IBM Model M with molded keyboard protector - any value?

[I.C. Rhodes]

First time poster here. I have a IBM Model M (P/N 52G9700 November 1993) that is fitted with a molded keyboard protector. This keyboard came with a Techline T-20 Plus, a piece of automotive test equipment that IBM manufactured for General Motors back in the 1990s.

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As you can see, the keyboard protector is yellowed from age and exposure, but it seems to have served its purpose of protecting the keyboard.

I would like to use this keyboard (without the protector). Would removing and disposing of the keyboard protector be destroying some collectible value?

Thanks in advance for your opinions.

[fohat]

"Keyboard condoms" are something of a joke but they do serve a good real function, particularly in a garage.

I would take it off, wash it, and keep it. Hopefully, it has not glued itself to the keyboard due to solvent fumes in the air.

[0100010]

Doesn't Unicomp sell Model M covers like that?

[E TwentyNine]

Doesn't Unicomp sell Model M covers like that?

Here: http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/ProtectiveCovers/CVR

I think. It's hard to tell what they're selling with that crappy website.

[Muirium]

My god, that font. My nightmares use it for their subtitles.



Care to imagine the much anticipated Unicomp SSK wearing some text like that?

[mr_a500]

My god, that font. My nightmares use it for their subtitles.

You have subtitles on your nightmares? How convenient. My nightmares are dubbed in some language I don't understand.

[seebart]

My nightmares have little or no text! But if they did then probably in that Unicomp font!

[Muirium]

The subtitles are often for the same words I can hear perfectly well without them, but with sarcastic errors, and are ruthlessly badly kerned.

They are nightmares, after all.