Model M Question

[RBithrey]

Hey all,

Just a small question for all you lovely people - I'm trawling around on eBay on my usual Model M hunt and this cropped up:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392336002007 - it seems pretty odd, and when searching up the model code on a spreadsheet I found, there's no real matches.

It looks like it's from a terminal, but I've got no real clue as to where this has come from.

Any help would be wonderful.

Thanks,

Reece.

[RBithrey]

Also, just to clarify, this is a broken board.

[Muirium]

I had (a fully working) one quite like it:


viewtopic.php?f=62&t=6407

Broken how? It might just need Soarer’s converter for its terminal protocol, or indeed simply a regular PS/2 Model M controller board swap.

[RBithrey]

I mean, the listing is a corporate one if that makes any difference, and just reading the listing, it says they couldn't get hold of a converter to test it.

It looks in pretty good nick to be honest.

[depletedvespene]

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Just a small question for all you lovely people - I'm trawling around on eBay on my usual Model M hunt and this cropped up:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392336002007 - it seems pretty odd, and when searching up the model code on a spreadsheet I found, there's no real matches.

It looks like it's from a terminal, but I've got no real clue as to where this has come from.
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You must be pretty new into this hobby, because the keyboard you link to is one of the most common terminal Model M keyboards out there; it's quite notorious because of the graphics on the numpad, too; the part number is 1392595, a number almost as common as 1391401.

Anyhoo, its RJ-45 plug is a tell-tale sign of it being a terminal model. So is the fact that there are two 1U keys where the numpad+ would go if this was a PC keyboard. The legends are clearly for terminals (although, at the very least, the caps in the numpad look like replacements). Finally, the listing itself says "Part of a POS terminal set up previously, …".




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