deskthority

The Videowriter 250 has brown Alps.

The Videowriter 350 has these:

Well I'm sure you can guess what I would prefer!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WYSE-WY-60-TerM ... 1936000968?

Black Alps, clearly.

ramnes wrote:

lolpes wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/com ... _w_trades/

If I didn't have one I would be all over this! look at that number row!

Damn, I always thought that those green on grey keycaps were dye-sublimated, just like other TA typewriters keycaps...

they are, check wiki. depends on the typewriter model.

rddm wrote:

ramnes wrote:

lolpes wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/com ... _w_trades/

If I didn't have one I would be all over this! look at that number row!

Damn, I always thought that those green on grey keycaps were dye-sublimated, just like other TA typewriters keycaps...

they are, check wiki. depends on the typewriter model.

But those are double-shots!

There are the 2 kinds, doubleshots and dyesubs, even mixed of both (many blue on grey sets have a double shot red on grey backspace)

Ail wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/WYSE-WY-60-TerM ... 1936000968?

Black Alps, clearly.

"Maybe if I say alps in the title it'll sell really well like all of those other alps boards..."

seebart wrote:

Hypersphere wrote: @HzFaq: Yes, brown Alps and dye-sub PBT keycaps.

Speaking of brown Alps, I just won this on eBay for $0.99:

VW250.jpg

This is the first time I have won an eBay auction for such a minimal bid.

Was that Blaise170's auction then?

Cherry stuff (G8x 1000):
https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anz ... 6-225-2421
https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anz ... 4-228-8618

A couple of low start AEKIIs for Europeans:
Ends today: http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Vintage-Apple-Ex ... 1805490127
Ends Wednesday: http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Vintage-Apple-Ma ... 1887347903

For some reason I'm averse to ISO AEKs even at those prices. That thin Enter key, and those longer left-side modifiers just look weird to me.

002 wrote: Another 5576-003 popped up on Yahoo Auctions:
http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d188868744

5576-003.jpg

EDIT: Oh, and the tenkey: http://page11.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/a ... n169800540

In the end this went for 142000 yen. Simply too much for me.It seems blue alps inflation is spreading to other stuff.

I was proxy bidding on that for someone... About $900 over their max.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-IBM-ori ... 1758770851

rubberdome, but I would get it in the US just for that badge if nothing else, and opportunity to bash it of course

Cyrillic legends:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Clicker-APS-F-2 ... 2067807376

Wiiiideee keyboard, perhaps Fujitsu (?):

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CPT-Model-8500- ... 1949395357

That clicker is rubber dome btw. Still, nice legends.

ohaimark wrote: Wiiiideee keyboard, perhaps Fujitsu (?):

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CPT-Model-8500- ... 1949395357

These are magnetic valve! I've got one of these here.

XMIT wrote:

ohaimark wrote: Wiiiideee keyboard, perhaps Fujitsu (?):

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CPT-Model-8500- ... 1949395357

These are magnetic valve! I've got one of these here.

Are they the full-height, early ITWs then?

Chyros wrote:

XMIT wrote:

ohaimark wrote: Wiiiideee keyboard, perhaps Fujitsu (?):

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CPT-Model-8500- ... 1949395357

These are magnetic valve! I've got one of these here.

Are they the full-height, early ITWs then?

Yep.

alh84001 wrote: In the end this went for 142000 yen. Simply too much for me.It seems blue alps inflation is spreading to other stuff.

Wow!
The numpad alone went for 24,500 yen.

Anyway it's still not the most I've seen someone pay for a keyboard. An MX 5000 a couple of years ago went for over 50,000 yen more:

002 wrote:

alh84001 wrote:
Simply too much for me.

Anyway it's still not the most I've seen someone pay for a keyboard.

Weren't these prices commonplace a couple of years ago?

Prices on truly scarce and desirable gear tends to "roller-coaster" considerably over the years, from my observations.

I don't think I saw too many MX 5000's go for that amount but yeah definitely around that time, people had MX 5000 fever. I remember that particular auction being a stand-out, hence I took the screengrab. There were also some considerably high prices paid for the IBM Adjustable Keyboard around that time -- from memory something like $800 - 1000?

I won my 5576-003 there including numpad for something like 20k yen. That was 6 years ago, and one of the most expensive keyboards on Yahoo Auctions. A little bit of price inflation...

I should have sold one of my Fingerworks Touchstreams at that time though when they went over 2k usd. Reverse plice inflation.

How much are your datahands worth now Webwit?

I remember they were your preferred input method for awhile.

It might become again. I bought a new pair in 2009 from Datahand, and basically wore them down in a couple of years, but I've some spare parts and can refurbish it at some point. But I decided to actually use some of my keyboards of my collection in the meantime And got quite addicted to the HHKB layout.

Not sure what Datahands go for now, I'm not an eBay watcher anymore.

Poor space cadet just sits in your treasure chest...

But I was wondering, how fast can you type with the datahand? Is it actually better or just a meme?

The weird thing about the 5576-003 going for so much is that there was one on YAJ earlier this year/late last year that was there for WEEKS at 10,000 yen buy-it-now price. I think it had a broken or faulty key though but man...is it really a $1300 defect? I can't remember who finally bought it but IIRC they easily fixed the problem.

Should be clicky Black space invaders - $19.99 BIN, + $10 shipping in the US: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NMB-Clicky-Mech ... 1586141952


Corsair K65 for -$25 + $20 shipping US - not the greatest KB but for the price I'd put up with it and would make a nice board to tune. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Corsair-K65-CH- ... 1893142083


While we're at it...there has been someone on eBay selling a bunch of CMStorm Quickfire boards (Rapid-i, TK, etc) for $20 a pop but working except for LEDs...anyone know anything about that?

jerue wrote: Should be clicky Black space invaders - $19.99 BIN, + $10 shipping in the US: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NMB-Clicky-Mech ... 1586141952

"In excellent condition" -> Is filthy. Would it kill sellers to wipe their boards down before posting and selling them?

Still, those keycaps look very nice. It's a tempting offer.

Posted by omgar on GH great finds: GMK WoB free int shipping http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... 77&alt=web