Type M IBM Keyboard in Q [aka Re: [rescue] rediscovering simple pleasures.. (old IBM keyboards)]

[Michael Free]

Oh, and FWIW, since you guys are looking for good keyboards, I thought I'd
chip in here.

I've always heard rumors that the Tandy 101 Enhanced keyboard packaged with
the later 1000 series machines was a repackaged Northgate Omnikey... mine
has a DIN-5 standard AT connector, and the part that lends a little credence
to the theory is that it has autoswitch circuitry in it... plug it in an AT
or an XT, it works either way.

MF
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Lonstein" <rlonstein at pobox.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: Type M IBM Keyboard in Q [aka Re: [rescue] rediscovering simple
pleasures.. (old IBM keyboards)]


> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:56:49PM -0500, Leslie Connally wrote:
> > For the record, and I am not saying this is the only good FRU, _this_
> > keyboard in question's (good spring-loaded Type M) specifics are:
> >
> > date 1993
> > PN: 1391401
> > FRU: 1392090
> > ID# (?) : 8677878
> >
> > these _are_ very very odd IBM numbers.. all recent IBM FRU are
##letter####.
>
> Here at work, I have the following on the bottom plate:
> Date: 28JUL88
> ID: 3591469
> PN: 1391401
> Plt.No: J1
> Model: M
>
> Yeah, I've been carrying this one around for a while.
>
> - Ross
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