IBM type M keyboard

$50 on Ebay..or more.

Gunner

I was digging out a monitor to give away and found an IBM type M keyboard with a PS/2 mini din plug. What's it worth?

Stormin Mormon used his keyboard to write :

IBM type M keyboards have a feel of their own that's why they go for more than $10 on Ebay l-)

But they dont have IBM type Ms.

If you have never used one....you are pissing down your leg.

And around a corner, too. :)

ABout 20 years ago I sold a whole pile of them to a IBM authorized business computer service company at a small hamfest. People were sneering at them, and telling me the prices were a rip-off, that used keyboards were only worth 50 cents. His jaw dropped. Then he bought all of them, and the new spare cords without haggling.

You like mushy Chinese keyboards? I have over 100 of that grade, that I give away.

Ayup...I look for them and when I find them in second hand stores and used computer places..Ill snag em and bring em home.

The replacements..are not cheap

A somewhat similar keyboard..

IBM type M keyboards have a feel of their own that's why they go for more than $10 on Ebay l-)

You like mushy Chinese keyboards? I have over 100 of that grade, that I give away.

And have no tactile feedback.

One thing is USB keyboards are really nice but when you are at the DOS / Bios level you will need the PS/2 mini Din plug.

I keep one around the house in a box just for that. You have to have a fancy Bios that you can enable USB once you have the old one attached.

I used to build from scratch all sorts of laptops/towers/servers as my product line was the memory on board from Simm to DIMM to SoDim with Dram/Fast-page/ripple/DDR/DDRII - retired before DDRII came out.

Mart> Stormin Mormon used his keyboard to write :

Mine has survived many cups of coffee, drops to the floor and other abuse. I can't read some of the keys anymore. And, I still like the feel.