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Title: good or bad find?
Post by: boaby on Fri, 07 May 2010, 09:30:48

A local gumtree seller is selling some old ibm gear. I phoned up about the keyboard and she said its an  InfoWindow 3153 with a part number 8131277. Struggling to find any good info on the keyboard though - is it worth chasing up?

Also, whats a good resource cross-referencing ibm part numbers?

Title: good or bad find?
Post by: kishy on Fri, 07 May 2010, 12:34:23

InfoWindow is a type of IBM dumb terminal. 3153 will be able to be cable swapped like my signature links explain.

Conversion techniques exist. It is not natively PS/2 or anything truly usable, yet.

Title: good or bad find?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 07 May 2010, 15:09:28

Quote from: boaby;179779

A local gumtree seller is selling some old ibm gear. I phoned up about the keyboard and she said its an  InfoWindow 3153 with a part number 8131277. Struggling to find any good info on the keyboard though - is it worth chasing up?

Also, whats a good resource cross-referencing ibm part numbers?

Just take all of the IBM equipment. That's what I would do.

Title: good or bad find?
Post by: boaby on Fri, 07 May 2010, 19:14:18

cheers kishy, think i'll be leaving her to it.

Title: good or bad find?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 08 May 2010, 11:14:53

Quote from: EverythingIBM;179969

Just take all of the IBM equipment. That's what I would do.

I'd do it if it was free.

Title: good or bad find?
Post by: kishy on Sat, 08 May 2010, 12:27:27

Quote from: boaby;180055

cheers kishy, think i'll be leaving her to it.

If she's going to junk it, I'd at least take the keyboard for parting out here (keycaps are mostly normal Model M compatible assuming it's a Model M type keyboard rather than F)

Other than that, little use unless you're into hardware hacking on any level.

Title: good or bad find?
Post by: ch_123 on Sat, 08 May 2010, 12:51:54

A 3151 is a Model M. It's one of those 101-keys where each F key has two  numbers on it (i.e. - F1 F13, F2 F14 etc)

In fact, it might be one of those terminal minis...

Title: good or bad find?
Post by: kishy on Sat, 08 May 2010, 13:26:50

Quote from: ch_123;180212

A 3151 is a Model M. It's one of those 101-keys where each F key has two  numbers on it (i.e. - F1 F13, F2 F14 etc)

In fact, it might be one of those terminal minis...

So when I finally decide to tell people there's nothing special about a terminal keyboard, I potentially advise someone away from a terminal mini?

FML.