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Offline LiquidEvilGaming

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IBM Model M identification ?
« on: Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:31:53 »
So i am looking at a model M on Craigslist for cheap money but the woman who owns it does not own a keycap puller and has NO idea what i am talking about...All she was able to provide was the following.

Part # 1370477 
Fru # 60G0814
DateL 7/21/95

Anyway to tell this is a real model M or not going from the above info?  I know there are a few RubberDome Model M's out there in existence.
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Re: IBM Model M identification ?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:34:01 »
Should be BS. Just google the part #...
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Re: IBM Model M identification ?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:34:41 »
"Part # 1370477"
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Re: IBM Model M identification ?
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:46:49 »
Buckling spring, one part stem+key cap, SDL cable, drain channels. See the Model M Wiki on Wikipedia.

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Re: IBM Model M identification ?
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:54:20 »

I know there are a few RubberDome Model M's out there in existence.


Rubber dome Ms have part numbers beginning with "7"
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Re: IBM Model M identification ?
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:57:24 »
Buckling spring, one part stem+key cap, SDL cable, drain channels. See the Model M Wiki on Wikipedia.


Good lord there is a Wiki for Model M's alone?  ....i really need to check wiki more often.

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Re: IBM Model M identification ?
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 24 April 2016, 15:57:47 »

I know there are a few RubberDome Model M's out there in existence.


Rubber dome Ms have part numbers beginning with "7"

Good info thanks! Was not aware it was only ones starting with 7.
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Re: IBM Model M identification ?
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 24 April 2016, 16:37:17 »
are the rubber dome Model Ms capacitive? i read that they feel quite nice, so i got kinda curious
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Re: IBM Model M identification ?
« Reply #8 on: Sun, 24 April 2016, 16:41:34 »
No.
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Re: IBM Model M identification ?
« Reply #9 on: Sun, 24 April 2016, 17:35:21 »
are the rubber dome Model Ms capacitive? i read that they feel quite nice, so i got kinda curious

Model Ms are not capacitive.
But I do not believe that the electrical switching method, in and of itself, necessarily has anything to do with feel.
Model Ms are simply deeply cheaped-down Model Fs, with 3 sheets of mylar with printed traces instead of a PCB at their core.
"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30