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Hi all. I need an original IBM keyboard for my old glourios PC/XT. If someone has one of them to sell me, and from Europe, I'll be very happy. Giacomo

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Wish you lived in the US, i have such a Keyboard and no PC/XT to use it with!

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Mmmh, I think I'll come to live there so Wink

. I'm just going to do a passport

Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Netherlands

Weel I have one, but its German layout...

Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 377 Location: Stuttgart, Germany

@Giacomo: You might consider the US keyboard. From what I understand, air shipping is below $40 for a keyboard and economy shipping ( takes a couple of weeks instead of days and is not insureable ) is even cheaper.

Look here:
http://pe.usps.gov/text/pub51/51tblc.html#vnameref_20 ( Italy is zone 6 )

So for a 10lbs package, it's $37 for airmail or $23 for economy. It's not cheap but I don't know what you would be willing to pay for such a keyboard.
But then I don't know if a keyboard is just 10 lbs. Those things tended to be quite heavy in the 1980s. I would eigh one to check but I don't even own one Wink

Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 61 Location: sunny AZ

a genuine IBM PC keyboard weighs 6 pounds.

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Thanks all. I have another question, does IBM done different keyboard layouts (german, italian, US, ....) for the PC and PC XT ? When I had my first XT (20 years ago) I think its keyboard was US, but I bought it here in Italy.

Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:12 pm

Many IBM keyboards came for different languages, the easiest to "reconfigure" are the later AT units with the removeable key caps