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From: ORCUTT@cc.utah.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: *Real* IBM keyboards for sale
Message-ID: <65750@cc.utah.edu>
Date: 26 May 90 17:10:57 MDT
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I got a real IBM-PC in 1981.  It had a real IBM keyboard.
The keyboard lasted about a year.  IBM said they couldn't
repair it; I had to replace it.  It seems that if you take
the back off, it goes sproing and cannot be put back
together again, like Humpty Dumpty.  So, I replaced it
alright--with a Keytronic.  The keytronic had newrly
the same layout as the "new" IBM 101-key unit and I have
used it for 7 years so far  I took it apart and cleaned it
once when one of my kids was using my computer table to paint
on and dumped poster paint down the keyboard.

Maybe the 101-key unit from IBM is better than the original,
at least it has a reasonable layout, but I wouldn't take
either the orignal PC keyboard or the AT keyboard if they
gave them to me...