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Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: chimera15 on Mon, 14 June 2010, 07:05:06: http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Vintage-IBM-Tactile-Clicky-Compact-Keyboard-/230487522101?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item35aa207b35

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Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: javifast on Mon, 14 June 2010, 07:06:09: An M2 model???
Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: kriminal on Mon, 14 June 2010, 07:12:48: hmm weird looks like a rubberdome to me, keys seem standard height.. hmm ohwell just an observation.
Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: pfink on Mon, 14 June 2010, 08:29:40: Quote from: chimera15;192941
http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Vintage-IBM-Tactile-Clicky-Compact-Keyboard-/230487522101?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item35aa207b35

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Definitely an M2.
Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: erricrice on Mon, 14 June 2010, 09:06:08: Every time I click on a link to a KB on ebay I see this (http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-KB850-Bluetooth-Keyboard-for-Desktop-Laptop-PC_W0QQitemZ120427767254QQcategoryZ33963QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D20%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D7823775827802039806). I think they're going to get me to buy it eventually, just through pure repetition...

And yeah, looks to me like an M2
Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: Mental Hobbit on Mon, 14 June 2010, 09:23:37: Quote from: erricrice;192960
Every time I click on a link to a KB on ebay I see this (http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-KB850-Bluetooth-Keyboard-for-Desktop-Laptop-PC_W0QQitemZ120427767254QQcategoryZ33963QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D20%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D7823775827802039806).

Yeah, marketing software is scarily smart these days. I bought a vacuum cleaner from Amazon two years ago. Now they know they I'm totally into vacuum cleaners and crave for more vacuum cleaners, so my entry page has been full of vacuum cleaners ever since.
Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: ch_123 on Mon, 14 June 2010, 09:45:28: Standard buckling spring M2. And yes, the keys are flat, they are like that on all M2s.
Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: chimera15 on Mon, 14 June 2010, 14:50:53: So it's a buckling spring board? hmm
Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: JBert on Mon, 14 June 2010, 15:51:54: In what time where these released? Could they have been affected by the "capacitor plague"?
Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: ch_123 on Mon, 14 June 2010, 16:24:57: From 1990 to 1995 AFAIK
Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: EverythingIBM on Mon, 14 June 2010, 17:26:36: Well if it works, it would be a nice little keyboard. I must admit normal model Ms are quite gigantic.
Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: shag on Mon, 14 June 2010, 19:18:06: I guess that's why everyone is going the Space Saver route. Too bad the M2 has a bad reliability track record.
Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: JBert on Tue, 15 June 2010, 14:26:10: Quote from: ch_123;193050
From 1990 to 1995 AFAIK
Way too early then to have those famously bad capacitors. Still, they picked an unreliable one.
Title: ibm board unsure of model
Post by: In Stereo! on Tue, 15 June 2010, 17:15:54: I have one of those in a working state (whith the original capacitors), but I don't really like it. It is just as filmsy as the cheapest rubber dome.