I was a summer intern at IBM Kinston NY, where the PC hardware was being developed. I remember being told by one of the engineers that IBM had decided to use standard components for the PC, except for the keyboard.<p>The original keyboard was so bad (he said) it was also replaced, I think in 1981 or 1982. Apparently the group in charge had internal disagreements leading to a compromise design.<p>(I have no proof of this and my memory is going, so any corroboration or rebuttal would be welcomed.
>> IBM announces the 3161 and 3163 ASCII Display Stations, serial-based terminals in the IBM 3101 lineage that were capable of emulating various third-party terminals. They sported the first terminal-specific IBM Enhanced Keyboards, which typically have an extra key over ANSI and ISO PC-style Enhanced Keyboards, and ASCII-style ones like 316X's often uniquely have line drawing symbols on their numeric keypads.<p>And of course you'll be playing rogue.<p><a href="https://sharktastica.co.uk/resources/images/terminals/Wyatt8740_3161.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://sharktastica.co.uk/resources/images/terminals/Wyatt8...</a><p>(Nethack came out two years later)
Keyboarding was taught in my middle school using Selectrics and my high school was equipped with Model Ms on Model 50s (oh, IBM).<p>Those two sublime instruments of typing superiority made it so that when I type I type so quickly that people have thought I was pantomiming on several occasions.<p>As far as I'm concerned IBM solved the text input problem over a half century ago.
I used an IBM keypunch machine in ~1985 to write COBOL programs in high school. We would wrap our completed deck of cards in a rubber band and drop the deck in a cardboard box. We would get the deck back with greenbar output the next day.<p>I don't see keypunch machines here.<p>Edit: The 029 looks familiar, but it's been a lot of years.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch</a><p>I also regularly use a Model M when I tether my laptop.<p>This is also missing the Selectric typewriters. I used a Datamaster with an accounting package a couple years after high school.
Omission from the timeline: SK-8855<p>Though they have a page for it: <a href="https://sharktastica.co.uk/wiki?id=lenovo8855" rel="nofollow">https://sharktastica.co.uk/wiki?id=lenovo8855</a>