deskthority

TLDR: eBay treats sellers like dirt, which lead to sellers overcharging, and buyers thinking sellers are jerks.


I stand behind my dissertation from years ago:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=51443.msg1132476#msg1132476

Other than eBay's changes (to charges) over the years, and ...

On the ebay note, eBay takes 10% straight away, including the cost of postage jacking postage prices up, PayPal charge at least 3%, possibly more if the payment is from a different currency, plus a business seller has to pay at a minimum £25 a month for a basic shop on eBay, giving only buy it now ...

I've found a couple of Soviet computers which have used MX clones, and even a Soviet "made" keyboard, stamped as made in the USSR using Cherry MY switches, which was clearly a Cherry G80. Never got to the bottom of if they got a license to make them or just had a batch made with "made in the USSR ...

The mounts look almost the same, but I'd need dimensions to check if the keycaps would be compatible.

As for former Soviet stuff I normally have piles of Soviet computers lieing around, I may not be an expert, but any former Soviet pictures can be forwarded to me and I'll try and identify them.

It's a keyboard from a smart terminal "ТС-7063" in Russian, or "TS-7063" in English. The full name of the keyboard in Russian is "ТС-7063.02.А003.01" or "TS-7063.02.A003.01" in English. It feels like a very nice linear switch (although personally I prefer clicky keyboards).

Even information in ...

keyswitch.jpg keycap.jpg

Does anybody recognise these keyswitches? I've found them in use on various different computers from the USSR, and it'd be nice to know if they were ever used on Western keyboards, or if they're purely a Soviet design.

For full disclosure, I sell vintage computer gear ...

I actually found your review video for the Pingmaster in the end. Looks like a nice board, but at $79 I think I'll pass on it.

(Looks like the seller linked to your review too! Guess I should've followed the link)

Looks like a match

Not so sure that the Teensy and being in the original packaging makes up for the price though

https://www.olx.ua/obyavlenie/vinrarney ... c249143b32

No photo which actually shows it's an IBM, does anybody recognise this?

Thanks!

I guess all the boards that I thought were MX SMKs were actually Futabas, and I'm yet to try an MX mount SMK.

Really? How do you tell between MX mount SMKs and Futabas?

I'm guessing Cherry MX mount SMKs

But only because I have a 5191 with them lieing around.

:D Awesome, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us Wanderer, indefinitely worth more than any consensus or speculation which are often substituted for facts by very few around here.

My pleasure, Soviet keyboards are something I see a lot of, just a shame that this isn't one of the nicer ones ...

Not IBM. No way. Maybe IBM compatible.

Yeah I'd think so too. Still interesting though.
It gets posted every other month or so, including once by me. The consensus was rubber dome.

This is the keyboard from an Elektronika MS0511 (UKNC), a Soviet PDP-11 based microcomputer. Not IBM compatible ...