I picked this up today from a guy who replied to one of my ads on Craigslist. I am more of a keyboard guy but did not want to pass this up. The unit powers on and comes with the upgraded 640k of memory! Now I just need to clean it up a bit and get a floppy so I can try booting this thing. I believe this keyboard has brown and green Alps SKCL Compact switches.
wiki/Alps_SKCL_Compact
IBM 5140 PC Convertible With Keyboard
- JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
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- ALPSの日常
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: some kind of alps keyboard
- Favorite switch: clk: SKCM blue, lin: SKCL cream, tac: SKCM cream
- DT Pro Member: 0188
You are correct, JP! SKCM brown and compact greens for the thinner keys. Usually these boards are quite clean as well since typically they are stored with the screen covering the keyboard, thus preventing too much dust from getting in the switches/on the mounting plate!
Another great find, dude. Congrats. Let us know if it boots up!
Another great find, dude. Congrats. Let us know if it boots up!
- JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0194
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I have a stack of floppies and a usb floppy drive at work. I might give FreeDOS a try if I can't find a floppy with DOS on it.
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- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: SolidTek ASK-6600C
- Main mouse: Logitech
- Favorite switch: unknown
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It should work on this computer since you have 640K of memory:JP! wrote: ↑I have a stack of floppies and a usb floppy drive at work. I might give FreeDOS a try if I can't find a floppy with DOS on it.
http://www.freedos.org/
- JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0194
- Contact:
It's been a while but I decided to get this working. Just needed some elbow grease and a little know how.
Added some swag
Added some swag
- JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0194
- Contact:
I was a local coffee shop today, a shop much larger than a Starbucks and I counted no less than half a dozen MacBooks. Not a single PC so that was how I got the inspiration for applying the Apple sticker, plus I had a few of these stickers from when I got an iPhone.Dingster wrote: ↑man this looks awesome. now take it to starbucks with that logo