Great/Interesting Finds

[Redmaus]

Just bought this from the seller directly wooo
http://www.ebay.com/itm/322031719241

Could anyone here not bid on that blue alps keyboard? I want it for switches, caps, case and plate. Well, the whole kb really

I'm asking nicely

EDIT: Very well, here is some OC

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RIP my chances

What did you get it for?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AT101W-ALPS-Bla ... SwYlJW4OAy

GB anyone?

[shreebles]

Well, 65$ seems a bit high for a new-ish IBM, with no original logo in 122 form factor.

I don't know. The PS/2 versions are unusual and desirable, as is a non-IBM label (to some people at least). A complete set of caps is a very good thing (especially a straight complete set of F1-F-24 all there!) and may of us consider the blue sub-legends to be the most desirable of all the colors.

I see, to me it always seemed like it was worth less when there was an OEM instead of a "real" IBM logo.
I'm not trying to bash him here, he told me that I would hate his auction and I explained in all honesty what I thought.
And while that price isn't fantastic and I wouldn't buy it for that price, it's perfectly within reasonable limits for eBay, especially nowadays when so many people with little experience rush into the market...
It's a nice keyboard and it looks well kept. So, while it's not a steal, the buyer will get something decent for their money.

I really only buy old keyboards when I think that the price is a steal

[seebart]

Hmm we had that Epson in here before...my kinda board. Shipping is the killer.

[fohat]

I see, to me it always seemed like it was worth less when there was an OEM instead of a "real" IBM logo.

The "real" IBM square metal badge is very desirable to me, the plastic oval label less so.

A 122-key terminal, late iteration with blue label on left, just seems so "meh" that anything else is just as good.
That BOS label is not so swift itself, but some of them can be quite nice.

[seebart]

The "real" IBM square metal badge is very desirable to me, the plastic oval label less so.

A 122-key terminal, late iteration with blue label on left, just seems so "meh" that anything else is just as good.
That BOS label is not so swift itself, but some of them can be quite nice.

Absolutely, the IBM square metal badge Model M is the Model M to own.

[Redmaus]

Yeah, makes model F's even more appealing considering they don't come with the oval badges.

[seebart]

What Redmaus, you prefer model F for the badge? Seriously?

[Redmaus]

yeah who cares about the switches

[seebart]

yeah who cares about the switches

No I don't believe you. My nicest two IBM keyboards have no badge whatsoever...but really nice caps!

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[Redmaus]

Ohh hot damn!

How did you get those? You need to start your own thread about those dude!

[seebart]

Ohh hot damn!

How did you get those? You need to start your own thread about those dude!

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We also have plenty of threads on beamsprings, I don't have one on mine (yet) though!

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[E3E]

You must be very desperate for "alps.tx Type OD1" switches to get this banana:
https://www.ebay.de/ulk/itm/281960070864

Hmm, looks like the case is derivative of the much lauded Acer KB101A case. It's almost exactly the same aside from the details on the top ridge. The bottom is the same and so is the wedge profile. Take it from someone whos been restoring a KB101A for the past 12 hours or so.

There's even a filled in area where there would ordinarily be a recess for the 1 | 2 | 3 protocol switch.

Interesting~

[Chyros]

You must be very desperate for "alps.tx Type OD1" switches to get this banana:
https://www.ebay.de/ulk/itm/281960070864

Hmm, looks like the case is derivative of the much lauded Acer KB101A case. It's almost exactly the same aside from the details on the top ridge. The bottom is the same and so is the wedge profile. Take it from someone whos been restoring a KB101A for the past 12 hours or so.

There's even a filled in area where there would ordinarily be a recess for the 1 | 2 | 3 protocol switch.

Interesting~

It most definitely isn't one though xD . Moreover, the KB-101A case design, unchanged, was used for the 6011 series, 6311 series, and maybe even the 6511 series, so never buy one purely off of the case shape! But yeah, this one was obviously at least based on it .

[Scarpia]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AT101W-ALPS-Bla ... SwYlJW4OAy

GB anyone?

Bumping this one in case people missed it. Tempting if I were in the U.S.

[E3E]

You must be very desperate for "alps.tx Type OD1" switches to get this banana:
https://www.ebay.de/ulk/itm/281960070864

Hmm, looks like the case is derivative of the much lauded Acer KB101A case. It's almost exactly the same aside from the details on the top ridge. The bottom is the same and so is the wedge profile. Take it from someone whos been restoring a KB101A for the past 12 hours or so.

There's even a filled in area where there would ordinarily be a recess for the 1 | 2 | 3 protocol switch.

Interesting~

It most definitely isn't one though xD . Moreover, the KB-101A case design, unchanged, was used for the 6011 series, 6311 series, and maybe even the 6511 series, so never buy one purely off of the case shape! But yeah, this one was obviously at least based on it .

Haha, of course it isn't, and yes I know about the design being used for the other Acer models; it's specifically the Acer 6311-K that has the KB101A case design. The particular 6011 model that uses it is hard to pin. I have a 6011 that was made in Malaysia and does not look like the KB101A. I would imagine perhaps that the models made in Taiwan likely have the KB101A case and were likely the earlier models.

I'm assuming that the molds were just reused or altered for certain companies in Taiwan. I can't imagine someone going through all the work of cloning the KB101A's case shape.

EDIT: There was also this weird one from NEC, which is Japanese, but... Maybe they all sourced their cases from the same place?



Ya know, for being something that is so distinctive, you'd think it was a unique design, but it isn't.

Having a KB101A now; I'm really not sure how I feel about the design.

[E3E]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AT101W-ALPS-Bla ... SwYlJW4OAy

GB anyone?

Bumping this one in case people missed it. Tempting if I were in the U.S.

I'd need one if only to salvage some SKCM Blacks for the sake of having spare springs for the SKCM Green switches in the later model Xerox boards I have. Alps seemed to want to go uniform after a certain point with pretty much every switch having a 70g spring weight across the board, so I'm pretty sure that bamboo SKCM Black and bamboo SKCM Green use the same springs.

Is it okay to call them SKCM Lime now?

[webwit]

http://link.marktplaats.nl/m1029826408

[Scarpia]

That lot from Marktplaats looks promising... Unfortunately my Dutch is a bit rusty, so I couldn't figure out what the seller wants for them.

(actually my Dutch is not so much rusty as imaginary; knowing Danish and German means I recognize roughly a third of the words, and my brain turns into a hyperexcited Donkey from Shrek, jumping up and down going "WE CAN DO THIS!" - but no. I try to make it through a sentence or two, and twenty seconds later I'm lost)

[hypkx]

That lot from Marktplaats looks promising... Unfortunately my Dutch is a bit rusty, so I couldn't figure out what the seller wants for them.

(actually my Dutch is not so much rusty as imaginary; knowing Danish and German means I recognize roughly a third of the words, and my brain turns into a hyperexcited Donkey from Shrek, jumping up and down going "WE CAN DO THIS!" - but no. I try to make it through a sentence or two, and twenty seconds later I'm lost)

It isnt that great: rubber dome model m, lasered keycaps on cherry MY keyboards, one rubberdome ibm keyboard, one rubberdome tulip keyboard

[Wodan]

One of the lasered Cherry boards has thick PBT in ANSI US. Isn't that nice ?

[hkrak]

Yellowed but cheap G80-3000HGDs:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281961250486? ... EBIDX%3AIT

[ohaimark]

This was posted earlier.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DSI-KB-8861-SMK ... 1799394901

It's actually MX switches -- likely Blues. The company's website says that the next model, the DCK-101, shares the same design; the DCK-101 I had for a while used MX Blues.

Also... An update. 7 days to go and bids are still trickling in.

[Blaise170]

Don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but I decided not to buy it so I'm removing it from my watch list. Eleven black Cherry MX keyboards.

www.ebay.com/itm/361493214051

[ohaimark]

Don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but I decided not to buy it so I'm removing it from my watch list. Eleven black Cherry MX keyboards.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/361493214051

If those are doubleshots it might be worth a GB. I don't know enough to say for sure, though.

[Blaise170]

Green Alps Zenith: http://www.ebay.com/itm/121920167533

[gogusrl]

Looks lasered POM to me but even as doubleshots, who would want this ?

[Dra]

If those are doubleshots it might be worth a GB. I don't know enough to say for sure, though.

Pad printed or lasered, in the 4th pic you can see the legends fading on the function keys

[ohaimark]

Yuck. I didn't look that closely because I wasn't interested.

As to the Zenith, that's a reasonable deal. Someone will snap it up fast!

[Blaise170]

AEK: http://www.ebay.com/itm/222048812858

Looks lasered POM to me but even as doubleshots, who would want this ?

Would be a good source of well broken in Blacks, keys aren't as interesting.

[seebart]

IBM Terminal 5291

http://www.ebay.de/itm/IBM-Terminal-529 ... SwPc9W0fZz

G80-3000HGD/00

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-Tastatur- ... OSwxp9W4co~

G80-1501HAD

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-G80-1501H ... SwwpdW3I9W

Cooler Master CM Storm NovaTouch

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cooler-Master-CM ... SwP~tW3zwq

IBM 1390584

http://www.ebay.de/itm/IBM-Tastatur-Typ ... SwB4NWvdBK

Apple Extended Keyboard II

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Apple-Extended-K ... SwP~tW3dq7