rakslice, 21 days ago

@kiwa the condensed font and specific indicator light labels give away that it's an NCD X-terminal keyboard

rakslice, 21 days ago

@kiwa in fact it appears to be the one in this picture of a terminal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Network_Computing_Devices_NCD-88k_X_terminal.jpg

rakslice, 21 days ago

@kiwa I think the PS/2 ones were basically mix & match no matter what terminal model you were using it with; people would order the one with the layout they wanted based on their preference

rakslice, 21 days ago

@kiwa and then use the scancodes diagrams in the docs to configure their stuff to match http://bio.gsi.de/DOCS/NCDWARE/V5.0.000/HTML/keyboar4.htm#586256

rakslice, 21 days ago

@kiwa Essentially they want to be used in PS/2 set 3 mode for all the keys to work; you can of course use them on a PC with
a real PS/2 keyboard port w/ legacy i8042 keyboard controller that you can use in linux with the classic kernel params and key mapping tools,

rakslice, 21 days ago

@kiwa but for random use with USB things you can use them with a usb/ps-2 adapter firmware like soarer's converter that supports set 3 and arbitrary remapping

rakslice, 21 days ago

@kiwa e.g. here's my config for an NCD N-107 keyboard, which has a Sun Type-4 layout https://gist.github.com/rakslice/293117de80bbe8057421088d59eab311

rakslice, 21 days ago

@kiwa I have no clue what projects can do PS/2-PS/2 remapping with set 3 if that's what the Alpha needs

kiwa, 21 days ago

@rakslice thanks for all the info, but tbh i just want to use it on the alpha in openvms, if it doesn't work there i don't see myself keeping it

rakslice, 21 days ago

@kiwa hm, i wonder if openvms/alpha itself lets you remap ps/2 scan codes

kiwa, 21 days ago

@rakslice yeah i know that some stuff can be done on vms, but not really sure, i mean the keyboard works better than the random ps2 keyboard i was using so it's an improvement, but yeah most of the function keys just do weird crap