Modern USB Rock beats ASCII Scissors.
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USB Drive made out of recycled newspaper beats USB Rock.
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Hi all!
Would anyone able to identify this keyboard?
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It's alledgedly IBM Corp.
It kinda looks like a Model M, it's just the horizontal line running above the function keys that's confusing me, also the arrows on the cursor keys look slightly larger than those I've seem on other Model M piccies.
Is that picture from ebay? Any other info on the original web site? Doesn't look like any IBM keyboard I've seen although certainly in a similar style. No IBM logo or obvious location of missing logo seems to point to not being IBM.
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Very pertinent advice when it was made...
Now, now..... I wouldn't have given the keyboard a second look either.
The instruction manual is pretty nifty too - sure beats anything I ever got with an IBM. This still cracks me up.
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IBM gave me a diagnostics floppy disk when my model of computer doesn't even HAVE a floppy drive (although, it works in thinkcentres).
The IBM manuals are actually quite helpful, they list all of the internals of their computers, how to open them etc. I've used them plenty of times.
However, there are the ocassional mistakes, like, showing how to hook up a modern L190 LCD to a 5160's 9-pin port:
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=8595&stc=1&d=1269108998)
I'm not even sure why they made a vector of the 5160, and that L190 manual had a lot of typos. Someone made it in a hurry.
IBM gave me a diagnostics floppy disk when my model of computer doesn't even HAVE a floppy drive (although, it works in thinkcentres).
The IBM manuals are actually quite helpful, they list all of the internals of their computers, how to open them etc. I've used them plenty of times.
However, there are the ocassional mistakes, like, showing how to hook up a modern L190 LCD to a 5160's 9-pin port:
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(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=8595&stc=1&d=1269108998)
I'm not even sure why they made a vector of the 5160, and that L190 manual had a lot of typos. Someone made it in a hurry.
There are 8-bit VGA cards. Not only can you hook up a flat-panel to a XT, you can hook up a Hercules monitor to the 9-pin port and get a reasonable VGA picture (albeit getting 1.5x copies of the image side-by-side).