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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Touch_It on Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:11:20

Title: name this IBM keyboard
Post by: Touch_It on Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:11:20: (http://images.craigslist.org/00B0B_2QDZWQoTuUi_600x450.jpg)

Saw this posting on craigslist in my area for $50.00 Their only contact is phone :( (I hate talking on the phone, even to family). Was hoping someone could identify this from the poor picture.

edit: They say the computer is a 3270.
Title: Re: name this IBM keyboard
Post by: 00zeRO on Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:12:31: It looks like an old IBM 8088. My mother had one...I wish I still had that keyboard...
Title: Re: name this IBM keyboard
Post by: fohat.digs on Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:32:04: Quote from: Touch_It on Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:11:20
Saw this posting on craigslist in my area for $50.00

Buy it. That is a beauty, even if the keyboard is a bust. The strange yellowing makes me think that it is not IBM, I can't really remember any true blue gear that I have bought that has yellowed.
Title: Re: name this IBM keyboard
Post by: Touch_It on Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:34:30: Seems like a good deal but honestly I wouldn't even know what to do with the computer. You bring up a good point about the yellowing though. The cord now that I look at it doesn't look very IBM'ish either.
Title: Re: name this IBM keyboard
Post by: 0100010 on Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:37:25: I got MSDOS 6 to run on an 8088 when I was much younger.
Title: Re: name this IBM keyboard
Post by: 00zeRO on Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:46:07: Quote from: 0100010 on Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:37:25
I got MSDOS 6 to run on an 8088 when I was much younger.

Awesome! I remember when the hard drive was only 256 KB! lol
Title: Re: name this IBM keyboard
Post by: Daniel Beardsmore on Fri, 24 October 2014, 02:40:52: Quote from: 00zeRO on Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:46:07
Awesome! I remember when the hard drive was only 256 KB! lol

What model hard drive was that?
Title: Re: name this IBM keyboard
Post by: Touch_It on Fri, 24 October 2014, 10:10:06: Quote from: 0100010 on Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:37:25
I got MSDOS 6 to run on an 8088 when I was much younger.

You made me feel young, lol.
Title: Re: name this IBM keyboard
Post by: SpecTP on Fri, 24 October 2014, 12:37:20: the profile/color of that keyboard does not look like it's from the original IBM manufacture which was thicker and same color as the pc.