? (I think this is at least
on-topic)
Somebody better!
-Frank McConnell
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