deskthority

Bought it with a reasonable price five days ago and received the package today. It's a Japanese ibm model m variant with short spacebar. Uncleaned and some keys stuck like shit, but I think still worth sharing some photos here.

the front has dust but still acceptable, will be fine after clean. front side has rotation componet? I have no idea what's this used for, any idea? scratches on the back, could see 5576-C01 model no here. Cord cut off, its using ps2 protocol originally iirc, so easy to remap the layout after making a new wire.


Thanks for comments.

A guy on the model m subreddit bought one of these at the same time you did and his got crushed!

The Broken Unicorn: 5576-C01 IBM Japanese Trackpoint II keyboard https://imgur.com/a/Ql8WK9W

funkmon wrote: ↑

20 May 2020, 05:21

A guy on the model m subreddit bought one of these at the same time you did and his got crushed!

The Broken Unicorn: 5576-C01 IBM Japanese Trackpoint II keyboard https://imgur.com/a/Ql8WK9W

Poor... Feel the pain when opened the package and saw this.

I spent half an hour to clean the cases and know how fragile they are, must be very careful to do the job. Now put them outside for dyring...

front side has rotation componet? I have no idea what's this used for, any idea?

It allows you to stand the keyboard upright:



Why would you want to do that? The explanation I've seen is that desk space in Japan is at a premium, and that doing this allows you to push your keyboard out of the way and use your desk for something else. I cannot verify for certain that is the intended purpose though.

I don't have these any longer, but used it like this, and as I remember it, it was pretty stable:

daedalus wrote: ↑

20 May 2020, 13:35

front side has rotation componet? I have no idea what's this used for, any idea?

The explanation I've seen is that desk space in Japan is at a premium, and that doing this allows you to push your keyboard out of the way and use it for something else.

Oh, that's way to save space when living in space-limited room, nice design seemingly.

webwit wrote: ↑

20 May 2020, 14:06

I don't have these any longer, but used it like this, and as I remember it, it was pretty stable:

Yeah, its stable, but soon geting wrist acid after tried typing in this way for a little bit. I'll test again after I assemble it.

5576-C01s:

webwit wrote: ↑

20 May 2020, 14:06

5291 Bigfoots: Ah, a challenger approaches

Cleaned and looks much better now, but sold it quickly today.

This is the most crisp plastic case I have ever seen, another keyboard using the same material i can recall is ibm 3178/blue buttion, terrible restoraion memory.
Highly not recommend to chase this!!!

what a beaute!