Selling keyboards without the terminal

[Yvan Janssens]

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:

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> > 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).
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> > Warner
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> 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.
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