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Shark's IBM wiki

u/SharktasticA announced his IBM-family keyboard wiki with the aim of covering niche models.

KBD.news
Published January 27, 2022

The WIKI is available at: https://sharktastica.co.uk/wiki

In Summer 2021, I started work on my own personal IBM keyboard wiki on my website aptly called Shark’s Wiki. One motivation was the uncertainly surrounding Deskthority and its wiki after their buy-out, but I’ve been wanting to deliver properly referenced content on my site for a while now – SharktasticA.

Shark's initial aim was "to tackle niche or seldom attempted stuff before". For example, the Model M4 buckling sleeve keyboards and keypads, and a comprehensive list of all Model M variants and their defining features.

Clicking around for a while, you may stumble upon relics like the authoritative IBM 3215 printer-keyboard-tower thing (in the top picture) from the early 1970s.

Published on Thu 27th Jan 2022. Featured in KBD #63 (source).

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