Hello!

According to the images, that keyboard has the same chips as the first

https://ardent-tool.com/keyboard/Model_M.html#PS2_PCBs
http://ohlandl.ipv7.net/keyboard/Keyboard.html#Model_M_PCB

Not sure which of the 2 copies of that website is the original one.

It has a 4x4 block with the keys

 1 2 3 A
 4 5 6 B
 7 8 9 C
 * 0 ? ?

The two ? keys actually are unmarked grey keys, others are white.

Right of the 4x4 block, there is a double height HELP key on top
and a double height STOP key below it.

"Despite using a PS/2 cable, the Screen Reader Keypad is not a
typical PS/2 device. It was intended to be connected through
either a PS/2 mouse port or a PS/2 port on a drop-in ISA expansion
card for PC/XT and PC/AT systems called the IBM Screen Reader
Adapter (P/N 57F1588, assembly P/N 57F1587, FRU 33F4842)."

The page also links to

https://sharktastica.co.uk/wiki?id=modelmsrk

which gives more details. There, the keys below 9 and C
are listed as # and D respectively, which is plausible.

Regards, Eric

Hello.
Here I found information about the special keypad.
https://deskthority.net/wiki/IBM_Screen_Reader_Keypad

It still insist that it worked on DOS, but as I told you, I had never seen
it running.

Regards.





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