New subject: Vaxstation 3100 M38

24 Jul 2001

I picked up an IBM keyboard at the Village des valeurs on saturday.  It
has nice tactile feedback, no vanity keys and takes up less desk space then
my aged Keytronics.  Cool.  

However, it "doesn't work".  When I plug it in and start the computer, all
3 leds go on, then NumLock goes off and nothing responds as I would expect
(caps, scroll, del to get into bios, ctrl-a for adaptec scsi monitor)

I was under the impression that there were 2 types of keyboards for
clones: PC/XT and AT keyboards.  This keyboard has a PS/2 style miniDIN-6
connector (though I now notice it doesn't have the rectangular plug in
the middlish that my other keyboards do), so I assumed it would be AT and
therefore compatible with modern motherboards.  No luck :(  

Looking on the bottom I see :
Part No : 1395300                               IBM
ID No   : 2117313                               
Date    : 12-05-1992              (C) IBM Corp. 1984
Plt. No. : WP1  Model : M2
Made in USA
[bar code]
1395300112117313

So, do I have a defective keyboard?  Or is this not even a PC keyboard but
for some other piece of equipement?

-Philip

IBM-PC keyboards