deskthority

*purchased*

I'm obviously late to the party - whatever happened to the white whale and 5140s?

So, I've been out of the game for a bit, and I have an itch to scratch. I'm looking for the following, uncommon boards:
- IBM 4704-100 AKA F50
- IBM Alpha Numeric POS Keyboard AKA 4680 POS - https://deskthority.net/wiki/IBM_Alpha_Numeric_POS_Keyboard

I actually have the POS board, but I need an M ...

Hey, you pinged me on reddit, and I'll take a look what I have in my stash. I'm also in a F62/F77 groupbuy and I'll be adding some extra keys to it, and I'd be willing to order extra for you as well.

So, this is finally happening. I've been out of the loop for a while now, so it's nice to see this progressing. And I'll be in NY in December, so fingers crossed I receive it before xmas :). I'll have to stop by the shop page to order some of those extra keycaps.

@ellipse can you please PM me with ...

Wait, we can use this board now? Awesome, I'll have to try it out one of these days. Thanks for sharing this.

Hell yeah! Welcome back LL!

Nice! I completely missed that there is a converter for this thing. I'll have to assemble one when I get back to my boards.

Little timestamp paper that could

Nice Displaywriter. I have some Alps stuff like Alps-3420 and Sharp X68k if that rocks your boat.

No 'xxx slut' key though

I know, I know . I'd strongly prefer the EN layout, and for it to be <trigger_warning /> as white as possible.

I was veeery lucky with getting this one. I got it together with monitor and main unit (no floppy disk unit or printer), and as shipping was from Germany, it could have been way worse on my wallet :).

Quite an interesting board, and really nice looking. It has a weird design flaw (or mine has a ...

More than a month has passed, so bump bump

I thought I got stuck with a ~$150 paperweight, but it didn't take long after I put it on ebay to see it snagged by someone in Switzerland, for a small profit to boot. So no complaints there

On the upside, you don't need to screw every hole when test-fitting.

3278s are way more common than Kishsavers

I wouldn't say 3278s are way more common than kishies (especially some variants), if at all. Because of that batch two years ago, kishies are not the rarest of boards (still veeeery rare by all accounts), the trouble is no one wants to get rid of them :)

seebart wrote: The 3101 is one of the nicer Beams but $1200 is just silly unless it's NIB'ish.

RIP my chances to get a Displaywriter.

This is not great, but certainly interesting
https://www.ebay.com/itm/122893570176/?autorefresh=true

Yep. I would say there is no comparison to first gen SKCM in good condition.

How much are you looking for it?

It's hard to tell from the pics, are they pin- and plate- compatible with SKCL/M switches?

I finally put this together - (Almost) Ultimate Alps Tester

https://i.imgur.com/SAxuCJJ.jpg

I still have to add a controller to it, so for now it's just for show - SKCL Heavy Grey, SKCL Heavy Green, SKCL Lock Brown, SKCL Double Action (I am about to get last one donated). Many, many, maaaaany ...

alh84001 wrote: Mixing apples and oranges

Spoiler:

Redux.
It's been a year, but I got all of Apple's SKCM Orange boards


At some points it looked almost impossible to get everything (at a reasonable price), but patience payed in the end.

This is a pinout for the 34-pin headers.


Keyboard and keypad map to a raw matrix (with some special keys), but trackball is an ADB device on pins 27, 28, 29 and 30.

I bit bummed Daniel didn't win it, but congrats to Chyros, well-deserved as well.

It won't work with Soarer's (either converter or controller). It works with hasu's 4704 converter.

Indy case really works well with Unicorn vomit color schemes Looks awesome.

This just arrived at my office. I won't have my hands on it until monday. It's gonna be a loooooong wait

Interesting, I didn't know that. Alps being Alps.

gogusrl wrote: Actually I did buy a 5th watch from the flea market (3$) :

That's a real nice find. I would have thought Samsung branding would cause its price to be higher even in a flea market, but I guess not

JP! wrote:

Wait, what?!