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Title: What is that IBM Model F Connector?
Post by: kennyk64 on Thu, 13 March 2014, 10:17:41

Hello fellow Ghers, I came across this keyboard on google and does anyone here knows what type of connector is that?

(http://i.imgur.com/s3AS80T.jpg)

Title: Re: What is that IBM Model F Connector?
Post by: blackbox on Thu, 13 March 2014, 17:26:24

Hello. Acording to the d-subminiture standard that should be a da-xx (xx is a number). You can find more information about dsubminiature here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-subminiature (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-subminiature)

Acording to the thread below it is an da-15 connector.

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=12591.0 (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=12591.0)

To find out what connector it is simply count the number of pins in the contact and replace xx with the number.

example:

if it is 15 pins

da-xx is da-15

Title: Re: What is that IBM Model F Connector?
Post by: Parak on Thu, 13 March 2014, 17:33:14

Yep, DA-15. Specifics:

(http://www.kbdbabel.org/conn/kbd_connector_ibm3178.png)

Title: Re: What is that IBM Model F Connector?
Post by: kennyk64 on Thu, 13 March 2014, 20:43:48

Thanks for the info guys! Will start to look around for more info. Cheers!  ;D