Great/Interesting Finds

[ramnes]

Come on, my sniper was ready one that one...

[Blaise170]

I had a snipe on it so yes someone bought it out.

[jbondeson]

That's getting more than a little annoying. Some of us don't want to entice buyers to break ebay TOS and we're getting screwed by people totally fine with it.

[seebart]

Again, the numbers say it all. The way this thread is going with 326479 views none of these developments like the crazy blue Alps price jump suprise me. But were not alone out here...GH...reddit...etc.

[Redmaus]

Oh okay I don't mind it then. Not a missed opportunity, just someone with deeper pockets

[2ter]

come on guys and girls, stop whining. blue alps are rare, and since custom alps boards are available, more people want them. and i think posting them here is not the cause fore the price jump. people willing to pay crazy amounts are responsible for that!
back on topic: a cherry g80-0485 in austria
https://www.willhaben.at/iad/kaufen-und ... 153876565/

[seebart]

come on guys and girls, stop whining. blue alps are rare, and since custom alps boards are available, more people want them. and i think posting them here is not the cause fore the price jump. people willing to pay crazy amounts are responsible for that!

Oh I'm not whining, I'm not even surprised by any of this. Nice find that NDR Kleincomputer, a little pricey though for a cheapskate like me.

[Ray]

What switches does this have and who got it?
www.ebay.de/itm/201540597195

[2ter]

I'm a cheapskate too
because of that i prefer flea markets and thrift stores to online auctions.

[seebart]

What switches does this have and who got it?
http://www.ebay.de/itm/201540597195

Oh wow I might have bought that, my kind of thing!

[Abstractions]

What switches does this have and who got it?
http://www.ebay.de/itm/201540597195

Did you get that one? They are pretty neat not so much in the keyboard sense, but in their function as morse code terminals.

[E3E]

come on guys and girls, stop whining. blue alps are rare, and since custom alps boards are available, more people want them. and i think posting them here is not the cause fore the price jump. people willing to pay crazy amounts are responsible for that!
back on topic: a cherry g80-0485 in austria
https://www.willhaben.at/iad/kaufen-und ... 153876565/

I'm just curious as to how much it went for.

Blue Alps aren't really that rare though! Not with the amounts of them popping up lately!

I wonder if someone is just gonna tear up the DC-3014 from that listing and use the AT101's caps. Though those will be doubleshots and not PBT.

[XMIT]

You don't know that. I've seen an AT101 with PBT due sybs.

[Ray]

What switches does this have and who got it?
http://www.ebay.de/itm/201540597195

Did you get that one? They are pretty neat not so much in the keyboard sense, but in their function as morse code terminals.

I would not have asked, if I got it myself. Did only lowball it for a chance nobody noticed it. But now I am keen to know what I missed out
I did find what it is used for (I am not a ham, though), but not what kind of switches it has.
Might have been snatched by a ham, not a keyboard enthusiast.

[Invisius]

Another steel plate soviet http://www.ebay.com/itm/331803907122 with bilingual keycaps

EDIT: second one with less yellowing http://www.ebay.com/itm/331803890349

Never seen a "JCUKE" layout before

[E3E]

You don't know that. I've seen an AT101 with PBT due sybs.

Yes I do know that. I'll be back with an edit in a moment.

Okay, so I'm not trying to sound crass, but there is a distinctive difference between Alps-made dyesubbed PBT, Alps-made Doubleshot, and the ABS caps that are typically found on Acers.

The biggest difference between both the Acers and the Dell PBT is the asterisk and minus legend, actually no, the entire numberpad is a huge giveaway among other small nuances:



PBT





DS ABS

The doubleshot ABS version of the AT101 seems to be found only on the Japanese-made AT101s as far as I have seen.



See how the legends are the same? You can see this sizing and positioning on every ANSI doubleshot board with Alps Electric caps, including the Acer KB101AS (a variant of the KB101A), etc.

This is a rotated version of one of the only decently clear shots of the AT101:



Due to the indicators mentioned above, this is most certainly doubleshot ABS, not PBT.

[seebart]

Never seen a "JCUKE" layout before

Me neither! Off topic Invisius: I see in your profile that your favorite swtich is Fujitsu Magnetic Reed. I'm guessing you own a keyboard with them, any possibility of showing us some pictures please?

[XMIT]

You don't know that. I've seen an AT101 with PBT due sybs.

Yes I do know that. I'll be back with an edit in a moment [...] Due to the indicators mentioned above, this is most certainly doubleshot ABS, not PBT.

Fair enough. I need to dig up my AT101 with dye sub caps and see what they look like for comparison.

Yes, in general, there are subtle clues to a key cap's source such as size, color, and style of legends.

[Invisius]

Reuters board with browns (and some cool MX-mount PBT) http://www.ebay.com/itm/291710238541

Never seen a "JCUKE" layout before

Me neither! Off topic Invisius: I see in your profile that your favorite swtich is Fujitsu Magnetic Reed. I'm guessing you own a keyboard with them, any possibility of showing us some pictures please?

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[Engicoder]

Good golly!!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331804037932

[chiptea]

Good golly!!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331804037932

What do you have to do to an F to bring it to that state, drop it off a 5 story building onto concrete?

Also, >starting bid $25

[ohaimark]

I bought a [dad joke] bunch of stuff [/dad joke] from that seller separately from eBay. He's pretty hung up on getting premium prices for his keyboards. I only managed to purchase a lot because I found a price list that he "grandfathered" me into for motivating him to sort his KBs.

[E3E]

You don't know that. I've seen an AT101 with PBT due sybs.

Yes I do know that. I'll be back with an edit in a moment [...] Due to the indicators mentioned above, this is most certainly doubleshot ABS, not PBT.

Fair enough. I need to dig up my AT101 with dye sub caps and see what they look like for comparison.

Yes, in general, there are subtle clues to a key cap's source such as size, color, and style of legends.

Indeed, and they can be really fun and interesting to sort out! I didn't even see the distinction between Alps DS caps and Alps PBT caps until I stumbled upon that Japanese AT101 and then realized that there's a trend for those caps on every ANSI board I've seen with Alps Electric doubleshots.

Yeah, Alps Electric seems to have made the caps on the AT101 boards (SGI, Dell, HP, and a few more, I think), the Leading Edge boards, and a whole bunch more.

I'm still not sure if the non-DS caps on the Acer ANSI boards are Alps-made or not, as the back sides of them do not have the same mold marks that Alps Electric caps have.

[effectiveduck]

Woops, wrong thread.

[HzFaq]

There are kind of cool, no idea what their original use was or if they can be used as standard input devices either but could be a cool project for £30ish.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/371575431172? ... Track=true

[zuglufttier]

Really interesting... Guess, they won't stay that low. Those are standard USB devices: http://www.traxsys.com/AssistiveTechnol ... fault.aspx

Don't know what they are supposed to cost brand new.

You could control them via a foot pedal or something like that, too. That's what the three inputs on the back are for.

[HzFaq]

Whoops, thought they were BIN....still, can't see them going for all that much. Thanks for the link though, even more tempted to go for them now...

[andrewjoy]

Good golly!!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331804037932

What do you have to do to an F to bring it to that state, drop it off a 5 story building onto concrete?

Also, >starting bid $25

There is no way in a normal setting that could get like that , the XT case is a tank. Me thinks a pallet in a recycling centre may have dropped on the poor thing.

Still very good donor board , XT caps mmmm.

[shreebles]

Still very good donor board , XT caps mmmm.

Any info on Bigfoot caps? Are they also good? I have a few but they are so dirty

[recon8659]

Still very good donor board , XT caps mmmm.

Any info on Bigfoot caps? Are they also good? I have a few but they are so dirty

Alps bigfoot?

I have an AT101W with I think dye sublimated caps. I also think they're thin abs so they shine and are slightly discolored. Otherwise they're quite nice