[Ebay] IBM NOT Industrial Model M 8/29/90

[boost]

Will be watching this.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Genuine-IBM-Clicky-Keyboard-1391401-Model-M-8-29-90-/290989993359?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item43c05aed8f

[fohat.digs]

I don't think that is industrial - just a bad photo.

Don't industrials have numbers different from 1391401 and black labels?

[oTurtlez]

I saw this a while ago in my search for the birthday board. Tis not an industrial IIRC, just a bad shadowed picture.

[esoomenona]

Tis not an industrial IIRC, just a bad shadowed picture.

^

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

Yeah definitely doesn't look like an Industrial.

Ask for some better pictures, just to find out for sure.

[esoomenona]

You can tell it's not from the pictures. If it were, the color of the case would be roughly the same color of the indicator LED overlay. Also, the IBM emblem is white, so the case wouldn't match that color.

[Aer Fixus]

I'm pretty sure that picture wasn't taken with a camera. It looks like a scan...

Another thing to note (on top of all the other evidence), from what I can find, industrial models didn't seem to come with a grey logo (except for the M13 where the grey logo was a different shade than the case, and from the pictures I can find, were only ever made after the change to the blue text version of the logo).

Plus, (even in a black and white photo, which I'm not convinced this isn't) the led indicator panel would appear lighter than the rest of the keyboard, not darker.

But, I'm not saying anything anyone here didn't already know. I just feel sorry for the people paying industrial prices for a lightly/unused M.

Also, it was in SHRINKWRAP!?! "For years"? I hate seeing sellers on eBay do this, but one sitting around like that? The top and bottom row of keys are probably in need of some work.

The poor soul who opens the box when this thing gets home and realizes what he's paid for...