Dozens of IBM bigfoot beam spring keyboards have been discovered in the second-hand market of Taobao.

[Byron]

IBM bigfoot beam spring keyboard.

[guidemetothelight]

IBM bigfoot beam spring keyboard.

cool find, but are they already gone ?
Searched for an hour, cant find anything.

[Byron]

IBM bigfoot beam spring keyboard.

cool find, but are they already gone ?
Searched for an hour, cant find anything.

Someone packaged and bought all these keyboards at a very low price. I estimate that it will soon be re listed in the "goofish" second-hand market. https://m.tb.cn/h.5fTde7k?tk=WqcqdAIDJ5u CZ0001

[Muirium]

Clicks link. Sees a Chinese site which appears just to be an advert for an ecommerce app. Is this intentional spam or just how everything in China works?

[Byron]

Clicks link. Sees a Chinese site which appears just to be an advert for an ecommerce app. Is this intentional spam or just how everything in China works?

It is the same as eBay, but it only has mobile application and no web page.

[Byron]

【闲鱼】https://m.tb.cn/h.5UnDJib?tk=i36qdAIPjVQ CZ0001 「快来捡漏【IBM 进口 键盘 实物图 1980年左右生产的 实物图】」
点击链接直接打开

[Byron]

【闲鱼】https://m.tb.cn/h.5Unxjqp?tk=zZvJdAIPFKO CZ3457 「快来捡漏【IBM古董键盘。1981年左右的。】」
点击链接直接打开

[Byron]

Clicks link. Sees a Chinese site which appears just to be an advert for an ecommerce app. Is this intentional spam or just how everything in China works?

【闲鱼】https://m.tb.cn/h.5UnCenm?tk=rxwddAIOuST CZ0001 「快来捡漏【IBM 进口 键盘 实物图 1980年左右生产的 实物图】」
点击链接直接打开

[Byron]

IBM bigfoot beam spring keyboard.

cool find, but are they already gone ?
Searched for an hour, cant find anything.

【闲鱼】https://m.tb.cn/h.5fBWUiH?tk=UqTsdAIo9uv CZ3457 「快来捡漏【IBM 进口 键盘 实物图 1980年左右生产的 实物图】」
点击链接直接打开

[Weezer]

I'd be interested in the "terminals" and controller unit actually but I doubt they offer shipping lol

[thefarside]

I clicked the link and stumbled upon a silver label Model M page and found the English translation amusing:

IBM Model M Keyboard 1390131 Metal Label The M! It was produced on September 25, 1987. The boss said that you must have a metal label when you collect Model M. Don't buy anything strange. Then find a way to get a metal label. Although the metal labels on the salted fish are as much as cow's hair, they are shabby at sky-high prices, stitching strange, and there are no secret wounds due to the lack of meat. The metal label without lamp at the 9X terminal pretends to be 12. 0 is really unpreventable. These days, when you buy an electronic garbage, you must stand on the shoulders of giants and have a pair of shiny krypton dog eyes at the same time. Finally, I caught one, and I hope there will be another one. If you clean it up, it will be brand new, Vally vally goods!

[Muirium]

when you buy an electronic garbage, you must stand on the shoulders of giants and have a pair of shiny krypton dog eyes

Truly, words to live by.

Here's DiffusionBee's interpretation of these sagacious words, as it imagines us on our quest:

Spoiler:

Krypton in the Keyboard Mountains.jpg (96.65 KiB) Viewed 11685 times

Those inner case glow mods are pretty cool for garbage, I will admit.