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Not sure if this is of interest (and you may have seen it already!) but there was also a 2nd Northgate FK-555 that sold in the last week:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/276269235738

Also has some funny yellowing!

https://www.subito.it/informatica/tasti ... 089412.htm

Why is this suddenly worth an extra 170 euros? seems like a pretty egregious flip.

As a heads up for all, there's been some new information in regards to our benevolent overlords over at OneCommerce(the owners of DT). Below is a summary of some of the information that can be found online, all available through PUBLIC LinkedIn accounts and Companies house, the register for limited ...

Bump!

Its not a 327x either - Its the module from an IBM 5382. The seller was selling the caps seperate from the board, and those were 5382 keycaps.

Great work as always! C01 is definitely one of the cooler model M variants (totally no bias at play at all)

Can anyone help track down the taobao link for this controller? I emailed the creator but was just sent a new picture of the listing, but I'm not able to track down the listing from the image.
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https://h5.m.goofish.com/item?id=656161512104&spm=widle.12011849 ...

Muirium wrote: 25 Sep 2022, 21:01 Aye, quietening F is defo not my thing. Anyone ever tried metal flippers?

I have! The Polish Model F AT clone has them. It is one of my favourites.

Gouty wrote: 14 Sep 2022, 17:31 Hope to see you at the next one!

Thank you for organising everything! I had a lot of fun for my first meetup, and it was good to show off some of the buckling spring clones I've amassed over time

I will definitely be there next year!

I've been thinking about bargaining and buying an original IBM PC Keyboard straight from Eclipse as a best of both worlds solution


Maybe it would be better to buy this "Original IBM PC AT Keyboard, Thoroughly Cleaned and ANSI Modified with Soarer's Converter"? It seems more interesting to me ...

I believe I own this board, or at least a version of it

Mine is a Futuba MA inverse mount, caps are doubleshots.

The below picture is from the listing when I bought it.



Hope that helps!

Thats very helpful, thank you! These can come with other Fujitsu switches so I was wondering if the P/Ns were the same even if the switch was different. This gives me hope that the P/N dictates the switch you get (just need more pics of other FKB2930s to confirm)

Sorry to resurrect this thread - do you have a clear photo of the part number on the outside of the case? If you were looking at the back of the case its the sticker on the left.

The part number should look something like this:
N860-2930-XXXX (XXXX being the last part of the part number).

Thanks!

New_User1 wrote: 06 Aug 2022, 13:01 Any thoughts?

https://imgur.com/a/BdaFU4Y

Futuba MA inverse cross mount wiki/Futaba_MA_series. The caps are the giveaway (allthough seeing the slider also gives it away!)

Not in hand yet! Plus I'll leave it to Penguin to do the write up on that one

Updated!

TomTrev wrote: 03 Jul 2022, 18:01 Would you consider an IBM branded m4-1 or?

Nah I'm only interested in the Lexmark ones for now. Sorry!

AT&T acquired! Added Lexmark Branded M4-1

My guess is that the 6 is a mistype, as the board has the correct FCCID for the M0115.

The "C" most likely stands for Canadian, based on the additonal legends it has.

Overall, its a neat board!

thefarside wrote: 23 Jun 2022, 03:07 I’ve never heard of a Chicony buckling spring. Can you elaborate on that one?

its a pretty undcocumented buckling spring. I am only aware of mcmaxmcmc and one other having one.

Bump + some tweaks to my wants!

What's going on with this keyboard? Seller claims that it is not a Model F, but it certainly looks like one.
Normally I'd ignore such a claim, but I'm a bit intrigued since I can't find anything on the parts number, and the inside of the shell looks a bit unusual (in other words: the clickbait ...

Man, that FLS is awesome looking!

Wow that cleaned up super well! Looks awesome chief

Any idea what this could be?



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Looks like high profile Alphameric foam and foil (the wiki only features pictures of the low profile version, but there is another example with a lot of similarities to the ...

JDL acquired! Updated with some fujitsu stuff I'm looking out for

It is an IBM M122, but a later model. Last example I saw of one of these was that it was produced Unicomp for IBM, so most likely it was made towards the very late 90's and very early 2000s.

This is the last example I saw of one of these models with the exact same branding (but rather yellow ...

It’s so bizarre that unicomp seems to love its black cases but not make black printed caps.


From my understanding, they would have to outsource it as they most consistent way of doing it for IBM WoB caps was pad-printing, which unicomp does not have on site.

It's a shame they did stop, but ...

Figured I'd put together a list of things I'm looking out for :D

Wants:
- 5576-003 Numpad
- Dinokidz


Acquired:

- JDL Topre Board
- AT&T Buckling Spring
- Chicony Buckling Spring
- Fujitsu Clicky Leaf spring
- Oki Tactile Gourd Springs
- Elektronika MC7004


Please drop me a DM if you have ...

Oh my, buying the guts for a project could be fun, but I really shouldn't add more on to the list!


2013-2015 was a classic era. I came here a good bit before XMIT, and I remember very clearly feeling I'd just missed the golden days, as well! Getting an SSK was a real struggle.


Getting into ...