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I'm sorry, completely unrelated - Where can I buy a trackpoint? Or the closest standalone part that resembles it? If I can smash a trackpoint onto a mechanical

by glasss 4y ago

I'm sorry, completely unrelated - Where can I buy a trackpoint? Or the closest standalone part that resembles it? If I can smash a trackpoint onto a mechanical keyboard I would love to.

seltzered_ 4y ago
There's tons of places that talk about this, perhaps start here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrackPoint_Builders/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TrackPoint_Builders/
70rd 4y ago
Some folks over at r/ergomechkeyboards have done this (for example https://redd.it/yhioec https://redd.it/yhioec). Also probably worth checking out https://www.reddit.com/r/trackpoint_builders https://www.reddit.com/r/trackpoint_builders
kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
If scavenging, another option is scrollpoint mice. There are a lot of early models with balls that no one wants to use anymore.
5- 4y ago
no need to smash things: https://tex.com.tw/collections/keyboard https://tex.com.tw/collections/keyboard
- geoka9 4y ago
  Typing this on a Tex Shinobi, I can't recommend this keyboard enough. Its Trackpoint is even better than a Thinkpad one. It's the original module with 2 improvements: the ability to adjust the nipple sensitivity from the keyboard and the large buttons which are actually full-blown keys with mechanical switches. It's also a very nice keyboard on its own. The keycap shape is unique and very nice to the touch, once you get used to it. I can even place the Shinobi directly on top of my Thinkpad's (X1C6) built-in keyboard so that I don't have to use the latter unless I'm traveling (and unwilling to bring the Shinobi along).
  - naikrovek 4y ago
    yep I have a Shinobi as well. the default SA/DSA key profile is annoying but liveable. the trackpoint is perfection
  - nh2 4y ago
    I have the Shinobi as well. It is my keyboard dream come true: I always wished that somebody (ideally not Lenovo) would make an external Thinkpad keyboard with physical switches. And then Tex did exactly that. Now some laptop project (perhaps Framework?) just has to team up with Tex to make a real ThinkPad alternative.
- berbec 4y ago
  If only they made a wireless model.
  - 5- 4y ago
    https://tex.com.tw/products/ble-kits https://tex.com.tw/products/ble-kits
Multicomp 4y ago
Unicomp (makers of the IBM Buckling Spring keyboards these days) has the EnduraPro, a buckling spring keyboard with a built-in trackpoint. https://www.pckeyboard.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_code=EnduraPro https://www.pckeyboard.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Cate... But that page says 'sorry one of our parts suppliers went belly up and we're trying to find a new one' so you can't buy a new one today.
neilv 4y ago
> If I can smash a trackpoint onto a mechanical keyboard I would love to. There's precedent. :) If I heard correctly, when the inventor went to pitch TrackPoint in a meeting at IBM, he showed up with a normal keyboard, a TrackPoint assembly, and a drill, and proceeded to retrofit a TrackPoint in front of them. He once spontaneously offered to give me a new TrackPoint SpaceSaver II keyboard (he had a couple retail boxes of them in his office). That happened to be my dream keyboard at the time, so I knew it was $170, which seemed way too expensive a gift for a poor grad student, so I couldn't accept. :)
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bluedino 4y ago
Lenovo keyboard KU-1255

by glasss 4y ago

I'm sorry, completely unrelated - Where can I buy a trackpoint? Or the closest standalone part that resembles it? If I can smash a trackpoint onto a mechanical keyboard I would love to.

seltzered_ 4y ago

There's tons of places that talk about this, perhaps start here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrackPoint_Builders/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TrackPoint_Builders/

70rd 4y ago

Some folks over at r/ergomechkeyboards have done this (for example https://redd.it/yhioec https://redd.it/yhioec). Also probably worth checking out https://www.reddit.com/r/trackpoint_builders https://www.reddit.com/r/trackpoint_builders

kevin_thibedeau 4y ago

If scavenging, another option is scrollpoint mice. There are a lot of early models with balls that no one wants to use anymore.

5- 4y ago

no need to smash things: https://tex.com.tw/collections/keyboard https://tex.com.tw/collections/keyboard

geoka9 4y ago
Typing this on a Tex Shinobi, I can't recommend this keyboard enough. Its Trackpoint is even better than a Thinkpad one. It's the original module with 2 improvements: the ability to adjust the nipple sensitivity from the keyboard and the large buttons which are actually full-blown keys with mechanical switches. It's also a very nice keyboard on its own. The keycap shape is unique and very nice to the touch, once you get used to it. I can even place the Shinobi directly on top of my Thinkpad's (X1C6) built-in keyboard so that I don't have to use the latter unless I'm traveling (and unwilling to bring the Shinobi along).
- naikrovek 4y ago
  yep I have a Shinobi as well. the default SA/DSA key profile is annoying but liveable. the trackpoint is perfection
- nh2 4y ago
  I have the Shinobi as well. It is my keyboard dream come true: I always wished that somebody (ideally not Lenovo) would make an external Thinkpad keyboard with physical switches. And then Tex did exactly that. Now some laptop project (perhaps Framework?) just has to team up with Tex to make a real ThinkPad alternative.
berbec 4y ago
If only they made a wireless model.
- 5- 4y ago
  https://tex.com.tw/products/ble-kits https://tex.com.tw/products/ble-kits

Multicomp 4y ago

Unicomp (makers of the IBM Buckling Spring keyboards these days) has the EnduraPro, a buckling spring keyboard with a built-in trackpoint. https://www.pckeyboard.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_code=EnduraPro https://www.pckeyboard.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Cate... But that page says 'sorry one of our parts suppliers went belly up and we're trying to find a new one' so you can't buy a new one today.

neilv 4y ago

> If I can smash a trackpoint onto a mechanical keyboard I would love to. There's precedent. :) If I heard correctly, when the inventor went to pitch TrackPoint in a meeting at IBM, he showed up with a normal keyboard, a TrackPoint assembly, and a drill, and proceeded to retrofit a TrackPoint in front of them. He once spontaneously offered to give me a new TrackPoint SpaceSaver II keyboard (he had a couple retail boxes of them in his office). That happened to be my dream keyboard at the time, so I knew it was $170, which seemed way too expensive a gift for a poor grad student, so I couldn't accept. :)

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bluedino 4y ago

Lenovo keyboard KU-1255