IBM XT (Model F) vs Industrial XT (Oak)

vivalarevolución · 04 Dec 2016, 18:54

These are two keyboards I always to compare in person, thank you for sharing!

Mr.Nobody · 21 Dec 2016, 00:19

I thought industrial was just another color scheme, I never knew it's flat inside. Waiting for your Model M industrial vs Normal thread. Does industrial Model M have a flat plate inside ?

E TwentyNine · 21 Dec 2016, 13:15

This XT industrial internals are not buckling spring, it's a completely different mechanism.

An industrial M is just a different color, everything else is the same.

Mr.Nobody · 21 Dec 2016, 22:35

E TwentyNine wrote: This XT industrial internals are not buckling spring, it's a completely different mechanism.

An industrial M is just a different color, everything else is the same.

I see, to me it's not worth spending 4 times money just to get another color scheme...

Tangtawan · 21 Dec 2016, 22:41

Mr.Nobody wrote: I thought industrial was just another color scheme, I never knew it's flat inside. Waiting for your Model M industrial vs Normal thread. Does industrial Model M have a flat plate inside ?

The Industrial M and regular M is completely the same, the only differences are shell color and logo.

Engicoder · 21 Dec 2016, 23:05

snuci wrote:
Ratfink wrote: The plastic is kinda yellowish, and the original XT is painted beige.
Agreed. You can sort of make that out in the screw holes on Photo #6. You can see the yellow in the screw hole of the normal XT. In the industrial one, it remains grey/green throughout.

Some of the XT's have a grey plastic as the base material.

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