[rescue] What would you pay for a Type 5 keyboard?

[RichTea]

Reading this inspired me so forgive my tangent.
I just went through my stash of old KB's found a Type4, 5 loads of 6's my
daily driver is a Type 7 =)

I had a few diffident adaptors over the years the two I have found right
now:
One is a Belkin OmniView F1D082, it have Sun to PS2 and 13w3 to VGA but
that's the wrong way around PS2 -> Sun.
Another is an "Access Keyboards KMS4" which was much more interesting it
was a KM Switch, Its Inputs were Serial, PS2 and Sun, it had 4 outputs
depending on the cable you had were PS2 or Sun.
I found two of them on eBay years ago but have never seen them since.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050211002448/http://www.accesskeyboards.co.uk:80/kms4.htm

I have at least one more type of KM switch I can not find right now but i
used it to switch my Sun KB between Sun and PC at work. I'm sure I saw it
just last week but can not remember the make.

Now if I could only find the time to clean up the Type 4 =)


Ritchie


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On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 09:29, Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Tuning in late ...
>
> I was going to suggest looking at https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/ (the
> keyboard has a HHKB-style Split right shift and split backspace layout
> that is a reasonable replica of the Unix layout sans special keys down
> the left (on a Type5)). It's a left of field suggestion and the sticker
> price is /high/, but it's solid enough to outlast a lifetime of typing.
>
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 14:43:23 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   The tech side is easy.  The plastics and mass production parts are
> > hard.  Since some unnamed orange person Made Manufacturing
>
> It should be noted that the keyboard above was a "hobby project"
> started by 'Ellipse'. Took ~5 years so it's not an easy thing (and the
> manufacturing was done in China), but it's not impossible.
>
> --
> Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
>
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