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Offline Zen

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What is this ? IBM 1978 ??
« on: Wed, 15 December 2010, 11:14:46 »
I got this today ..
It's HEAVY, made of metal, has a wonderful clicky sound and awesome
keycaps .. Even the blank Escape-key is double-shot !!
Somewhere inside is stamped '1978' and my old IBM-engineer friend
says it's a IBM-made keyboard but doesn't remember much else about it .
So, if you know anything about it, I'm all ears !











After cleaning :
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Offline mr_a500

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« Reply #1 on: Wed, 15 December 2010, 11:22:59 »
That's just a crap keyboard. You don't need it. I'll take it off your hands for a few bucks. :wink:
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Offline Phaedrus2129

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« Reply #2 on: Wed, 15 December 2010, 11:23:52 »
They make good collectors items, and some people call beam springs the best switches ever made.

Good luck getting it to work on a PC though.
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Offline msiegel

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« Reply #3 on: Wed, 15 December 2010, 11:25:12 »
yay, it's a beautiful ibm terminal board :D

maybe international version of 3278?

webwit would be proud.
EDIT: here are 3278 pics
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Offline godly_music

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« Reply #4 on: Wed, 15 December 2010, 12:43:49 »
I remember these. We used to load 'em up in choppers and drop them on Charlie back in 'Nam.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #5 on: Wed, 15 December 2010, 12:48:02 »
Quote from: godly_music;263549
I remember these. We used to load 'em up in choppers and drop them on Charlie back in 'Nam.


Winner.  Got my lawl.
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Offline Zen

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« Reply #6 on: Wed, 15 December 2010, 13:22:14 »
Quote from: Phaedrus2129;263520

They make good collectors items,
and some people call beam springs the best switches ever made.

Good luck getting it to work on a PC though.


Thanks..
I've been air-typing on it for an hour and this is the best
feeling keyboard I have ever typed on..
To bad I can't see what I'm typing :)
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Offline msiegel

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« Reply #7 on: Wed, 15 December 2010, 13:38:12 »
Quote from: Zen;263568
this is the best feeling keyboard I have ever typed on


aw man... *envy*

i gotta get back to work on my model f conversion project, stat!
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Offline mr_a500

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« Reply #8 on: Thu, 16 December 2010, 06:59:14 »
Quote from: godly_music;263549
I remember these. We used to load 'em up in choppers and drop them on Charlie back in 'Nam.


I'm going back to 'Nam - see if I can rescue a few. I bet they're being held in POW camps. They probably don't even know the war is over. With any luck, the rescue will go just like in Rambo... only clickier.
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Offline Findecanor

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« Reply #9 on: Thu, 16 December 2010, 13:31:40 »
I would like to try myself some beam-spring switches to find out if they really are the bees' knees or not ... and if they are, build a M15 out of it. :-P

It has German layout. Could this be the same keyboard that I once bid on over at German eBay, but lost? ...
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Offline Zen

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« Reply #10 on: Thu, 16 December 2010, 14:04:46 »
If 'once' is recently..
Yes, it could be .... And they are !

I also think the MASSIVE casing, the rock-solid mounting of the switches and  the beefy caps play a major role in how the package feels ..
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Offline PRISONER 24601

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« Reply #11 on: Thu, 16 December 2010, 14:20:07 »
spacebar is a little shiny- just throw it out.
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