Replacement PS/2 cable for IBM Model M keyboard?

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• SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’d just get an extension cable & get to soldering. Alternatively, install a converter so you can attach a USB cable.

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So unlike apparently everyone else on these threads, I actually have a Model M. Okay, technically I have three Model Ms, but still…

  What kind of PS/2 cable is it? permanent or modular?

  Is it still working, even if it looks rough?

  Are you comfortable soldering?

  If not, are you at least comfortable following a simple wiring diagram?

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• xyzzy@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you actually just need a replacement PS/2 cable, it looks like eBay has them for sale.

  Monoprice sells PS/2 to USB dongles.

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• floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No modern mechanical keyboard can come even close to spring buckled keyboards.

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• Offbus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’re looking for what’s called a “pigtail”. Ps/2 seems to be another name for 6-pin “mini-din”, which is a standardized connector format.

  Here’s an example.

  www.amazon.com/…/B0D9BD64QR/

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You could always go anachronistic and make it Bluetooth.

  learn.adafruit.com/…/overview

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Buy any recent(ish) keyboard with a PS2 connector, remove it, and soldier it onto the Model M.

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