IBM-PC keyboards

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Thu Jul 26 10:30:51 2001

liste skrev:

>I was under the impression that there were 2 types of keyboards for
>clones: PC/XT and AT keyboards. This keyboard has a PS/2 style miniDIN-6
>connector (though I now notice it doesn't have the rectangular plug in
>the middlish that my other keyboards do), so I assumed it would be AT and
>therefore compatible with modern motherboards. No luck :(


>Looking on the bottom I see :
>Part No : 1395300 IBM
>ID No : 2117313
>Date : 12-05-1992 (C) IBM Corp. 1984

Doesn't it seem queer that the keyboard has got a "PS/2" plug while made
several years before the introduction of the PS/2? I suppose it's not a PC
keyboard, since there were no PCs around at that time into which it AFAIK
could be plugged.

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