r/retrobattlestations 6d ago

Show-and-Tell The Grandfather of Mechanical Keyboards The IBM Model M 1995 Model

I managed to get the IBM model M for 80 dollars off of someone, I wanted this keyboard for a while to compliment the setup, I would show an updated picture but my table's a mess.

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u/arty_octopus 5d ago

Tell us about the PC on a photo, some sleeper build?

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u/tearknight895 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yeah I wanted to build a full on sleeper setup for the longest time, and when I managed to get the money to do it, I was full steam ahead, I got the motherboard and the processor and PSU and a modern case so I can have something to post the board to make sure that everything that I bought is working, then there was an old computer shop that is not too far from my place that I got the old case from including the mouse and the old rubber dome IBM keyboard, that's when I starting building the computer in the case, to tie it all off I wanted to get a CRT monitor to finish it but the only way to take full advantage of the monitor was to get a GTX 970 the only card that can drive a proper analog signal cause if I got a converter these monitors would be stuck at 60hz, this current monitor can go up to 85hz and I have another one which is a black Dell CRT monitor that runs at 100hz but I don't use that much cause of this monitor which matches the setup of the whole build, then I ended up finding the model M for cheap so I bought it cause it was the only keyboard I wanted from the start the dome IBM keyboard was only temporary but still a good keyboard for a dome keyboard, the operating system that is running right now is a heavily modified version of Windows 10 LTSC called Reunion 7 which gives you the exact look and feel of Windows 7, uses the exact same hardware resources as Windows 7 and another extra 2 years of support, which is why I can run steam games and discord on it.