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It's a grille for a speaker used with some of the terminal Model Ms (it just made a beep sound when you pressed the keys). The PC Model M's have the grille but no speaker.
Thanks. I wonder why they left the grille.
Or, as pointed out above, they were used for terminal keyboards.Their RS/6000 Unix workstation keyboards had them too, for the same reason that the terminal keyboards had them.
Some models did have the speaker; I believe a few made in mexico did?Customers at a business or school may have wanted the speaker, so, IBM just made one casing rather having to spend extra money making different ones. Therefore, a speaker could be added on request.It's kind of like in cars where they make one frame for multiple configurations -- I know the 2009 ford mustangs did that.