even the ps/2 cable screams IBM
I'm not the buyer, but I asked the seller to send me a pic of the label:Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/mEu2VZ7.jpg)
Which is a DELL Model M.
Here's a similar one with a detachable cable:Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/8kwKPU0.jpg)
And an old listing with more pictures: http://www.ebay.com/itm/251430823194
And a web page with one from the same year with a hardwired cable (which this one I believe is): http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~duelist/1369050/index.htm
Note however these all have the standard enter.
The 1397771 Model number seems legit, but I cannot find any other photos of it.
Did somebody say Dell?
I MUST GET MY HANDS ON ONE
I think it's a Dell due to the logo cutout on the top case. The only IBM keyboard with that kind of logo might have been those Aptiva keyboards (think that was it), and they didn't have AT connectors.Don't Ambra model M's have the cutout?
But yes, that is a secondary question...
I think it's a Dell due to the logo cutout on the top case. The only IBM keyboard with that kind of logo might have been those Aptiva keyboards (think that was it), and they didn't have AT connectors.Don't Ambra model M's have the cutout?
But yes, that is a secondary question...
Even the AT&T model M's don't have an enter key like that. It's only the Wheelwriters and AT's that do, as far as I know.
I did some searching on wheelwriters too, to see if maybe they offered something like this, no luck....I have a few (4 at least) wheelwriter keyboards, and I did some poking around on them a while ago. From what I was able to determine, they didn't make anything like this for the wheelwriters, actionwriters, or any typewriter.
Or he just put keycaps from an AT model F on it.
Thanks for getting the picture of the back, E TwentyNine. So it seems legit, and is probably much rarer than any other Model M variant. It should make a nice collector's item for someone.Thats what I thought when I bought it. Thanks for the find Techno Trousers
The big thing to note is if the key next to backspace sends a proper scancode or not. It "could" in theory just be an M with some aftermarket replacement keycaps.
Thanks for getting the picture of the back, E TwentyNine. So it seems legit, and is probably much rarer than any other Model M variant. It should make a nice collector's item for someone.Thats what I thought when I bought it. Thanks for the find Techno Trousers
Yes. I will provide some info once I get the keyboard.Thanks for getting the picture of the back, E TwentyNine. So it seems legit, and is probably much rarer than any other Model M variant. It should make a nice collector's item for someone.Thats what I thought when I bought it. Thanks for the find Techno Trousers
You do realize we're going to expect an analysis of this thing once you get it? :)
Yes. I will provide some info once I get the keyboard.
Yesterday I got the Model M 1397771 that I recently acquired from the post office. Upon initial inspection I am quite sure that the fat-ass ENTER-key is genuine and the keyboard has not been tampered with:Thanks for getting the picture of the back, E TwentyNine. So it seems legit, and is probably much rarer than any other Model M variant. It should make a nice collector's item for someone.Thats what I thought when I bought it. Thanks for the find Techno Trousers
You do realize we're going to expect an analysis of this thing once you get it? :)
Yesterday I got the Model M 1397771 that I recently acquired from the post office. Upon initial inspection I am quite sure that the fat-ass ENTER-key is genuine and the keyboard has not been tampered with:Thanks for getting the picture of the back, E TwentyNine. So it seems legit, and is probably much rarer than any other Model M variant. It should make a nice collector's item for someone.Thats what I thought when I bought it. Thanks for the find Techno Trousers
You do realize we're going to expect an analysis of this thing once you get it? :)
- the keyboard sandwich has not been opened i.e.: not bolt modded, all (most of them anyway) rivets are intact
- the barrel where the \ and | key on the US-ANSI layout would be has no spring
- the barrel where the # key on the German-ISO layout would be has no spring
The fat-ass ENTER-key looks like a combination of ANSI and ISO Model M ENTER-key
If you peek down the empty barrels - are there pivot plates there (without the spring) or just an empty spot?
If you peek down the empty barrels - are there pivot plates there (without the spring) or just an empty spot?
Unless this is wildly out of character, they will be empty.
IBM made all the components (all the ones that I have seen, anyway) the same, so that alternate layouts were achieved by merely populating different barrels with springs and hammers. I would even be surprised if controllers were different, an empty barrel would simply never send a signal. But I may be wrong, that is empirical observation, not electronic knowledge.
btw... The seller has come across a trove of CompuAdd boards. She sold the 1397771. Then two CompuAdd 1399261 Model Ms and now she has a CompuAdd NMB for sale.