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There is this Dude in Southern Germany (Mömlingen, Bavaria) that is looking to sell 5000 pieces of New Old Stock AZERTY Keyboards with quality looking keycaps. The layout is quite vintage, protocoll is DEC and the keycaps are not Cherry MX but the switches are discrete and soldered to a PCB.
Unfortunately the seller doesn't really seem to know a lot or care. He doesn't know the Modell name and from the pictures I feel like I know more about the dude than the keyboard: He likes his Maggi spice, drinks Kizilay and therefore likely is from Turkey.
Jokes aside, here is the link: https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anz ... 3-225-7413

Private seller, no warranty or return!! Convolute of computer keyboards ca 5000 pieces new originally packed ca 4-5 11-12 pallets ! Only for collection, no shipping, can be shipped for extra cost and payment in advance! Best Regards

On request he only send me one further picture: I wanted to bring this up since AZERTY is not sought after in Germany and in case these are interesting donor boards for our fellow Europeans with a lot of time on their hands. Unfortunately these don't seem MX compatible but seem like nice keycaps.

What keyboard is this?
What switch is this? Some White Space-Invader with green spacebar.

Community Updates:
Here are more pictures inozenz got from the seller and uploaded: https://imgur.com/a/dYSLuDB

Inozenz is doing the handling and bartering with the seller. We need 2.5k€+ 0.6k€ = 3.1k€ to make this happen:

inozenz wrote: ↑

15 May 2021, 12:10

I talked to the guy and he is willing to let the keyboards go for 2500€ (keyboards)+ 600€ (transportaion).

inozenz also put up a google sheet for people interested and willing to chime in:

inozenz wrote: ↑

14 May 2021, 11:40

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

inozenz also put a discord server:

inozenz wrote: ↑

15 May 2021, 13:27

Please join the discord server, this makes communication easier. https://discord.gg/9FTQhfV7uq

Consider the shipping cost for these high weight boards, especially overseas! Shipping cost have not yet been estimated.

what the fuck.

shock aside, these are NMB Space Invaders, no clue on the variety of them but they sure are worth saving.

How much does he want for the 5000 (are you sure he didn't put a few too many zeroes??) keyboards?

Here's the layout shot:



They look like NOS space invaders to me, so should be quite tasty. Though the layout is a bit ho hum. Condition seems to be great.

What's the price then?

Kleinanzeigen struggling to live up to its name.
Seems very cool - but I am also a bit skeptical of the number (5000).

Would be interested for sure, if you are able to provide more context please post it here.

Also interested.

Im trying to call the seller, will post sth if he calls me back

So it seems like if someone will buy all of them he wants 50c per piece, so if someone has 2500€ lying around, here is your chance

I would hate to pass on such an opportunity. If anyone is considering it, would you be okay with splitting a bunch to lighten the financial burden ?

Jesus, this is huge.

Just when I was looking to build a linear SI board, thousands of NOS ones pop up. Shame shipping to the US is so bad. Imagine if something like this happened for some of the higher-valued keyboards in existence, it would be incredible. I look forward to seeing the price of SI crash!

Myoth wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 18:41

I would hate to pass on such an opportunity. If anyone is considering it, would you be okay with splitting a bunch to lighten the financial burden ?

I could contribute sth as well. However, someone would have to pick them up and store them somewhere.

Ditto, though I probably can't afford to chip in much because I've spent a fortune over the last few months. I notice it has a Compose key, which I'm always a huge fan of, m'self!

I could chip in.

How much does he want for 50? Or maybe more realistically, 20?

5000 will take a while…

I would be interested in a few

In the US, but always looking for cheap(ish) Space Invaders.

I can ask him if he would be willing to sell like 200 that would be easier to split than 5000

Lalaland124 wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:06

I can ask him if he would be willing to sell like 200 that would be easier to split than 5000

Great idea! I'd probably be down for a few for friends and family

Could chip in 50€

I'm interested in one

I'm just a bit confused what happened to some of the boards as he posted one where the PCB seems completely broken..

I could chip in $80 or something. I'd be down to nab a few. Let's definitely see if we can avoid this going to ebay.

Problem is we need someone in Europe who can store 5000 keyboards...

Redmaus wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:21

I could chip in $80 or something. I'd be down to nab a few. Let's definitely see if we can avoid this going to ebay.

Problem is we need someone in Europe who can store 5000 keyboards...

I got more then enough Space at my parents farm.

But the Logistics of 5000NIB Keyboards will be hell and a lot of Work.

Redmaus wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:21

I could chip in $80 or something. I'd be down to nab a few. Let's definitely see if we can avoid this going to ebay.

Yeah that would be bad.

Redmaus wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:21

Problem is we need someone in Europe who can store 5000 keyboards...

I mean a hundred wouldnt be a problem for me, but like 5000, where do you even get so many in the first place. I could probably replace my whole furniture in my house with just the boxes of the boards

Lalaland124 wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:20

I'm just a bit confused what happened to some of the boards as he posted one where the PCB seems completely broken..

Hooooo boyyyy

an_achronism wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:24

Lalaland124 wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:20

I'm just a bit confused what happened to some of the boards as he posted one where the PCB seems completely broken..

Hooooo boyyyy

Im sure its just poor storage. I'm sure some of the boards are litarally broken in half.

inozenz wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:30

an_achronism wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:24

Lalaland124 wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:20

I'm just a bit confused what happened to some of the boards as he posted one where the PCB seems completely broken..

Hooooo boyyyy

Im sure its just poor storage. I'm sure some of the boards are litarally broken in half.

That's what I thought as well. Would at least explain why he just wants to have 50c for each board..

Lalaland124 wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:32

inozenz wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:30

an_achronism wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:24

Hooooo boyyyy

Im sure its just poor storage. I'm sure some of the boards are litarally broken in half.

That's what I thought as well. Would at least explain why he just wants to have 50c for each board..

Looking at the picture he send you i figured he is turkish, just like me. My guess is he is just looking to sell in bulk the get his 2-3k. For him it is easy money, he doesnt know what opportunity he is missing.

Lalaland124 wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:32

inozenz wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:30

an_achronism wrote: ↑

13 May 2021, 21:24

Hooooo boyyyy

Im sure its just poor storage. I'm sure some of the boards are litarally broken in half.

That's what I thought as well. Would at least explain why he just wants to have 50c for each board..

I am sure we could negotiate the price down to 2k with transport.

Whoever gets them, for the love of god don't sell them at whatever current market for NOS space invaders is. We have a unique opportunity to crash the market and still make a profit with how cheap these are, lets not waste it!