Can you post some photos?

Hmm would have to borrow my sisters camera I suppose I can do that later I guess.

Those IBM's may need somekind of special memory? I remember once seeing 30p memory modules which had these WEIRD looking chips on them, looked like 6 aluminium little boxes instead of regular memory chips

like this?

DonutKing wrote:

like this?

Exactly like that!
Why are they so weird anyway?

I have no idea what's special about them, they're just one of many parts I've accumulated over the years. Apart from the odd appearance I thought they were just standard 512KB SIMMs until I saw your post above.

Is the keyboard original
the IBM keyboards are indeed the keyboards of the gods and thats official

I was thinking it might need special memory instead of normal memory. It doesn't exhibit any beeps though which is a bit worrying.

I don't have the keyboard just the PS/2

Davros wrote:

Is the keyboard original
the IBM keyboards are indeed the keyboards of the gods and thats official

I actually hated mine... it was TOO noisy 😁 😁 😁

IIRC it looked like this and sounded like a typewritter

Are you using parity SIMMs? I had a motherboard that required parity memory, and if you put non-parity SIMMs in there it wouldn't boot, beep or do anything.

Unless it really does require those funny looking ones, but I've only got 1MB of them (2 sticks).

The PS/2 30 requires proprietary IBM SIMMs... they have a different pinout than regular 30-pin SIMMS. They don't have to be the metal can type ones, though, any of SIMM with the right pinout should work. FWIW, any IBM-marked SIMM on eBay is likely to be the correct type.

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Davros wrote:

Is the keyboard original
the IBM keyboards are indeed the keyboards of the gods and thats official

I actually hated mine... it was TOO noisy 😁 😁 😁

IIRC it looked like this and sounded like a typewritter

Those "original" Clicky Keyboards are quite expensive. The sound might feel irritating, but for some persons it's nice to have that. Those kind of keyboards produce key clack sounds that we usually hear in films 😀

OOT: I had one of these -- not the original though, but a modified combo AT/XT keyboard -- but with AT slot and of course, I couldn't use it on my Intel Core PC 🙁

They are just random SIMMs I had, I guess I can go look on ebay for some IBM SIMMs. I can't see a need for a huge amount of memory so surely it shouldn't be too expensive right?

Cant you just get an adapter from AT to PS/2 that's what I do. Won't it be depressing when one day there will be no PS/2 ports and I'll be forced to use USB

Would something like this be what I want?
http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-37F2016-30Pin-Simm-Mo … =item4ce3be0988

awergh wrote:

Cant you just get an adapter from AT to PS/2 that's what I do.

I have a feeling the old XT keyboards, which are also buckle-spring I think [they clack nicely anyway] and are really heavy and have less buttons need a special adapter to use on later pc's. Not sure if some early model m's do too.

I believe that's called haptic feedback. They use it on phones too for touchscreen/button clicks to make them more tangible and pleasing.

Those old IBM keyboards are really loud. I don't know if you could use one at night without waking people up in other rooms 🤣