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Offline Elrick

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What exactly is this in the world of IBM keyboards......?
« on: Sun, 19 August 2012, 20:34:41 »
This is a first for me, I have never seen this type of Model M/F type of keyboard before.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-KEYBOARD-104-KEY-DATA-ENTRY-P-N-09F4231-/110784583539?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item19cb469773

It looks like some kind of rubber membrane but the key samples shown by the seller look very different to what I have seen.  Can anyone shine any light as to what exact key switches it uses, because it is an old IBM afterall.

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What exactly is this in the world of IBM keyboards......?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 19 August 2012, 21:02:35 »
Anyone near Cumming, Georgia?


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Re: What exactly is this in the world of IBM keyboards......?
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 20 August 2012, 06:53:35 »
Rubber dome; I have one.

Same interface as other terminal keyboards, easily adapted with Soarer's converter.

To sort of expand on the switching mechanism: there are two metal plates similar to a Model F, with individual slider mechanisms mounted to the top plate, and individual domes per key with a membrane below to pick up the keystrokes. It doesn't feel especially great.

Oh thanks for that.  So IBM did make some rubbish then.

It's a shame because the keys themselves looked complicated and fooled me into thinking it was some kind of "SPECIAL" keyboard perhaps with some unique features similar to an early version of a Topre like switch.  But it's no way near that switch.
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Re: What exactly is this in the world of IBM keyboards......?
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 20 August 2012, 12:23:08 »
hehe

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Re: What exactly is this in the world of IBM keyboards......?
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 20 August 2012, 12:34:12 »
It's nice to see we are all mature here... not.  ^-^
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Re: What exactly is this in the world of IBM keyboards......?
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 20 August 2012, 16:23:59 »
So IBM did make some rubbish then.
Fortunately, it was made by Honeywell. :D
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Re: What exactly is this in the world of IBM keyboards......?
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 20 August 2012, 23:43:10 »
It's supposed to be pretty good for a RD.
Note IBM also made the same layout as a model F. The "space unsaver" or 1387033. I have always wanted one.

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Re: What exactly is this in the world of IBM keyboards......?
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 21 August 2012, 07:10:08 »
To up the maturity ante here, Cumming is indeed a very unfortunate name.

Worse, Forsyth County itself (a northern ex-urb of Atlanta) was, until very recently, one of the most blatantly racist counties in the country, hosting Ku Klux Klan parades on main street into the early 1990s, if I remember correctly.

That abruptly collapsed in the late-1990s housing boom, and now, at least, the southern third of the county is now hardly distinguishable from other Atlanta suburban areas.
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Re: What exactly is this in the world of IBM keyboards......?
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 24 August 2012, 13:55:54 »
It's supposed to be pretty good for a RD.
Note IBM also made the same layout as a model F. The "space unsaver" or 1387033. I have always wanted one.

It will crush your heart, then, to know that I know of a parts reseller that scrapped possibly two of them.

I was a little ticked off.

Broke my heart  :(