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Title: IBM Model M identification ?
Post by: LiquidEvilGaming on Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:31:53
So i am looking at a model M on Craigslist for cheap money but the woman who owns it does not own a keycap puller and has NO idea what i am talking about...All she was able to provide was the following.

Part # 1370477 
Fru # 60G0814
DateL 7/21/95

Anyway to tell this is a real model M or not going from the above info?  I know there are a few RubberDome Model M's out there in existence.
Title: Re: IBM Model M identification ?
Post by: smknjoe on Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:34:01
Should be BS. Just google the part #...
Title: Re: IBM Model M identification ?
Post by: smknjoe on Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:34:41
"Part # 1370477"
Title: Re: IBM Model M identification ?
Post by: JimByr on Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:46:49
Buckling spring, one part stem+key cap, SDL cable, drain channels. See the Model M Wiki on Wikipedia.
Title: Re: IBM Model M identification ?
Post by: fohat.digs on Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:54:20

I know there are a few RubberDome Model M's out there in existence.


Rubber dome Ms have part numbers beginning with "7"
Title: Re: IBM Model M identification ?
Post by: LiquidEvilGaming on Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:57:24
Buckling spring, one part stem+key cap, SDL cable, drain channels. See the Model M Wiki on Wikipedia.


Good lord there is a Wiki for Model M's alone?  ....i really need to check wiki more often.

Thanks!
Title: Re: IBM Model M identification ?
Post by: LiquidEvilGaming on Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:57:47

I know there are a few RubberDome Model M's out there in existence.


Rubber dome Ms have part numbers beginning with "7"

Good info thanks! Was not aware it was only ones starting with 7.
Title: Re: IBM Model M identification ?
Post by: Bucake on Sun, 24 April 2016, 16:37:17
are the rubber dome Model Ms capacitive? i read that they feel quite nice, so i got kinda curious
Title: Re: IBM Model M identification ?
Post by: smknjoe on Sun, 24 April 2016, 16:41:34
No.
Title: Re: IBM Model M identification ?
Post by: fohat.digs on Sun, 24 April 2016, 17:35:21
are the rubber dome Model Ms capacitive? i read that they feel quite nice, so i got kinda curious

Model Ms are not capacitive.
But I do not believe that the electrical switching method, in and of itself, necessarily has anything to do with feel.
Model Ms are simply deeply cheaped-down Model Fs, with 3 sheets of mylar with printed traces instead of a PCB at their core.