* Keypro FK-9000 ** Backstory/Info This is a pretty interesting keyboard. At the end of the post I'll render an UNICODE ascii picture of it for those interested. I wanted to write something quickly as a documentation exercise and as something perhaps useful to others. I've had this old Keypro FK-9000 and Soarer Converter lying around for a couple of years now and I had yet to play with it. So, last night, I finally decided to check it out. Basically it's an old 5 PIN keyboard that has a few cool tricks: - built in calculator and lcd - You can hit a latching key on the keyboard and the numpad input will then be sent to the little on board LCD screen - 12 on board programmable macro keys The Soarer Converter cable I have, which as I understand is basically an atmega chip shoved into a cable, also allows me to remap keys as the scan codes come into the converter, before they get to the computer. ** Docs (Useful Info) It took me a while to figure out how to program the keys so for any future readers hopefully this will help: 1. Open a text editor 2. Hold the `Prog` key and hit the key you want to program (PF1-12) 3. Enter the key sequence you'd like to program 4. Hit the key you want to program again Example: Prog->PF1sometringPF1 This will also work with CTRL,RETURN,ALT,etc, however the macros all have a 14 char limit, with control chars taking up 2 chars. ** Examples (Less Useful Info) Here I'm going to document my own macros: - PF11: Ctrl-G -- Emacs escape hatch/escape/stop - PF1: Ctrl-x-b -- Emacs switch buffer menu - PF2: Ctrl-x-b-RETURN -- Based on Ido menu ordering behaves as switch to last buffer - PF3: Ctrl-x-Ctrl-f -- Open file - PF4: Ctrl-c-Ctrl-f -- Open file at point - PF5: M-xeshell-RETURN -- Open eshell - PF7: Ctrl-x-5-2 -- Open new emacs frame (window for non emacsers) - PF8: Ctrl-x-5-0 -- Close emacs frame - PF9: gT -- literally gT, AKA previous tab in vim/evil mode - PF10: gt -- literally gt, next tab in vim/evil mode ASCII WARNING: ▅▄▅▄▇━▁┰▁▁▗▅▅▖▅▂▃▄▃▅▅▆▇▇━━▁▂▃▃▃▂┯┷▝▘▃▗╈▆▂▃▃▃▃▊▅▃▃▃▄▅▆▄▅▄▂▄▂▅▃▄▄▄╹▄ ▌▌▊▌▃▝╲▃▇▇▘▃┰─▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▄▂▂▃▃▃▃▄▄▄▄▄▁╺━━▅▃▃╼┳▆━┷━▆▅▂┷▁▄▃▝▂ ▆▆▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▆▇▆▇▃▄▄▄▄▇▇▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▇▄▄▄▄▄▄▖┃▄▄▄▄▄▄▊▏▗▄▄▃▅▄▅▄▄▊▗▅▅▅▅▅▅▅┏▄▃▖ ▖╶╺▆▆▆▅▆▆▁┷▎▍▅▅▅▅▅┯▌▝▂▅▅▅▅▘▘▅▅▅▅▅▂▝╂─▆▂▂▂▂▝▉▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▁━━━━━━━━▁▃▂▋ ▅┝┬▋▍▁▆┵▁▁▆▂╶▁▆▁▌▎▊┓▍▁▊▁▌▏▋▎▎▊▋▁▍▏▉▋▎▉▍▁▎▂▋▋▌▂▋▂▍▎▂▋▘▂▂▋▂▂▋▁▂▋▁▋▄┏ ╸▎┳▆▆▆━╋▆▆▆▂╎▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▄▆▆▆▆▅▆▄▆▆▆▆▄╏▄▗▇▇▇▇▇▇╻▗▇▇▖▇▃▇▇▗▖▇▄▇▗▖▇▖▅▄▏▋▇▌ ▄▍▋━┺━━▍▅▅─▄┺╼━━▖━┱┺▗━━▖▃┱┺▅▝━━▃▅┺┯▝━━▃▖━┻┥▌▗▉▋╸┻▄┑▌▗━▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▌▊▄ ▍▋▉━━━━▋╺┷━┻▖▄━━▘━▄━▄┯━▚━▄▍▝┓▄┯━▚▆▝▌▝┳╸▘▝▝╿▌▄▊▄▄▘▅╿▌┲▊▘▅▅▅▖┓▅▌▄▍▋▝ ▅▊▌▄▄▗▄╿▝▄▄▄▄▆▄▖▏▅▍▅┃▅▌▅▖▎▅▍▅╽▅▋▅▅▍▅▇▅▅▅▌▅╽│▅▊▗▅▎▅┃▍▅▊▗▅▘▗▖▆▆▆▆▎▌▅ ▆▃▊▅▅▗▅▅▊▇▇▇▏▅▌▅▅▊▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆┃▆▆▊┏▆▎▆▆││▆▊▆▆▎▆▌▍▆▆▆▇▇▇▁▁▊▝▁▌▍▅ ▗▘▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▄▆ ▌━▏ ▂▝ ▅▅▇▅▃▃▅▅▇▆▄ ▄▅▄  ▏▄▘▂▖▝╴▄▅▅▅▃▄▅▁▇▇ ▇▇▇▘▇▋▊▋▆▍▄▃▆╸┛▄▂▘▌▗▃▂ ▂▂▄▃▆ ╶ ▌ ▅▄┺▝▂▄▂▂▃▃ ╺╍▍▅╴━▅▃▆▂▇ ▉ ▘▂▂╌▚▅▁┻▁▊▋▄▌╼▄▋┃▃▆▘▍▋▎▃▂ ▗▇▂▁▁▂▅╍▄▄▁▁▁▁▅▄▁▁▁▃▃▅▄▂▂▂▃▁╍▁▃▃┊▁▄╻▄▁╷▄▁▃━▁▄▁▆▆▇▅▇▁▁▘▝▌▊╵▃▃▃▂▎▄━▄ ┯▂▃▃▃▄▄▄▃▄▄▃▂▃▃▄▄▄▄▝▂▘▃▄▄▄▄▄▄▃━▅▘▁▃▅▅╲╴▁━▘▅▄▄▝▄▆▄━▄┭▃┒▁▘▖▎▝▖▅▅▄▄▅▃ ▃▅▝┳▄▅▖▌▖▌▗▂▂▃▁▂▃▄▅▆▆▅▃▂▁▁▅▆▁▗▂▄▆▂▂▄▆▁▆▃▖▆▇▇▆▇▇╲▅┓▌▍▅▆▗▎▗▆▝▝▖▅▊▌▄▅ ▃▃▃╸▂▃▄▅▆╼━▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▃▃╼▁▗▁▁▂▄▄▅▄▂▄▄▃╎▅▃▝▅▃▄▂▄▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▄▃▃▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▆▆▆▅▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▆ ▝▄▄▋╉└▄╌▅┓▃╷▃▘▅▂▅▇▃▄▇▇▅▇▄┰▇▇▎▚▇▖▇▇▇▅▇▅▇▇▇▇▇┯▇▆▆▇▇▇▖▇▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▅▆ .