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Offline Touch_It

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name this IBM keyboard
« on: Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:11:20 »


Saw this posting on craigslist in my area for $50.00  Their only contact is phone :( (I hate talking on the phone, even to family).  Was hoping someone could identify this from the poor picture.

edit:  They say the computer is a 3270.


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Re: name this IBM keyboard
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:12:31 »
It looks like an old IBM 8088. My mother had one...I wish I still had that keyboard...
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Re: name this IBM keyboard
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:32:04 »
Saw this posting on craigslist in my area for $50.00

Buy it. That is a beauty, even if the keyboard is a bust. The strange yellowing makes me think that it is not IBM, I can't really remember any true blue gear that I have bought that has yellowed.
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Re: name this IBM keyboard
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:34:30 »
Seems like a good deal but honestly I wouldn't even know what to do with the computer.  You bring up a good point about the yellowing though.  The cord now that I look at it doesn't look very IBM'ish either.


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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:37:25 »
I got MSDOS 6 to run on an 8088 when I was much younger.
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Re: name this IBM keyboard
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 23 October 2014, 20:46:07 »
I got MSDOS 6 to run on an 8088 when I was much younger.

Awesome! I remember when the hard drive was only 256 KB! lol
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« Reply #6 on: Fri, 24 October 2014, 02:40:52 »
Awesome! I remember when the hard drive was only 256 KB! lol

What model hard drive was that?
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Re: name this IBM keyboard
« Reply #7 on: Fri, 24 October 2014, 10:10:06 »
I got MSDOS 6 to run on an 8088 when I was much younger.

You made me feel young, lol.


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Re: name this IBM keyboard
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 24 October 2014, 12:37:20 »
the profile/color of that keyboard does not look like it's from the original IBM manufacture which was thicker and same color as the pc.