Sauvé in extremis ce petit. Vous aussi sauvez les #claviersmécaniques de la poubelle.
Regardez-le avec toot ses ptites touches fenêtrées ! Un ptit nettoyage et hop.
I just saved thi lovely #mechanicalkeyboard from the trash can.
Look at all these tiny windowed keycaps ! Just need to clean it a bit https://octodon.social/media/06NG4a4extP89CNenoo https://octodon.social/media/7ihlrXlV0l1Is693y58
@ElectricMink I think i will desolder this one and keep the keycaps switches. This keyboard use a very special connector. I can't plug it :-(
@lord Old serisl connector? Just grab a USB adapter for it and you're good to go....
@lord Adapters cost under $15US...you just need to figure out if it's an AT-style plug or a PS/2 style plug.
@ElectricMink https://octodon.social/media/MTtGY2-fmn5Cs160Rkc
I think it's not standard at all. It wasn't connected to a computer but to a special PCB which was connected to the computer with a DB9 serial.
@lord Oooooh. Interesting. Hmm. Bet there's a way to convert that to USB, still. Don't destroy that beauty just yet!
@ElectricMink It has a better feeling that my cherry d8572 but is way bigger too.
@lord Looks like it was driving the keyboard speakers over that parallel port on top of connecting up the leyboard itself. O.o There has got to be a way.....
@ElectricMink This keyboard is in fact a POPC (don't know the english term sorry) which acts as phone linked to a an Alcatel PBX. It has a speaker and a microphone i think.
@lord Very interesting. And I'm having a bear of a time finding any pinouts whatdoever for that connector - DB26 D-SUB, I think?
@ElectricMink Yes it looks like it.
@lord You don't have the board that converted to DB9? Because it's easy to go from DB9 to USB...
@ElectricMink nope. I only saved the keyboard.
@lord From the styling, it looks like a later keyboard, so I'm betting it has a PS/2 connector.
@lord Sweet. I have three similar tucked away in various stages of restoration...without the snazzy windowed keys. Now I'm jealous.