Bull-branded RS/6000 Lexmark Model M (P/N 1399240)

[sharktastica]

It's interesting indeed. Bull is a French company that at this point in time was (probably amongst other things) selling rebranded IBM RS/6000 workstations... and this is the keyboard for one. You can see a cross-reference between Bull RS/6000 model numbers and the original IBM machines here. It's basically your average IBM RS/6000 Model M with a fancy badge and some supplementary stickers and branding.

Being an RS/6000 keyboard, this Model M has a speaker inside. It's otherwise a standard Model M besides the (noticable in real life) greyer than usual lock-light overlay.

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[clickykeyboards]

Cool model M keyboard find.

"Bull keyboard" and "model M" reminds me of the following from early days (2006) of YouTube/model M videos.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRrqQdMfYKw[/youtube]