![]() ![]() Honestly I hate ergonomic keyboards so I’ll either sell it or hold onto it for the computer museum. The original was gooped down instead of mechanical strain relief, or in addition to. You can see the area of missing Atmega chip clearly in this picture.Īfter testing I gooped the cable with hot glue. ![]() In order from left to right is Ground, VCC, Data and Clock. ![]() Yes, that’s an old Gateway 2000 P4D-66 running Windows For Workgroups 3.11, with Word 2.1 open…Īll hooked up correctly. Or something like that, bored yet?Īs is this one. Although people remove them because the programmability was only using software that ran in Windows 98. Note the missing Atmega IC in the space between the two green LEDs, if it was there then this would have been one of the programmable keyboards. To remove the keyboard PCB from the bottom of the case those screws on the side were removed. The place where the wiring attaches to the keyboard. This means that the cord that is attached was original but at some point was flayed and separated from the cord for the trackpad, possibly because it didn’t have a trackpad and it was in the way? Or people are crazy. What is interesting is that the cord and buttons for the optional trackpad are in place. Removing the top is done by removing screws coming through the bottom. (Voltage, Clock, Data, Ground, with Drain being another ground) The wires were labeled but I double checked anyway. It is extremely easy to convert AT to PS/2. It’s worth noting that the lettering on the Northgate won’t rub off because it’s part of the molding of the key. Good for learning touch typing, but not much else. I needed a PS/2 cable and this keyboard was a perfect donor. I’m not going to go on and on about mechanical keyboards the way some people endlessly do, but they are neat things. As you can see it has issues in the cord area. That said if people are going to throw away keyboards that still fetch close to $100 on Ebay, then I shall be upending myself in trashcans forever. Immediately following the Northgate and IBM Model M. Honestly I’m slightly embarrassed and worried I’m becoming a contemporary high-tech rag-and-bone man. The Northgate Omnikey Plus was one of the first keyboards released as the industry entered the Dark Ages of cheap keyboard and input designs. I have ended up rescuing items from the trash far too often this summer. ![]()
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