Keyboard Converting Guide

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The Keyboard Converting Guide is designed to help produce a tailored keyboard adapting or converting guide based on your answers to a series of questions asked to identify the keyboard and its connectivity. Please answer each question below with the answers that best apply to your keyboard.

1a) Select connection type

Please select the type of connector your keyboard has. Please refer for the Keyboard Connectors topic for more information on keyboard connectors. Please keep in mind third-party keyboard connectors may look different, and even IBM and family could use several varieties of each.

5-pin 180° DIN
for IBM PC/XT & PC/AT compatible keyboards

5-pin 240° DIN (metal jacket)
for IBM 3179, 3180, 3193, 3194, 3205, 3270 PC & 3290-2 terminal keyboards

5-pin 240° DIN (plastic jacket)
for IBM 316X, 3191, 3192, 3196, 3197 & 3206 terminal keyboards

6-pin Mini-DIN
for IBM PS/2 compatible keyboards

8-pin Modular
for IBM 3151, 3152, 347X & 348X terminal keyboards