I am really new to mechanical keyboards, i came across this forum searching for information about the keyboards so i decided to make a thread to ask you some stuff.
I recently bought a IBM Model M (Model number 1391401) from ebay. It arrived a few days ago and some of the key caps are really weird.
First the ESC button has a huge RESET written below the ESC, the Alt keys are grey color but the engravings are green. Last but not least it's the F9 button, the F9 by itself is really misplaced (making it really funny when you look at it besides the other keys
) and it has a F21 written on the side. Is this something common with the IBM models ? I came across some older posts where some people had green Alt keys and blue Ctrl keys and they said they were used by the air force. Anybody knows where this keyboard has been previously used ? On to my next question. I opened the board up and cleaned the keys and the outer cases. What do you guys use to clean the insides of the board, between the keys. It's really dirty and dusty with mud like stuff everywhere.
Final question, how do you guys stabilize the circuit part of the keyboard ? Whenever i try to plug the cable in the keyboard the circuit get's always pushed in.
Thanks a lot guys, sorry for all the mistakes. As you can tell English is not my native language
. I'm guessing it shouldn't be that hard to find some of them. I don't know what to do about the circuit, once i plug in the cable i can pull it slowly back out so it's not that bad, but as you can guess i would prefer if this wasn't the case.
