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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: dw_junon on Tue, 07 June 2011, 16:51:10
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Hi folks,
Long time no post.
Thanks to a number of strokes of luck, I was able to get hold of a trade test/promotional video from '83/'84 ish that allows us to see inside the IBM Greenock plant when it was making Model Fs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEN6Rry4ekk
As well as the keyboards, you get to see type 7535 and 7565 robots, a Series/1 minicomputer and a PC running AML/E.
Try not to stare too hard :)
- dw
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inb4youknowwho
If I hadn't bid for this model robot I would never have known about the video...
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The narration says they're making PC keyboards, but I think they're for 3178 terminals.
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Cool video, thanks for sharing. Would be neat if they had an informational video about the technology behind the keyboard itself, but people were probably more interested in the robots at the time.
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Yeah, those are definitely the 3178-style Model F keyboards, not PC ones.
It's interesting to note that the notorious old-style Model F spacebar stabilizer was not handled by the robot :p
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Cool video, thanks for sharing. Would be neat if they had an informational video about the technology behind the keyboard itself, but people were probably more interested in the robots at the time.
And the video was promoting IBM's manufacturing capabilities, using keyboards as the example case.
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This deserves a resurrection.
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best movie ever since godfather
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Makes Model F plate mating seem so easy.
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So this is where baby model f's come from. :))
Side note, this gave me a nice surge of nostalgia from when I use to work in an electronic manufacturing plant a couple years ago that had a decent bit of automated equipment from roughly the same era.
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Ok thank you so much for sharing.
Now I know where the M's inherited their strength. IBM had to make them strong enough to support lousy robot handling.
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I still cant get over the fact that these keyboards are still reliable and working to this day
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If that's what they were doing 30 years ago, I wonder what keyboard manufacturing looks like today.
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I still cant get over the fact that these keyboards are still reliable and working to this day
buy one then;)
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If that's what they were doing 30 years ago, I wonder what keyboard manufacturing looks like today.
Bigger, faster, weaker with very careful calculated/programmed obsolescence.
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If that's what they were doing 30 years ago, I wonder what keyboard manufacturing looks like today.
Bigger, faster, weaker with very careful calculated/programmed obsolescence.
Sadly, yes.
You'd think with material and manufacturing advances that keyboards would last even longer.
Difficult to imagine someone regularly using a Dell or HP rubber dome keyboard in 20 or 30 years.
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If that's what they were doing 30 years ago, I wonder what keyboard manufacturing looks like today.
Bigger, faster, weaker with very careful calculated/programmed obsolescence.
Sadly, yes.
You'd think with material and manufacturing advances that keyboards would last even longer.
Difficult to imagine someone regularly using a Dell or HP rubber dome keyboard in 20 or 30 years.
Garbage in garbage out :P