A timeline of IBM keyboard history

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. 144 events have been recorded for the "show all" versions of the timeline.

Sources

ASK. Admiral Shark's Keyboards original content. License/note: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

  1. IBM - Improvements relating to typewriter keyboards [accessed 2025-04-01]. License/note: provided by Google Patents, figures used under fair dealing.
  2. IBM - Combined mouse and trackball [accessed 2025-03-21]. License/note: provided by Google Patents, figures used under fair dealing.