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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: maatmouse on Sat, 09 August 2014, 13:46:24

Title: Where can I get an IBM original Model M UK layout, please?
Post by: maatmouse on Sat, 09 August 2014, 13:46:24: Decided I wanted to go down the old original route. Not convinced about the Unicomp substitutes. I remember typing on that old heavy weight mechanical one years ago and thought it would be better than the dome one I have on my desk at present.

It has to be a UK layout, only.

Thanks
Title: Re: Where can I get an IBM original Model M UK layout, please?
Post by: fohat.digs on Sat, 09 August 2014, 14:08:12: Shouldn't be too hard to find. I don't know ISO model numbers, but the plant in Greenock, Scotland, churned out a bunch of them.
Title: Re: Where can I get an IBM original Model M UK layout, please?
Post by: Parak on Sat, 09 August 2014, 22:37:36: You could get one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141342410913 and then adapt it via a Soarer's.
Title: Re: Where can I get an IBM original Model M UK layout, please?
Post by: nubbinator on Sat, 09 August 2014, 22:39:31: Just needs the SDL cable:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-MODEL-M-1391406-CLICKY-KEYBOARD-Buckling-Spring-Enhanced-101-key-UK-layout-/400755343070?pt=UK_Computing_ComputerComponents_KeyboardsMice&hash=item5d4ee13ede

Rather expensive though.
Title: Re: Where can I get an IBM original Model M UK layout, please?
Post by: RabRhee on Sun, 10 August 2014, 01:51:53: They pop up fairly often on UK eBay, maybe 5 a month or more. The trick is sometimes to find what descriptions they are listed under. In my recent experience they seem to hit about the £50-60 mark, RJ45 terminal ones you can find with a little patience for £20-30 plus postage, fairly clean.

Here is one that is presently up that shouldn't need a soarer converter.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231299567765
Title: Re: Where can I get an IBM original Model M UK layout, please?
Post by: dorkvader on Sun, 10 August 2014, 07:42:41: You can also convert a "standard" model M keyboard to ISO layout very easily if you can only find ANSI ones.
Title: Re: Where can I get an IBM original Model M UK layout, please?
Post by: maatmouse on Sun, 10 August 2014, 13:34:08: Thank you for your help.

Some great ideas there. I have put in a bid on the old school one with the adaptor attached.

Not willing to pay over the odds for postage from Aiya Napa for that one. Also not willing to pay for the RJ45 cable one as my electronics skill is limited and fiddling around with an RJ45 adaptor cable in the hope it will work with a modern USB port computer is really beyond me, as I'm not sure I could get the parts.

What amazes me is how MUCH these keyboards are going for on Ebay! If I'd know this, I'd have grabbed a few from my old office years ago (they had loads in a cupboard - the only keyboard to cope with seriously hard typing) and flogged them on Ebay.
Title: Re: Where can I get an IBM original Model M UK layout, please?
Post by: dorkvader on Sun, 10 August 2014, 13:41:50: Quote from: maatmouse on Sun, 10 August 2014, 13:34:08
the only keyboard to cope with seriously hard typing

That's one reason why they go for so much now.
Title: Re: Where can I get an IBM original Model M UK layout, please?
Post by: TheSven on Mon, 03 November 2014, 10:18:47: Quote from: dorkvader on Sun, 10 August 2014, 07:42:41
You can also convert a "standard" model M keyboard to ISO layout very easily if you can only find ANSI ones.
How would you do such a thing? Soarers?
Title: Re: Where can I get an IBM original Model M UK layout, please?
Post by: gogusrl on Mon, 03 November 2014, 15:27:36: I got an Model M ISO DE layout and enough caps to switch it to UK ( I think). Let me know if you're interested. I'm from Romania so pretty close (relatively).
Title: Re: Where can I get an IBM original Model M UK layout, please?
Post by: TheSven on Tue, 11 November 2014, 10:12:07: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=7210.0 This thread might help. I might be buying one from blue goose.