IBM Model M Rescue II
Posted: 21 Feb 2020, 00:21
Some time back, I rescued a few IBM Model Ms from impending destruction at an industrial plant. Naturally, I worked with someone inside the plant to get the keyboards to me because they had literally no value. Back then, I offered a fair value and ended up with the IBM Model M Rescue.
Today I thought I'd show you a smaller space saving "IBM Model M II" rescue. This lot had an additional 8 IBM Model M keyboards but the person at the plant decided to try to sell those locally. I offered a fair value for the four IBM Industrial SSKs you see below plus he threw in a white Unicomp that simply says "Model M" on the bottom becaue I like the look and I need a rubber dome for the office (because we are moving to an open space and a Model M just won't do there. I can't find the IBM model for this at the moment but I figured I'd show some pictures. These still need to be cleaned up and I will take pictures of the rear labels (two are Lexmark and two are IBM). All are 41G3600s.
Today I thought I'd show you a smaller space saving "IBM Model M II" rescue. This lot had an additional 8 IBM Model M keyboards but the person at the plant decided to try to sell those locally. I offered a fair value for the four IBM Industrial SSKs you see below plus he threw in a white Unicomp that simply says "Model M" on the bottom becaue I like the look and I need a rubber dome for the office (because we are moving to an open space and a Model M just won't do there. I can't find the IBM model for this at the moment but I figured I'd show some pictures. These still need to be cleaned up and I will take pictures of the rear labels (two are Lexmark and two are IBM). All are 41G3600s.
- Box as it arrived
- IBM SSK Rescue - box as it arrived.JPG (354.23 KiB) Viewed 4323 times
- Opening box
- IBM SSK Rescue - Openning box.JPG (376.34 KiB) Viewed 4323 times
- Move the Unicomp out of the way
- IBM SSK Rescue - Move the Unicomp out of the way .JPG (415.93 KiB) Viewed 4323 times
- The keyboards
- IBM SSK Rescue - The keyboards.JPG (364.72 KiB) Viewed 4323 times
- Group shot - IBM Industrial SSKs
- IBM SSK Rescue - IBM Industrial SSKs.JPG (367.19 KiB) Viewed 4323 times
- Group shot with previous Industrial SSKs
- IBM SSK Rescue - With previous Industrial SSKs.JPG (435.78 KiB) Viewed 4323 times
- Group shot - stacked
- IBM SSK Rescue - Stacked.JPG (284.37 KiB) Viewed 4323 times
- Group shot - stacked side view
- IBM SSK Rescue - Stacked side view.JPG (247.51 KiB) Viewed 4323 times
- Front Profile
- IBM SSK Rescue - Front profile.JPG (283.15 KiB) Viewed 4323 times
The one with the paper label below the space bar needs clean up but even that is great as they were all barely used. Think of the ones that were in a Data Center. They were only used for troubleshooting and they were otherwise locked up. The one that had it the roughest was the Mopar SSK and that is pretty good inside and out with some light scratches on the back. 
I'm getting glasses. 
