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Title: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: jotillo on Sun, 15 June 2014, 20:49:27
Hi, i recently bought a new, Spanish layout, Model M 122 keys terminal keyboard.

I search everywhere and can't find information about the part number printed in the back label.

The person who sold me this have more, in the same condition, and at very good price, so I wonder if I should buy another one.

I will make a Soarer's converter, my teensy arrive on the mail this week.

Here are some pictures

(http://www.filofem.com.ar/modelm/model_m_1.jpg)

(http://www.filofem.com.ar/modelm/model_m_2.jpg)

PD. sorry for my english
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: Kayla on Sun, 15 June 2014, 21:13:06
Part number 1389134 seems invalid.

Maybe its a bootleg?
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: Puddsy on Sun, 15 June 2014, 21:15:55
could also just be the first of it's kind.....
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: fohat.digs on Sun, 15 June 2014, 21:27:30
Looks real and very nice. I am surprised that it does not say "Made in ..... " near the bottom of the label.

If the price really is good, you may be able to re-sell them for a profit. Unlike some members, I do not think that there is anything wrong with that.

They are more difficult to obtain outside the US, but I would take "a good price" to mean under $30.
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: 1391406 on Sun, 15 June 2014, 21:48:05
Interesting. I've never seen a 122-key terminal board in its original styrofoam packaging with plastic cover.

I'd be curious to know what he paid.

One thing that seems a bit odd is the way the letter M (in Model M) seems etched into the laminate. The lines don't seem straight, as if someone wrote it in, but maybe that's a trick of the light in the image.
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: 1391406 on Sun, 15 June 2014, 21:51:57
Is this (http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-503238046-teclado-ibm-tipo-m-para-terminal-_JM) the very same board?

(http://mla-s2-p.mlstatic.com/teclado-ibm-tipo-m-para-terminal-9514-MLA20018302486_122013-O.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: jotillo on Mon, 16 June 2014, 06:45:43
Looks real and very nice. I am surprised that it does not say "Made in ..... " near the bottom of the label.

If the price really is good, you may be able to re-sell them for a profit. Unlike some members, I do not think that there is anything wrong with that.

They are more difficult to obtain outside the US, but I would take "a good price" to mean under $30.


Interesting. I've never seen a 122-key terminal board in its original styrofoam packaging with plastic cover.

I'd be curious to know what he paid.

One thing that seems a bit odd is the way the letter M (in Model M) seems etched into the laminate. The lines don't seem straight, as if someone wrote it in, but maybe that's a trick of the light in the image.

The exactly price i've paid is the equivalent of $29 (american dollars)

I take better picture of the label, I'll post in a minute with more details.

Is this (http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-503238046-teclado-ibm-tipo-m-para-terminal-_JM) the very same board?

Show Image
(http://mla-s2-p.mlstatic.com/teclado-ibm-tipo-m-para-terminal-9514-MLA20018302486_122013-O.jpg)


yes, is the original publication on the argentinean version of ebay.
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: jotillo on Mon, 16 June 2014, 07:44:51
more pictures.

(http://www.filofem.com.ar/modelm/modelm1.jpg)

(http://www.filofem.com.ar/modelm/modelm2.jpg)

(http://www.filofem.com.ar/modelm/modelm3.jpg)

(http://www.filofem.com.ar/modelm/modelm4.jpg)

(http://www.filofem.com.ar/modelm/modelm5.jpg)

(http://www.filofem.com.ar/modelm/modelm6.jpg)

(http://www.filofem.com.ar/modelm/modelm7.jpg)

Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: 1391406 on Mon, 16 June 2014, 11:12:38
Well, I have to say it looks really great. If you only paid the equivalent of $29 US dollars, then you should buy more and sell them. It looks brand new.
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: mougrim on Mon, 16 June 2014, 14:54:45
Great buy. Pity it's not Model F, but hey - you can't buy one for 29 dollars anymore :)
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: dorkvader on Mon, 16 June 2014, 16:10:48
Absolutely worth it.
Excellent (new?) condition?
Very early date.
Serial number of 50! Very low!!
"stepped" modifiers.
Case is partly compatible with model F.
Great find for sure.
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: jotillo on Mon, 16 June 2014, 16:34:33
Well, I have to say it looks really great. If you only paid the equivalent of $29 US dollars, then you should buy more and sell them. It looks brand new.

no market here for these things.

next week I will pick other terminal, 101 key, Model M, made in 1993, which according to the seller is in excellent condition equivalent to 8 U.S. dollars.

here is the link:
http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-510724719-teclado-ibm-model-m-para-terminales-1390250-_JM

IBM has imported a lot of these keyboards to Argentina, and we are very few enthusiasts we are interested in them
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: 1391406 on Mon, 16 June 2014, 22:46:29
Well, I have to say it looks really great. If you only paid the equivalent of $29 US dollars, then you should buy more and sell them. It looks brand new.

no market here for these things.

eBay.

Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 16 June 2014, 22:49:36
That's the cleanest, shiniest bottom label I have ever seen!
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: Techno Trousers on Tue, 17 June 2014, 00:36:31
Nice find. I wish I could find some of those plastic covers for my Model F-122s.
Title: Re: Anyone can help me to identify this Model M?
Post by: orihalcon on Wed, 16 July 2014, 20:33:24
Hmm, my guess is that the spanish layout is what makes the part number hard to find.