I know some people still swear by their old iPods or film cameras. For me it’s a 15 year old Western Digital external HDD. Do you have any older gadgets or tech that you refuse to let go of?
I know some people still swear by their old iPods or film cameras. For me it’s a 15 year old Western Digital external HDD. Do you have any older gadgets or tech that you refuse to let go of?
That is nice. White Alps are good switches. I have a Focus FK-5001 with them that I think I’m about to completely hand wire to both convert to USB and to make all the extra keys fully programmable. It’ll mean giving up the built-in calculator though. The other option is to hope that re-insulating all the jumpers will keep it from shorting on the steel plate, then re-installing the PCB.
In the same auction I got a FK-7000P with a trackball where the arrows would go, but that means the arrows are on these awful little flaps with mouse microswitches. It also needed a complete re-cap, so I just harvested the switches for a DIY build sometime down the line.