pendell

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I use outdated technology just for fun, listen to crappy music, and watch a lot of horror movies. Expect posts about These Things. I talk a lot.

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I recently got this G3 Lombard on the cheap and it's a pretty neat machine. Unfortunately many keys on the keyboard are totally unresponsive. Specifically, the entire number row, the return/enter, apostrophe/quote, and the up and right keys. This makes the machine, understandably, a little difficult to use.

And I have yet to find any reasonably priced listing for the keyboards for this machine. In fact, the only listing I've found so far is from DV Warehouse, who I have no idea the reputability of, for $99! Ninety-nine whole ass dollars for a laptop keyboard from the 90s... It supposedly comes with a nice warranty, but again, I don't know if this is even a legit company.

Now, there are plenty of keyboards available for the later Wall Street and Pismo variants of the PowerBoom G3, but from what I've read, these use a different connector that makes them incompatible with the Lombard. So I'm up shit creek without a paddle.

Does anyone know of a solution here? Is it wrong that the Pismo keyboards are incompatible? If they are actually incompatible, is there some way of adapting them to work on the Lombard? Do you, reading this right now, have a working Lombard keyboard you no longer need? I'll buy it! Please, anything but this insane BS. I'd like to actually use this machine someday.


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