So, I have built a USB adapter for my 5150’s keyboard. The experience is actually quite bad, as stated earlier. The main reason why I still use it is because I took it with me from Belgium - it’s a French keyboard, and having access to all the special characters makes typing in eg. French, German or Spanish so much easier in the odd cases I have to.
For my main daily driver I just use a Unicomp PC5250. Like others said, new keyboards based on the original mechanisms perform so much better. I spend a lot of my work in 5250 sessions, and I also play MMOs, so having a keyboard which doesn’t have to do almost-matching translations make sense. Some people just have too much money. On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 17:20, Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > They are just PS/2 keyboards, right? Or AT? The USB adapters for that > are a > > dime a dozen. I have 4 in my basement (the real PS/2 to USB, not the faux > > ones that allowed dual-mode mice to connect to USB). > > > > Warner > > > > The 3101 is not PS/2, pre-dates the IBM PC. If someone made an adapter > it'd be unique to this class of terminal. May be like a DisplayWriter > perhaps. >