A timeline of IBM keyboard history
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The IBM and family keyboard timeline is an illustrated overview of some of the most important events affecting IBM, Lexmark, Unicomp, Lenovo and Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions keyboards. This includes notable keyboard releases and withdrawals, corporate history like company founding, divestures and change in OEMs, and patents. Due to their relationship and impact on the keyboards around them, host devices such as personal computers, terminals, consoles and typewriters also appear throughout the timeline. 143 events have been recorded for the "show all" versions of the timeline.
[1] The IBM 3270 Information Display System debuts as a family of coaxial cabled terminals originally intended for IBM System/360 or System/370 mainframe computers. At launch, the 3270 series included the IBM 3275 and 3277 Display Stations. The first keyboards of the 3270 family were the Micro Switch SW-based 66-key (pictured) and 78-key IBM 3275 and 3277 Display Station Type A Keyboards. These "Type A" keyboards would be replaced with Model B-based "Type B" keyboards within 2 years of launch.
- snuci - File:IBM 3277 typewriter keyboard - keyboard top.JPG [accessed 2022-12-07]. License/note: public domain.
