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I wonder if anyone with paypal would be interested in group buying this and if others would be willing to participate? I would take one for a max of $200.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/111010253810

Price is down now because he only sold 1 earlier, maybe he would take 9 x $150?

OK, I'm interested in one!

Fossala, please help us!

I really can't justify buying one of these, but hell, I'd be in for one if the price is ≤ $200 (± some coin) shipped to the EU. Worst case I'll just have to sell some stuff I don't use. :> Or stop eating, but that's not a very good idea. Probably.

Nice !

I can't justify one more buckling spring yet.
How does this group buy works, it asks just for one ...

fruktstund wrote: Or stop eating, but that's not a very good idea. Probably.

Eating is overrated you know

Gilgam wrote:Nice !

I can't justify one more buckling spring yet.
How does this group buy works, it asks just for one ...

fruktstund wrote: Or stop eating, but that's not a very good idea. Probably.

Eating is overrated you know

so is this breathing shit too...who thought this was a good idea?

id be in for a m13 if i had some cash...if i have a job ill get one

No no no no....

^ Translation:

Yes yes yes yes...aaaaargh my wallet.

I'm soooo glad I already own one...

But wait.... This one is NIB???? Aaaaaaaaaaarrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Yes yes yes but...

I honestly lost faith in group-buys since the two years old group-buy from Unicomp

So when I get my stuff from 7bit I'm in for a NIB M13 at, say, $150 or so. Now 7bit said I should get it by the end of next week at most but after two years I'm really not so sure

So if I get my 3 industrial shells then I promise I'll take one black M13 (Belgium, Brussels here) but I'm not advancing any money before I get my stuff from the two-years old group buy.

That's because my faith is in humanity is gone and it shall only come back if/when I get my Unicomp stuff

So if you have faith in humanity and 7bit and all that, then you know my loot is going to arrive, which means you know you can count on me to take one

Peace.

(also if he has nine to sell and they're not selling at $200, maybe we could offer even less than $150 per keyboard... But no biggie for me: around $150 and I'm for it: I was going to buy an used one --with keys already damaged-- and I was going to shell more than that)

TacticalCoder wrote:

Package is 100% on the way to you!

Also, I will not organise anything in this mini group buy, so nothing can fail!

I'm not going to do this one. I'm still doing my chinese (round 2) and only like to do one thing at a time.

webwit wrote:I wonder if anyone with paypal would be interested in group buying this and if others would be willing to participate? I would take one for a max of $200.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/111010253810

Price is down now because he only sold 1 earlier, maybe he would take 9 x $150?

Yeah, I made him an offer on Thursday and he accepted (he seems lenient). I wanted it mainly to match my other black IBM computers. That, and to put on RGB key caps on it.
Have to figure out what I'm going to use to seal the pad printing.

EDIT: He actually sold four in total with mine included. He keeps relisting this every few days, thus erasing the "sold" history. I was only able to see three sold in the previous listing. Never kept track of the previous listings before then.

he turned my $179 offer down yesterday

What is the cheapest buckling spring board in the market.

A beaten up Model M with blue label in German layout with some missing key caps, cut-off cable and LED cut-outs on top.

Very nice indeed, but far too expensive for me once you take into account tax and shipping.

Does anyone know whether these boards were produced in ISO layouts?

grasshopper wrote:Does anyone know whether these boards were produced in ISO layouts?

I don't know but you could:

1. bolt mod it into an ISO layout (hard)

2. swap the innards with one from an ISO Model M (very easy)

and then buy the few missing blank black keycaps (enter key, |\, left shift, etc.). Unicomp doesn't do the "white on black" keys but they do sell keys entirely black.

So you'd have a few full black keys.

Would still look very nice.

TacticalCoder wrote: and then buy the few missing blank black keycaps (enter key, |\, left shift, etc.). Unicomp doesn't do the "white on black" keys but they do sell keys entirely black.

The reason I asked the question is because I recently bought a set of black blank keycaps to use on an ISO (UK) keyboard. All the blank keys supplied by Unicomp were black apart from the ISO enter key which was grey. I doubt whether it was an error. And it leads me to wonder whether black ISO enter keys have ever been produced by Unicomp (and IBM/Lexmark before them).

I'm quite disappointed because a set of black blank keys looks pretty cool, and might even give me an incentive to learn to type properly.

7bit wrote:A beaten up Model M with blue label in German layout with some missing key caps, cut-off cable and LED cut-outs on top.

Any idea how much that would be?

grasshopper wrote:The reason I asked the question is because I recently bought a set of black blank keycaps to use on an ISO (UK) keyboard. All the blank keys supplied by Unicomp were black apart from the ISO enter key which was grey.

Ah you may be right: I just checked and my blank black set from Unicomp is ANSI, not ISO.

TacticalCoder wrote:
Ah you may be right: I just checked and my blank black set from Unicomp is ANSI, not ISO.

they don't have iso black enter key. they told they never will.
Unfortunately.
And these white on black are printed.
Do they last long ?

Unicomp doesn't sell them because they wear down. They want to prevent that people buy them and then come back later to complain.

I heard of it indeed.

Are double shots Buckling spring keycaps an heresy ?

IBM would never make silly ABS keycaps in that period! Not good enough.

<old grandad>These were good old days when quality meant something.</old grandad>
There are some double shots PBT by now, but i don't think there will be some buckling spring yet...

This forum needs a software filter that censors me every time I try to buy something.

I don't need this and I will not spend money on it!

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Yes yes yes yes...aaaaargh my wallet.

I want one!! I just can't click the buy it now at that price

I would do it for 150.00, but usi.g a nib keyboard seems almost sacrilege <hand sneeks into box...click, click, click>

someone grapped them all

TAdams wrote:I want one!! I just can't click the buy it now at that price

I would do it for 150.00, but usi.g a nib keyboard seems almost sacrilege <hand sneeks into box...click, click, click>

Just get 2 of them and use thell out of one and keep the other in a safe room at constant temperature and humidity.