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3. Sorry Matt, these are junk

Tue Sep 17, 2019, 03:39 PM

Sep 2019

If you can find some place that will take them for free, you will come out money ahead. Most places these days charge to dispose of this sort of scrap. I have given away several color monitors (very old) and I just toss the keyboards.

I have a stack of extra keyboards as spares in case one of mine fails. They were free. I used to work for a company that was setting up a server room full of computers. All of them were connected to a KVM Switch (Keyboard - Video Monitor) and so none needed the keyboard. They left stacks of these outside the server room for anyone to take.

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Questions for vintage computer geeks, and a question for more current geeks. [View all] matt819 Sep 2019 OP

Bad news on the keyboard: Girard442 Sep 2019 #1

So. . . matt819 Sep 2019 #2

Sorry Matt, these are junk RainCaster Sep 2019 #3

I have a lot of old stuff too. to get rid of it, I do a Craigslist curb alert and mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2019 #5

With all the old stuff, it may be a bit more than just getting the connectors to fit... TreasonousBastard Sep 2019 #4

The Applewriter was so ubiquitous, I suspect that there will be a driver for that. mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2019 #6

Try pinouts.ru if you're making your own adapters. eppur_se_muova Sep 2019 #7

I have maybe five IBM XT keyboards in a box buried under other crap in my garage. hunter Sep 2019 #8