I guess I'm hoping for a little bit of a discussion on this topic, and maybe it will give Ripster a little bit of something to add to the IBM WIKI, maybe.
I love IBM model M keyboards. Hell, most of us do. I especially love the tactile and auditory feedback these keyboards provide. Some have other favorites, but the model M is where in my opinion keyboards became the most standardized. IBM was the manufacturere that made almost all of the current keyboard layouts today commonplace. And, apart fom laptops, even new keyboards by different manufactureres place certain keys and key clusters in pretty much the same place in their designs.
Here is my point though. Silver label, Gray label and blue label all have their own particular part numbers and apart from the blue labels, all were manufactured by IBM, Blues, by Lexmark. My particular prefference is for gray label models. I don't know why, it's just what I prefer. All of the model M's I have, or soon will, are gray labels. Currently, I have 3 1987s, a 1989 and will have a 1992 within a week or so.
So aside from manufacturer, and a somewhat lighter steel back plate, what are the primary differences between these models?
