Author Topic: Can anyone recognise this IBM Keyboard? (Read 3610 times)

leos · « **on:** Sat, 23 January 2010, 10:53:46 »

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and her is a PC - Terminal Chicony Electronics Rabbit 286 with keyboard

Vintage IBM 5150 XT with an model F? keyboard

another ibm oldie (maybe an f?)

today seams to be a ibm keyboard day / Ibm XT model f?

and for our mac lovers a fully working APPLE LISA 2/10 - DUALBOOT OS system with LOS / MacWorks XL

ch_123 · « **Reply #1 on:** Sat, 23 January 2010, 11:02:56 »

Oh, a Model 80... I've always wanted one of those. I'd bid on it if it weren't for the lack of Paypal support.

The keyboard looks like very much like an M2, but it's hard to be sure from the photo.

And those Chicony Rabbits used Blue Alps. In fact, the switches in the keyboard I'm typing on originally came from one.

leos · « **Reply #2 on:** Sat, 23 January 2010, 11:53:13 »

BTX Tastatur Terminal Fe Ap 90-2 a trully call agent board

TELEX TELEKOM "TELAXY" TERMINAL PRINTER NIB --is the keyboard a cherry one?

Thinclient Queme --dont know what keyboard is this

Bundeswehr Computer HEROS, 19-Zoll PC, Modding Basis

Heros metal keyboard

ricercar · « **Reply #3 on:** Sat, 23 January 2010, 12:06:55 »

That terminal phone keyboard is truly cool.

sixty · « **Reply #4 on:** Sat, 23 January 2010, 15:45:53 »

Quote from: ch_123;153226

And those Chicony Rabbits used Blue Alps. In fact, the switches in the keyboard I'm typing on originally came from one.

Not all of them have blue ALPS. In fact I had three of the Rabbit keyboards and only one of them had blues (which are now in your SGI like you said

. The others had complicated whites (without ALPS logo too though). You are very likely to end up with good switches from the Rabbit keyboards either way.

ch_123 · « **Reply #5 on:** Sat, 23 January 2010, 15:51:21 »

That military computer is pretty awesome. I'm pretty sure those Marquardt keyboards were being sold on their own a few weeks back.

sethstorm · « **Reply #6 on:** Sat, 23 January 2010, 16:41:10 »

Quote from: ch_123;153226

Oh, a Model 80... I've always wanted one of those. I'd bid on it if it weren't for the lack of Paypal support.

They're a strange beast in that they're 386DX's, limited to 16MB memory, and have a memory hole. They will run NT 3.1 & 3.51 if you really want to exercise your willingness to write/rewrite the boot sector so that it'll run.
Half tempted to just sell the thing off as-is / working.

Now, the only microchannel I work with is a loaded up RS/6000 7012-39H. 128MB ram, (24bit?) framebuffer, 4GB disk and AIX 5.1.

ch_123 · « **Reply #7 on:** Sat, 23 January 2010, 16:45:18 »

Yeah, my interest in the big PS/2s was somewhat dampened when I saw these -

Unlike a system with 16MB of RAM and Windows NT 3, I could actually make proper use of an AIX workstation, even if only as an SSH terminal.

keyb_gr · « **Reply #8 on:** Sat, 23 January 2010, 17:21:33 »

Quote from: leos;153243

TELEX TELEKOM "TELAXY" TERMINAL PRINTER NIB --is the keyboard a cherry one?

Seems to be a special board based on a G80-1800.

D-EJ915 · « **Reply #9 on:** Sat, 23 January 2010, 18:12:30 »

there is a version of AIX for PS/2s it's 1.3

ch_123 · « **Reply #10 on:** Sat, 23 January 2010, 18:20:40 »

I knew that. Apparently it's obscure and not all that great. The other thing is that the RS/6000 machines support lots of RAM which makes them more useful for stuff.

Besides, when it comes to old computers, only the really obscure stuff interests me. Old x86 stuff is boring. PS/2s and PC/XT/ATs are the exceptions before of their historical significance. Sun stuff is also boring because of it's ubiquity. I'd find some Macs interesting.

sethstorm · « **Reply #11 on:** Thu, 28 January 2010, 17:57:42 »

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Yeah, my interest in the big PS/2s was somewhat dampened when I saw these -

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Unlike a system with 16MB of RAM and Windows NT 3, I could actually make proper use of an AIX workstation, even if only as an SSH terminal.

Had one of those huge ones before it got cannibalized for parts. If it's the 570, parts will interchange with most 7012-3xx's. Ended up with a 7012-39H with 128mb memory and a more-than-decent framebuffer, as well as a lot of good fans, cables, and connectors.

sethstorm · « **Reply #12 on:** Thu, 28 January 2010, 18:00:57 »

Quote from: ch_123;153296

I knew that. Apparently it's obscure and not all that great. The other thing is that the RS/6000 machines support lots of RAM which makes them more useful for stuff.

Besides, when it comes to old computers, only the really obscure stuff interests me. Old x86 stuff is boring. PS/2s and PC/XT/ATs are the exceptions before of their historical significance. Sun stuff is also boring because of it's ubiquity. I'd find some Macs interesting.

I'm in that situation with one of the "smaller" monoliths. 44P-270, 4x375MHz modules, and about 14GB of memory. It'd be 16 if the platform wasn't so picky about what goes on the memory boards(pickier than Rambus).

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