Well it's receiving HID codes which is fantastic, but they're all wrong, so it looks like I'll have to remap it all, key by key, but hey it's all part of the fun! ⌨️👍
Notices by Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social), page 2
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 04:54:41 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 -
Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 04:54:41 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 Mechanical Lunchbox PC keyboard to usb update:
I tested the original cable for continuity and it seemed fine, zoom forward to today when I realised that it does have an intermittent fault, so I decided to hook up straight to the board:
We have some AT / PS_2 activity! ☺️ -
Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 05:16:42 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 £3, always nice to have a few different size CF's for testing!
32MB
256MB X2
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 05:44:20 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 I'm trying to identify this Pentium 3 board on The Retro Web, it's going to need a cleanup and recap, but has AGP, PCI and ISA! 👍
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 04:21:58 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 Pretty decent packing job, I think I'd have put a bit on the sides, but hey it's not mangled!
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 04:21:58 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 My Honeywell Bull AP-L (286 laptop from 1989) has arrived! 😎
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 04:21:57 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 This was the before photo, it came with 3x floppy disks:
💾 Zenith MS-DOS 3.3
💾 Zenith Utilities for MS-DOS 3.3
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 04:21:57 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 FYI, I have inspected it and it's in good order, I gave it a full scrub down and clean with Isopropyl, it had what looked like nail varnish on - but it's come up a treat!
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 04:21:57 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 When I was looking at the sellers pictures, the logo stickers didn't look great, but they're immaculate, it's because they're silver, so their lighting mustn't have been great. Ohh this is exciting!
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 04:21:56 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 The power connector is positive on the outside, so I've had to make this reversed polarity connector.
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:46:30 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 While I wait for my Honeywell Bull laptop to arrive, I've decided I'm going to tackle repairing this:
1989 Twinhead Superlap 386SX Lunchbox PC.
It currently doesn't show any signs of life, I think I'll need to do some repairs on both the internal PSU and the motherboard. -
Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:46:29 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 First thing to do is to take all the pins out the keyboard connector and reattach them firmly, I'm going to need that keyboard!
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:46:29 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 Oh wow, look at this amazing mechanical keyboard it has, not documented anywhere on the internet!
It has Alps SKFR/SKFS low-profile switches! 😍 -
Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:46:28 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 This doesn't look great! 🤣
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:46:28 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 I've replaced all the iffy caps in the PSU, seems to be fine now.
Moving onto the motherboard, that 10uF cap is fried (not related to my mini explosion), time to pop a couple out and give them a test: -
Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:46:28 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 Some indoor fireworks up in this joint!
💥 BOOM💥
Warning: don't trust the voltage on those variable laptop PSUs!
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:46:27 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 I've stuck a 10uF Aluminum electrolytic capacitor in here temporarily, I really want to see if I can get any life out of this, all darkness so far!
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:46:27 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 Yep, it's pretty much just shorted out!
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:46:27 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 Testing a good one: this is correctly reading as 10uF and good V-loss:
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:46:26 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 😍