deskthority

€100, the Nixie hype is over!

It'll only be official when I'm in!

"Thirty bucks of your finest Nixdorfs, please. Yes, I know, I like to have a few spares as well as a full board's worth."

I'm going to start dying white alps blue! Great Success!!

photekq wrote: Some KPT keyboard going for cheap..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Computer-Keyb ... SwrklVRMks

Thanks Pho, snagged this for £12 shipped. Pretty cheap and nasty feeling, but the layout is kind of cool and the switches are pretty good (compatible to OA2 clones). The right shift is killing me though, I keep leaving #### everywhere .

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Northgate-Keybo ... 1874046313

Gold Label Omnikey. Let's see how quickly the listing gets pulled when outside-of-eBay offers reach the seller.

ohaimark wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Northgate-Keybo ... 1874046313

Gold Label Omnikey. Let's see how quickly the listing gets pulled when outside-of-eBay offers reach the seller.

Already talked to him...the auction stands.

HzFaq wrote:

photekq wrote: Some KPT keyboard going for cheap..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Computer-Keyb ... SwrklVRMks

Thanks Pho, snagged this for £12 shipped. Pretty cheap and nasty feeling, but the layout is kind of cool and the switches are pretty good (compatible to OA2 clones). The right shift is killing me though, I keep leaving #### everywhere .

That's one for the left Shifters if ever I saw it. With a nice big ANSI left Shift like that, well, you're on to complaining about ole Big Ass!

Khers wrote: €100, the Nixie hype is over!

Muirium wrote: It'll only be official when I'm in!

"Thirty bucks of your finest Nixdorfs, please. Yes, I know, I like to have a few spares as well as a full board's worth."

I forgot to mention that I did PM the same seller that I bought mine from. He says he does have plenty more Nixdorf boards in various condition. He thinks that anyone will pay his insane prices though. I say wait and see how many or few he sells and then approach him with a GB offer for X amount of boards. The more boards he has in total the easier it might get for us if he sells few or little for € 200+. Patience.

Thanks Seebart. I've always got patience. It's actually just a rearrangement of the same equation that defines being permanently skint!

Right, the bottom line is these sellers just try out these crazy offers after they got some hint online of what someone might pay for a 20+ year old used piece of hardware. So kbdfr's argument is right of course, where the hell do these sellers get these pricing ideas? Other auctions, us and GH, Reddit and whatever other few sources there are. But the more you have for sale the less likely it is that every single one will go for the high roller offer. We'll see.

Good luck greedy chump:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/SIEMENS-NIXDORF- ... SwQYZWuy1o

http://www.ebay.it/itm/5-x-Vintage-Texa ... SwQYZWw3jE

could be vintage t alps?

Why even bother with Nixies when Gaterons are so smooth and cheap? Or am I missing something?

Muirium wrote: Thanks Seebart. I've always got patience. It's actually just a rearrangement of the same equation that defines being permanently skint!

I'll wait too As a big fan of MX Linear I reslly want some nixies but no way at those prices. But I can wait

Tuntematon wrote: Why even bother with Nixies when Gaterons are so smooth and cheap? Or am I missing something?

Gaterons are shit, sorry everyone is hyped about them but they are just cheap clones, and the smoothness is just soft cheap plastic. Sorry

Engicoder wrote: I'm going to start dying white alps blue! Great Success!!

I'm just going to dye them red call them a new switch and say they were better than blues.

I might just do it to see how they look. In all seriousness, don't do this.

DanielT wrote:

Tuntematon wrote: Why even bother with Nixies when Gaterons are so smooth and cheap? Or am I missing something?

Gaterons are shit, sorry everyone is hyped about them but they are just cheap clones, and the smoothness is just soft cheap plastic. Sorry

I see. So I guess the same applies to the critically acclaimed Zealios. Genuine Cherry or bust!

you mean the "let's make it purple and charge triple" zealios ? suuuure

To be fair, the slider is a custom design. Bigger bump. The linears on the other hand are the same, save for weighting.

seebart wrote: Good luck greedy chump:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/SIEMENS-NIXDORF- ... SwQYZWuy1o

Yeah don't feed the Nixie guy !
And don't believe the hype ... I put some gateron tops on my mx blacks and they got smoother, too.

To be fair, 250€ still is less than what Nixies went for about a year ago. And the seller probably accepts offers well below that price tag. Whoever placed the winning bid on the latest auction (<120€) got himself a reasonably good deal.

gogusrl wrote: With these crazy prices someone needs to post a Nixdorf with all the right keywords and pics, see how high that goes

please no!

zeitg3ist wrote: http://www.ebay.it/itm/5-x-Vintage-Texa ... SwQYZWw3jE

could be vintage t alps?

maybe cherry m8?
if confirmed and someone is interested we could arrange a group buy and I would be in for one, let's say under 30?

zeitg3ist wrote: http://www.ebay.it/itm/5-x-Vintage-Texa ... SwQYZWw3jE

could be vintage t alps?

Looks like the Hi-Tek's ones

photos-f62/hi-tek-keyboard-t12653.html

you're right!
what a pity
I like the caps.. but would really be difficult to reuse them..

I'm otherwise trying to find out some "Cherry G80-0662" like keyboard around to "steal" the caps from.. no success so far..

ohaimark wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Northgate-Keybo ... 1874046313

Gold Label Omnikey. Let's see how quickly the listing gets pulled when outside-of-eBay offers reach the seller.

whats so great about these ?

mastermachetier wrote:

ohaimark wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Northgate-Keybo ... 1874046313

Gold Label Omnikey. Let's see how quickly the listing gets pulled when outside-of-eBay offers reach the seller.

whats so great about these ?

Blue Alps

ohaimark wrote:

Chyros wrote: Honestly what is it with the fear of electricity here? The wall sockets have goddamn on/off buttons on them Oo .

America is nervous, but some of it serves a purpose. GFCIs are standard in bathroom building codes at least. I must say that grounding a space bar due to a 5 volt milliamp-current electrical source is excessive, though.

I didn't notice any excesses in America with the electricity tbh, although I was only there for two weeks. If you want to see nervousness, come see what happens when the Health and Safety officer catches a few drops of coffee on the floor, or small amounts of writing on a glass panel. You'd think it was murder on the Orient Express :p .

XMIT wrote:

Chyros wrote:

ohaimark wrote: Thanks XMIT. I had it mixed up -- I thought Greenock was the source of PBT space bars, not ABS space bars.

No, they have crazy Health & Safety rules here, so they wanted grounded spacebars, so they made them out of ABS and clipped a metal bit to it to protect you from the evil electricity.

Honestly what is it with the fear of electricity here? The wall sockets have goddamn on/off buttons on them Oo .

I didn't think that was paranoia so much as energy savings. It's nice to know that your devices at idle use Zero Watts instead of zero-ish.

Thanks for the good explanation of the grounded Space bar. Would you mind adding that to the Wiki?

Cheers, I'm extremely bad with programming and wiki language but I'll see what I can do xD .

Some nice buckling board:
http://world.taobao.com/item/5251226788 ... 1e168a386a

Well spotted. I haven't seen this board before…





The layout's AT but the case is quite different. Much more compact. And what's that metal ring on the right?