Hello
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:53 pmHello everybody,
My name is Tom, I'm a software dev in Auckland. I'm a lot younger than the hardware I have an interest in (my first computer was a lovely C64 C -- the white thing, not the fondly remembered brown breadbin).
I've mainly signed up in the hope I can find somewhere locally to buy some early IBM mainframe/minicomputer bits -- really, I'm interested in the keyboards. I type daily on a 122-key Model M, but I'm desperately keen to find an IBM beam spring keyboard (the mechanism they used on basically anything before the Model F and Model M). The keyboards of the IBM 5251 and IBM 3278 (and oddly enough the Displaywriter) are classic examples. I plan to build a USB converter board so it can be put to daily use.
Anyhow, thanks for letting me join the forums, I've already read some interesting stuff.
Cheers.
My name is Tom, I'm a software dev in Auckland. I'm a lot younger than the hardware I have an interest in (my first computer was a lovely C64 C -- the white thing, not the fondly remembered brown breadbin).
I've mainly signed up in the hope I can find somewhere locally to buy some early IBM mainframe/minicomputer bits -- really, I'm interested in the keyboards. I type daily on a 122-key Model M, but I'm desperately keen to find an IBM beam spring keyboard (the mechanism they used on basically anything before the Model F and Model M). The keyboards of the IBM 5251 and IBM 3278 (and oddly enough the Displaywriter) are classic examples. I plan to build a USB converter board so it can be put to daily use.
Anyhow, thanks for letting me join the forums, I've already read some interesting stuff.
Cheers.