[geeks] IBM laptop keyboard?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Is it the entire keys that are missing, or only the keycaps?  I have plenty
of spare keycaps...

Peace... Sridhar

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 22:58 Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:

> Okay, it's a long shot...I don't suppose any of you has an IBM laptop
> keyboard suitable for a ThinkPad T43p looking for a home?  Not for a
> T43; the two are mechanically incompatible.  I'm looking for the one
> that uses three, not four, mounting screws.  I've got a T43 as well,
> and would happily swap keyboards, except the T43 keyboard has too many
> mounting posts and two of them are positioned wrong - and I don't know
> whether it's compatible enough to work even aside from that.
>
> The T43p keyboard I've got has been damaged; it's missing all of the Z
> key and much of the right-arrow key.  But the machine is otherwise
> relatively nice (well, for a peecee); in particular, it's got a lovely
> crisp 1600x1200 screen.  I asked my usual computer supply house and
> they said that through them, if one is available at all, it would cost
> multiple hundreds....
>
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