Help - need "minus" key for IBM "clicky" keyboard

[drkphibr]

Restoring an old IBM keyboard and am looking for the numeric keypad minus (-) key (the darker gray color). This is a model M keyboard, type 1391401 from ~1987. Anyone have one other than the auction sites?

[pluke the 2]

you know its like 2013 right?

[mrkubota]

I've got one that's missing the F9 key cap, but otherwise working you can have... you pay shipping for it...

[drkphibr]

you know its like 2013 right?

LOL, that's what makes this a bit more challenging and easier said than done. For most, this era of hardware is complete junk (by today's performance standards as well as "smaller and lighter" is a better design focus), but for others, it's that vintage era of bygone computing that reminds me of my younger days...

[Excitable Boy]

When I was at the high point of my PC geekdom a few years ago, building gaming PCs and overclocking, I had a classic IBM clicky. There is nothing more solid, but my wife threatened to kill me if I kept keeping her up posting on forums and gaming into the night. They are NOT quiet!

[the86d]

Windows key? I don't need no windows key, as I have been working on these without Windows keys for about 20 years, and just switched to Pear Linux at work.

I would clean it up, and buy a used one off of eBay for parts, or buy a current new one:
Black & Grey: http://pckeyboard.com/page/Classic/UB40416
Beige & Grey: http://pckeyboard.com/page/Classic/UNI0416
Both are PS/2

I own about 5 of these (2 are close variants), and I cannot use a rubber-dome keyboard, even if my K/Boards wake people as I type this. I close the bedroom door, and pull the computer/reloading room door mostly closed before I type ANYTHING.

The ONLY way these die is if you spill something in them, like beer... trust me.

2 Of the older ones I currently use have just recently, in the last few months, lost the Num-Lock light.

[the86d]

Oh, be aware that there are 2 major types that I have:
One with replaceable tops, and one with replaceable "keys", themselves.

Both seem to work about the same.

I actually got one from a fellow student in one of the classes I was taking, and also got hooked up with a Laserjet III those many years ago and the keyboard is still rocking on my desk (aside from the flickering NumLock light).