So I was at my buddy's house last weekend. His wife had been complaining about the brakes on her nissan, I figured I'd give him a hand changing them. A few beers, a whole lot of BS, busted knuckle, good times.
So it was later, after his wife had made us dinner, that we retired to his office. The game was on, stacks of papers and boxes everywhere. In the midst of that chaos, I saw what looked to me to be a huge keyboard. I don't know if it was because of how far I was standing, the beers I had had, or what. But the keyboard seemed unusually big. I was determined to get more info about it, but in a surreptitious way. People sometimes, even that you think you know, can behave differently once they know something, or think they know something.
I played it off, my bud never saw me make eye contact with it. Later, his wife called him downstairs about something. I was like, perfect. I waited till he was long gone, then I moved some papers and boxes to get a better look.
The keyboard was bigger. Much bigger than a normal keyboard. It had that curly wire closer resembling an old land line phone, than a regular keyboard today. The plug end had weird pins. It was a brownish/gray with some white keys.
I flipped it over, there was a sticker on the back from the manufacturer. It was an IBM. I had left my cellphone in my car when I got to my buddy's house. I had done so on purpose, as I didn't want to hear from my wife while I was over there. Seemed like a great idea at the time, but now I was so missing my camera.
I told myself to memorize the numbers, but I couldn't. There seemed like their were so many. The only numbers I was able to memorize were part number 1386xxx. It was from the eighties for sure.
I've googled the heck out of it, and have found alot of info on part number 1390xxx, 1391xxx, etc., but nothing as early in what appears to be a series as my friends.
Is it rare, or common? Does anyone know anything about it? I know, I wished I had gotten more info from the sticker also.
