Hello all,
I stumbled onto this place, after getting my hands on a model F AT, that needed to be restored. Whole thing needed to be taken apart, plate cleaned and painted, new foam cut, the infuriating work of putting it back together AND getting the space bar to work...
Point being, I likely wouldn't have attempted it without this place. Thanks to all who have posted their experiences on here to help others.
I've attached a pic of my restored F AT not much to look at other than a nice stock clean keyboard. I haven't done anything fancy to it. No ANSI mod or USB converter. The keyboard is plugged into the 386 DX-40 I picked it up with (a steal at $60 CAD these days for the system and FAT keyboard) used for classic DOS stuff and I plan to keep it stock. Exception is it didn't come with an IBM logo. Someone had removed it a but some Brandz logo in its place. I found some old broken Selectric's at the recycler and one had a square black IBM badge. Cost me 5 bucks, doesn't fit the whole gap, but doesn't look too bad for now until I can get my hands on a broken case with a badge I can use.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for the site. Hope I can help someone here some day half as much as this place has helped me.
corkz