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Muirium wrote: 26 Nov 2021, 12:00 Palatino's a sterling bloke indeed. Nice Model M you got there!

Thanks! I'd never even tried one before this, only makes me want to try even more vintage boards now

Want to say a massive thanks to user Palatino who welcomed me to the community and even got me going with the cable I needed, thanks again mate thanks to you I am typing on this thing right now!

Clean up time, funny it looked immaculate, but there is a cleaning company sticker on the side, so I think it was just routinely cleaned on the surface.
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Nice. Looks like it still has most of the rivets too. I have the same model from the same year, and it's one of the best feeling Model Ms I've ever typed on. Enjoy!


Yes I got quite lucky I think, when I opened it just a couple of rivets fell out and one plastic tab which I will fix back on. And ...

Weezer wrote: 18 Nov 2021, 17:11 Yeah I see no reason why it wouldn't work. Just needs an SDL cable.

Thanks that's good to hear, can't wait to plug it in

It looks pretty decent! Needs a good clean though. Can't confirm if it works yet with no cable, but it looks promising!
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Palatino wrote: 15 Nov 2021, 22:13 I have a new old stock IBM SDL to PS2 cable I could sell you to save you some time and money ordering a cable from Unicomp (I’m in the UK too).

Hello, yes if you don't mind that would be amazing, I will shoot you over a message, hope that's ok!

Edit: Just saw your message!

The P/N 1389969 indicates that, indeed, this is a PC Model M keyboard, with the English (UK) national layout. It indeed, looks like all its keycaps are original. The keyboard lacks lock lights because it was sold as a keyboard replacement for PC XT keyboards, but it should nevertheless work "out ...

This seems to be a PC keyboard, not a terminal keyboard (the non-split numpad+ and the printed legends on the modifiers and the numpad indicate so). Therefore, this unit should have an SDL port:

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and take a (get ready for this) SDL cable. Unicomp still sells SDL-to-PS/2 cables: https ...

Hello, first post here!

Hoping for some advice, I managed to get a decent looking 1986 Model M (manufactured pretty much on the day I was born too which made me want it even more!) - it's basically parts as it has no cable, but it looks to be a decent UK layout.

Cost me £80 which I am hoping wasn ...