Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:51:25 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Corti <cc at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Subject: RE: USB Model M I think this is not the classic IBM keyboard we're talking about. *The* classic keyboard has the part number 139140x where x differs from country to country. This is what's on the label of my keyboard (a rather new one, the oldest one I have dates from 1987 and came along with my 8550-021). There's no IBM logo on the bottom, only the oval grey logo on the top left. 1391403 55-0749972L 1386716 EC 528557 EC 528693 1992-06-23 MANUFACTURED IN UNITED KINGDOM (C) IBM CORPORATION 1985 PRINT BUILD TEST INSP 14A 60A (sig.) (sig.) Christian PS: The US version of the keyboard is the model 1391401. -------------Reply: Probably no point in arguing with someone who, because his particular keyboard does not say "Model M," therefore insists that "IBM *never* called the (Model M) keyboard a Model M." Presumably even if I sent him a picture of one of my 1391401s plainly labelled "Model M" he would not be convinced any more than he is by others on here and the extensive Wiki entry. Oh well...