Local IBM Industrial Model M Find

JP! · 05 Jul 2017, 03:49

Today was a great holiday and a great IBM day as well. I was able to score this sweet Industrial M and an AT keyboard. This keyboard comes from a retired engineer who got this keyboard new, directly from Allen Bradley (very expensive). He had ordered these kind of keyboards for work projects and liked them a lot, which is why of course he ordered one for his own use. In his career he saw the decommissioning of a nuclear facility where all of the office equipment was put into containers designed to contain radioactive waste. Not sure if the equipment was shredded prior, but I like to think that in a 1000 years from now (or whenever the stuff is ok) there will be some awesome finds

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elecplus · 05 Jul 2017, 04:24

You get lots of nifty finds! Kudos to you!

seebart · 05 Jul 2017, 09:22

Brilliant find that Allen Bradley indy. So your the "space pirate"?

hypkx · 05 Jul 2017, 09:23

The industrial case with the custom square patch is really cool, I like also your blue XT from the other thread. Congrats to the nice finds.

ramnes · 05 Jul 2017, 16:15

Very nice! I think this is the first time that I see that badge.

snuci · 05 Jul 2017, 16:52

Definitely a cool find and interesting variation on the indy M. Never hurts to find an IBM PC AT keyboard either

Great find.

Zed · 05 Jul 2017, 17:01

As a vintage electronics fan, I am totally blown away by that AB board. For those who may not know what Allen Bradley did, they made these:

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The gold standard of resistors for decades. Kind of like the Model M of electronics components I guess.

emdude · 05 Jul 2017, 19:02

Congrats on the finds! That SDL connector is pretty nifty, would be neat if that were the standard one used for Model Ms.