deskthority

Hi community! glad to write a post for you guys again!

This year is a very good one, I managed to get between last week and yesterday a good loot of IBM boards with terminals.

The loot has:
* IBM 3278 75-key with plastic top and bottom case.
* IBM 3278 75-key with metal top and plastic bottom case, a rare hybrid sold to a very good friend of mine.
* IBM 3278 75-key with metal top and bottom case.
* IBM 3278 87-key with APL orange key set and colored extended pad section, sadly it lacks two keys and the spacebar, luckly for me most important keys are present, metal top & bottom case.
* IBM 3278 87-key with APL black key set (rare?), metal top & bottom case.
* 2 IBM 3278 terminals.
* IBM 5251 terminal.
* IBM 5251 keyboard.
* IBM Model M Screen Reader/2 keyboard manufactured by Lexmark in USA.
* BTC 5100c (nobody cares )

Here some photos of the loot:

Keyboards:


IBM 5251 terminal:


IBM 5251:


IBM 3278 terminals (sorry for the bad picture, I didn't have enough time to take them out of the box and take better pictures):


IBM Model M Screen Reader/2:




IBM 3278 87-key with APL orange key set and colored extended pad section:




IBM 3278 87-key with APL black key set:




IBM 3278 75-key all plastic (this one has more photos because I believe is less common?):








IBM 3278 75-key all metal:


BTC 5100c:


That's all, will be appreciated if you can give me more information about those APL boards and also the plastic IBMs.

PD: For the moment I'll keep this boads, I have no plan of selling.

Thanks for read!

Incredible find, thank you for sharing!

Incredible find indeed! Congrats!

What a find - congrats!

Very nice indeed! Does the “Screen reader” (numpad) use the same detachable connecting cable as a regular Model M?

Tripleshots… and red APL tripleshots… now there's a find! Whatever dragon you outfoxed to find these had good taste.

some people really never get tired of winning Great find!

I especially appreciate the Spanish layout APL. APL is incredible but APL in your own layout is magnitudes more special

Palatino wrote: ↑

19 Sep 2021, 11:43

Very nice indeed! Does the “Screen reader” (numpad) use the same detachable connecting cable as a regular Model M?

Yes, it has the same SDL detachable cable.

Awesome. If you ever want to sell it, I’d be keen. Something about having more blank surface area than keys appeals to my warped mind.