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Comment on Replacement PS/2 cable for IBM Model M keyboard?

3/5 of your post didn’t even exist before 99/100 of your audience.

And, as someone who had to deal with this fucking bullshit all throughout the 90s, I learned better than to dive back into it contemporaneously.

Leave your Rosie memories in the past. Trying to reconstruct them now will only cause you nightmares.

But, at least I will enjoy your horrifyingly avoidable nightmares.

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
… wat? What’s with your hate for a keyboard?

Outside of missing the windows key there’s nothing wrong with the model M. PS/2 interface is fine too. Most boards support hotplugging it and it basically work or it doesn’t unlike USB which can get weird.

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- floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I don’t hate keyboards. I hate the PS2 connector.
  
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thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
down vote this post but he is speaking truth. unless you’re going to solder and deal with the cosmetics of diy, just get a modern mechanical keyboard

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- SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I bought this keyboard as more of a historical keepsake rather than for a daily driver. Still, I would to like to have it in good shape and learn to tinker with old electronics.
  
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  - TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I think I bought mine off mono price. I’m sorry Amazon has some. But I also used a ps2 to USB adapter and used it as a daily driver for years. The only reason I stopped was because it was too loud when no longer had an office to myself.
    
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  - thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    more power to you. don’t get me wrong I think it’s great keeping old hardware going but I have access to a large cache of old hardware (at work we have a defunct computer museum. More Apple II’s then anyone could want) and it’s generally not worth fixing because there’s always another collecting dust just around the corner.
    
    But if you were going to use this old ps2 with a pa2->usb dongle for a daily driver it’s probably not worth it after soldering and cosmetic detail
    
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  - floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You can very likely get a PS2 to USB adapter on Amazon for like a dollar.
    
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- DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  No modern mechanical keyboard can come even close to spring buckled keyboards.
  
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  - floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Then get a PS2 to USB adapter. They’re like a dollar on Amazon.
    
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