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One More Rare M: One with a speaker (1394540)

Posted: 08 Feb 2013, 21:42
by E TwentyNine
Searching around, again the only source I've seen with a similar one is clickykeyboards.

Model 1394540 Gallery

It could use a cleaning but works great.

Any information on how rare these are?

Posted: 08 Feb 2013, 21:46
by Icarium
Quite the entrance coming here and posting all those epic pictures. :) Hello! ;)

Posted: 08 Feb 2013, 21:48
by rodtang
These aren't as rare as the other ones though ;)

Posted: 08 Feb 2013, 21:59
by E TwentyNine
I didn't think this was quite as rare, but I didn't know what it was until an hour ago. My posting of the other two has lead me to go through my stash of M's. Looked into this one and saw the speaker, so I opened it up and took pics... :)

I have two more whites with a missing back label that I think are relatively early models but I've only opened up one of them.

Three standard 1391401's, and three M-13's: one black, one white, one industrial new in the box that has never been hooked up to anything.

Posted: 08 Feb 2013, 22:01
by Icarium
O_o
Where are you getting this shit? :D

Posted: 08 Feb 2013, 22:07
by webwit
Rare but not as rare as the earlier ones. Also got one with a speaker.

Posted: 09 Feb 2013, 17:14
by E TwentyNine
From what I can tell webwit, don't you have at least one of everything?

Posted: 09 Feb 2013, 17:28
by Jim66
First ever model M I bought had a speaker - it was NIB as well.

Posted: 09 Feb 2013, 18:19
by HaaTa
I have one with a speaker as well.

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Posted: 10 Feb 2013, 22:57
by daedalus
They were keyboards from IBM's RS/6000 workstations. Less common than the PS/2s, but not exactly rare either.

Posted: 10 Feb 2013, 23:19
by webwit
Mine is an IBM Soft Touch. Greased springs...

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