Advanced Technology Keyboard

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IBM XT 83-key keyboard. With the 10 function keys on the left, from the early 1980s
Model M keyboard . In 1985, IBM introduced the Enhanced -101 keyboard layout , which is still popular in the PC sector with minor deviations (e.g. through the addition of Windows keys ).

The Advanced Technology Keyboard is a keyboard layout from IBM .

The successor system to the IBM PC / XT ( Extended Technology ) was the PC / AT ( Advanced Technology ), also from IBM. While the first models still had the same keyboard layout as their predecessor, a larger and expanded keyboard layout came out from 1985 (101 instead of 83 keys, 12 instead of 10 function keys and now in a row above the number keys), which is known as the AT layout for short .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Doran Hewitt: IBM rolls out new PC . InfoWorld, September 10, 1984, pp. 11f. ( Online at Google Books )