Brand new, old stock IBM keyboards

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Tue May 8 23:59:15 2001

>On Tue, 8 May 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
>> > These are the heavy original keyboards, PN 1503206. The badge at the top
>> > left says IBM Personal Computer, below it is a double column of 10
>>function
>> That's the PC and PC/XT keybaord AFAIK. It won't work on a PC/AT. The
>> connector has the same pinouts (well, the same signal names), but the
>> data protocol is rather different.
>
>BTW, for the XT, IBM changed that badge by adding the letters XT.
>Therefore, these would be the "RARE" PC ones.

Considerably more rare to me this morning, some &&(%% grabbed my stack of
them at the auction site. I am pretty sure of who it was, nice lady,
fingers coated in glue. What completely upsets me is that these are almost
certainly worthless to her, and will get thrown out once looked
over/tested. Maybe I can talk to her tomorrow, sigh.
Received on Tue May 08 2001 - 23:59:15 BST

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