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XMIT wrote: I hope b***a bids on one of my auctions some time so we can figure out who this is once and for all.

The evil side of me has contemplated offering up something tasty just to reel him in.

Hypersphere wrote: NTC KB-6851EA Mini Keyboard with white Alps switches

If anyone here is interested, I contacted the seller, and he said that he has ~ 30 of these, which presumably will be selling at very favorable prices.

Since when does this keyboard exist?

It's a shame about the arrow cluster but I'm still interested. Any idea of the seller's intentions, will he be auctioning them one at a time?

It's a really interesting layout
I've sent a message to the seller to pull a cap and make sure what switches it has, gather interest from you guys, haggle a bit, and probably run a mini GB if there is enough interest.

Terrific! If it really has white Alps it'd be a nice little board to try them on.

Indeed. And Greek caps are some of my favourite caps, inexplicably…

I'd be interested if you were to run a mini-GB with those, chzel

I could get in on that.

Ooh, I'd be up for a GB too!

In for a GB as well!

-ImbaHue

Count me in for a GB too

i might be interested as well depending on the price.

dirty wang
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Wang-Ke ... 1950417002?

Wow, sexy little Alps board. I might come back to Alps with something like this. Count me in if price is low!

Depending on the price, I'd be in as well.

I would be up for one too, if the price is right

Engicoder wrote:

XMIT wrote: I hope b***a bids on one of my auctions some time so we can figure out who this is once and for all.

The evil side of me has contemplated offering up something tasty just to reel him in.

Engicoder the keyboard honeytrap!

If someone offers a cheap or any IBM 3178 beam spring, I'll be b***a.

chzel wrote: It's a really interesting layout
I've sent a message to the seller to pull a cap and make sure what switches it has, gather interest from you guys, haggle a bit, and probably run a mini GB if there is enough interest.

The one with the Greek letters?

Heck yeah I'm down for one!

I contacted the seller of the Greek mini keyboard and asked him to check to see if any of the 30 were a different model number and if any of them had blue Alps. He said that they were all white Alps, and he then posted another one on eBay with a BIN price of $20 plus $16 for international shipping. I bought that one. I am not sure, but I think he might be waiting for the one that is currently up for bid to sell before he posts the other one(s) in his collection. When I get mine, I will pull a cap and post a pic of what I find. It will be a shame if this thing turns out to be something like foam and foil instead of white Alps, but to me it is worth $36 to find out.

If those are white Alps, I'd be interested in one, too

Yep, definitely interested as well!

Hypersphere wrote: If anyone here is interested, I contacted the seller, and he said that he has ~ 30 of these, which presumably will be selling at very favorable prices.

Yeah count me in. chzel is our man on the scene. If we buy all 30 for a GB he might give us a really good price.

Toshipa T3200SXC laptop in Milano which possibly has ALPS SKFL switches:

http://www.subito.it/informatica/comput ... 969910.htm

here is an older topic about it: http://deskthority.net/photos-f62/toshi ... -t603.html

chzel wrote: It's a really interesting layout
I've sent a message to the seller to pull a cap and make sure what switches it has, gather interest from you guys, haggle a bit, and probably run a mini GB if there is enough interest.

I'm also interested in one, if mechanical

AEKII:
http://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anze ... 3-225-8461

I would be interested in that GB if the price doesn't get high

Engicoder wrote:

XMIT wrote: I hope b***a bids on one of my auctions some time so we can figure out who this is once and for all.

The evil side of me has contemplated offering up something tasty just to reel him in.

1. Engicoder baits the target
2. Target takes the bait
3. b***a is revealed to be Doug Johnson from Vermont!
4. Engicoder experiences a moment of satisfaction, realizes he can't do anything with this information.
5. Engicoder regrets selling that sweet keyboard to Doug "b***a" Johnson

Tuntematon wrote:

Engicoder wrote:

XMIT wrote: I hope b***a bids on one of my auctions some time so we can figure out who this is once and for all.

The evil side of me has contemplated offering up something tasty just to reel him in.

1. Engicoder baits the target
2. Target takes the bait
3. b***a is revealed to be Doug Johnson from Vermont!
4. Engicoder experiences a moment of satisfaction, realizes he can't do anything with this information.
5. Engicoder regrets selling that sweet keyboard to Doug "b***a" Johnson

Haha, you may be right, but more likely I would contact him to get the back story.

Here you go chzel


EDIT: chzel is negotiating for this item.

The mini GB for the NTCs is live.
http://deskthority.net/group-buys-f50/n ... 12388.html

Engicoder wrote: Here you go chzel
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191761165366

Some say that certain variants of the MCK-101 (and the variants VARY quite a bit between suffixes) have double shot PBT caps. Can anyone verify this with an acetone test?

I find it a little hard to believe, but I WANT to be proven wrong in this case.


EDIT: No worries, I can respect items people really want! I won't be dealing with trying to nab this out from under chzel. I'm just curious about the PBT claim.