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Title: Ibm m1? M2?
Post by: Hak Foo on Tue, 22 September 2009, 00:16:23

I grabbed another thrift-shop find.

It looks like a M2, and it works like one (typical BS feel, and not working right.  Many keys simply don't work.  Maybe I drowned it when I washed it over with alcohol.

But the label is interesting:

Easy Options
Part No. 60G3570
ID No, 0044966
Plt No. WP1 Model M1

Made in USA 18-OCT-93.

What's a M1?  Evidently it's as unreliable as an M2.  It's probably headed for the trash.

Title: Ibm m1? M2?
Post by: keyb_gr on Tue, 22 September 2009, 11:43:46

Didn't that one belong to the PS/1?

Title: Ibm m1? M2?
Post by: lowpoly on Tue, 22 September 2009, 11:47:25

I got my first M2 with the PS/1 it belonged to. But there was more than one version of the PS/1.

Title: Ibm m1? M2?
Post by: Hak Foo on Wed, 23 September 2009, 21:18:08

Just recording the label for posterity.  I think the M1 is headed for the trash can now.  I can deal with bad keyboards, but fundamentally non-working is not worth my time.

Pity.  If better made, the small case could have made it a competitor.

Title: Ibm m1? M2?
Post by: lowpoly on Thu, 24 September 2009, 03:44:34

Keep it for spare parts. Or give it to someone who is willing to repair it. Might be an early or rare version.

Title: Ibm m1? M2?
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 24 September 2009, 04:28:06

Saw one of these described on clickykeyboard.com (as opposed to clickykeyboards.com) I thought it was a typo, but sure enough, there really is an M1...

Title: Ibm m1? M2?
Post by: ch_123 on Tue, 04 May 2010, 12:41:12

Bumped into this page while searching for something. The "Easy Options" part suggests to me that this was a retail keyboard as opposed to one bundled with a computer. The only other Model M1 I've seen was also an Easy Options board. So there you go - M1 was for retail, M2 for PS/1s.

Title: Ibm m1? M2?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Tue, 04 May 2010, 22:21:31

Quote from: lowpoly;120209

Keep it for spare parts. Or give it to someone who is willing to repair it. Might be an early or rare version.

You know, sometimes it's good just to throw it all out: collecting too much useless things turns you into a packrat. I don't horde broken IBM computers. And selling things like that can often be annoying...

Title: Ibm m1? M2?
Post by: bhtooefr on Wed, 05 May 2010, 06:23:38

The irony of your statement is amusing.

(Hint: 300PLs are, usually, useless for running modern software, unless it's something like a low-load web and/or file server. Even then, they're power hogs compared to a good Atom board or, better yet, a SheevaPlug, and they don't support SATA, some SheevaPlugs do, and pretty much all of the Atom boards do.)

Title: Ibm m1? M2?
Post by: Mercen_505 on Wed, 05 May 2010, 10:44:48

At least save the keycaps, if nothing else.

Title: Ibm m1? M2?
Post by: ch_123 on Wed, 05 May 2010, 15:27:34

Quote from: bhtooefr;179113

The irony of your statement is amusing.

(Hint: 300PLs are, usually, useless for running modern software, unless it's something like a low-load web and/or file server. Even then, they're power hogs compared to a good Atom board or, better yet, a SheevaPlug, and they don't support SATA, some SheevaPlugs do, and pretty much all of the Atom boards do.)

You're fighting a losing battle, the rest of us have moved onto guerrilla warfare by now...

Also, PC 300s have more lavender, so they're better than anything else.