What is this keyboard?

akkk44

01 May 2022, 16:19

https://imgur.com/a/7L4hqYf
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It has a 122 layout and a IBM logo, but I don't think it looks like any model M varints.
Could anyone tell me what it is ?

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Myoth

01 May 2022, 16:21

it is what it says on the tin. most definitely a M122, the later kind. I love that logo to be honest!

akkk44

01 May 2022, 16:37

Myoth wrote:
01 May 2022, 16:21
it is what it says on the tin. most definitely a M122, the later kind. I love that logo to be honest!
I couldn't find the Part number of this keyboard thou... Any clue?

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Crizender

01 May 2022, 17:43

It is an IBM M122, but a later model. Last example I saw of one of these was that it was produced Unicomp for IBM, so most likely it was made towards the very late 90's and very early 2000s.

This is the last example I saw of one of these models with the exact same branding (but rather yellow) :https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-IBM- ... 5260248999

akkk44

02 May 2022, 10:06

Crizender wrote:
01 May 2022, 17:43
It is an IBM M122, but a later model. Last example I saw of one of these was that it was produced Unicomp for IBM, so most likely it was made towards the very late 90's and very early 2000s.

This is the last example I saw of one of these models with the exact same branding (but rather yellow) :https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-IBM- ... 5260248999
Thanks a lot!

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sharktastica

02 May 2022, 18:39

Many Unicomp-made very late IBM Model Ms had that sort of branding. For example, my 2004 IBM Model M13 with its lock-light variant of the simple IBM logo design:

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akkk44 wrote:
01 May 2022, 16:37
I couldn't find the Part number of this keyboard thou... Any clue?
I'm not sure what this keyboard's exact part number is. But given its Type III ("battlecruiser"-style) 122-key Model M and its "RJ-45" plug, it was most likely an IBM InfoWindow keyboard of some sort and it likely shared a part number with a keyboard that had been produced for the previous decade before it. For example, P/N 1394167 (US/Canada IBM 347x InfoWindow keyboard) was in production by the early '90s during the IBM/Lexmark era and as late as 2002 during the Unicomp era using the same part number despite the difference in branding.

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