I found a weird IBM model F XT.

supamesican · 10 Dec 2016, 01:21

First post so I dont know if those will show up right.

http://imgur.com/a/9Fa5s So here is a link to the album.

Yeah its got a weird badge on it, and a weird connector, but it works just fine in a soarer's converter and I'm using it right now. But beyond that I dont know much about it.

webwit · 10 Dec 2016, 01:25

You need to add .jpg to those images, the urls currently lead to imgur pages with the image.

emdude · 10 Dec 2016, 01:28

Is this from that recent eBay auction? Very neat, especially since only 3500 were made.

supamesican · 10 Dec 2016, 01:36

@webwit, thanks that got it working!

@emdude, yup! Thats why I want to know about it. It feels and sounds a little more crisper than my old broken normal f XT(maybe it was used less, I know I was the second collector to own the other one). I'm hoping to learn more about it.

Engicoder · 10 Dec 2016, 04:46

Looks like a variant of the System 9000 keyboard
wiki/IBM_System_9000_keyboard
photos-f62/ibm-system-9000-keyboard-and ... ?hilit=ibm

supamesican · 10 Dec 2016, 19:26

It certainly looks similar, but I do wonder why the badge was changed. Unless the latter model ones where just like that.

micrex22 · 14 Dec 2016, 04:55

supamesican wrote: It certainly looks similar, but I do wonder why the badge was changed. Unless the latter model ones where just like that.

'IBM Instruments' was probably a separate division like 'EduQuest' that operated for a bit releasing products infused with some of the regular line, ultimately being dissolved when it wasn't profitable anymore / or just a flat out bad idea.