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Re: IBM Model M idustrial? or just bad color balance?
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 20 November 2014, 12:26:21 »
plots twist, it has no keycaps since they are not pictured :eek:

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Re: IBM Model M idustrial? or just bad color balance?
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 20 November 2014, 12:37:32 »
Pretty sure it's just bad white balance. I have a 42H1292, and this looks just like it, if the photo were taken with a potato, in bad lighting.

The label is likely correct, and to confirm, it almost certainly appears to have the non-detachable PS/2 cable.
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Re: IBM Model M idustrial? or just bad color balance?
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 20 November 2014, 13:12:14 »
If the white balance were off, then the foam must be severely discolored.
I have seen less of this type of foam get discolored than I have keyboard cases.
Yet the cable also appears to have this same tint.  Take a look at the tape, it has the same yellowed tint that I have seen in other NIb vintage boards, if the color balance is off in the photo then that color would have also shifted. 

I vote that the colors in the image are more or less true to life.

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Re: IBM Model M idustrial? or just bad color balance?
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 20 November 2014, 20:24:37 »
I don't know, but that's a very good price if it is industrial!
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Re: IBM Model M idustrial? or just bad color balance?
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 20 November 2014, 20:33:38 »
Pretty sure that this is a regular model m. You can tell by looking at the second picture.

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Re: IBM Model M idustrial? or just bad color balance?
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 20 November 2014, 20:52:25 »
its regular not model M
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