Great/Interesting Finds

damorgue · 12 Jan 2014, 08:48

There have been two Swedish Model M going up repeatedly on a Swedish auction site without being sold for the past month. I offered him about half what he had been asking for and said that he could either keep trying to auction them off at his high starting price or accept my offer of 30€. He did. He might also accept 25€. PM me if you are interested. The seller is located in my city, so I can proxy if need be but this probably only interests Swedes anyway.

nourathar · 12 Jan 2014, 16:27

sean4star wrote:How about this old IBM board with Japanese/Chinese characters:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/141160854212#ht_6459wt_896

It has old Alps vintage tee mount switches and doubleshot keycaps and a grouping of relegendable caps.

Basically THIS board, but I think a different model number.

I already picked one up, but looks like he has one more.

they were all gone, but now they are back, five for sale now, he's dripfeeding them:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151208834266

Britney Spears · 12 Jan 2014, 23:32

I'm not sure whether this is a great find at all, but there is POS keyboard on ebay which seems to have Cherry MX Blue switches (It is hard to tell, as it's photo is neither large enough nor sharp enough to be sure). If it is equipped with MX Blues, you would get 105 switches plus a bunch of weird keycaps for 20€:

http://kleinanzeigen.ebay.de/anzeigen/s ... 24-225-941

kbdfr · 13 Jan 2014, 00:33

Britney Spears wrote:I'm not sure whether this is a great find at all, but there is POS keyboard on ebay which seems to have Cherry MX Blue switches (It is hard to tell, as it's photo is neither large enough nor sharp enough to be sure). If it is equipped with MX Blues, you would get 105 switches plus a bunch of weird keycaps for 20€:

http://kleinanzeigen.ebay.de/anzeigen/s ... 24-225-941

I can confirm the keyboard has MX blue switches (I have/had the same).
Plus the photo shows it has this gorgeous set of (doubleshot!) number keycaps:
http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... tml#p11624
(I also still have a set of them somewhere)

So I would say yes, it is a great /interesting find

scottc · 13 Jan 2014, 00:50

Ooh, that POS keyboard looks very very cool. Is that a local eBay classifieds site? I can't find the same ad on Irish eBay, so I assume so.

Britney Spears · 13 Jan 2014, 06:34

Yeah, these are local ads, but if you're interested I can act as translator and proxy.

matt3o · 13 Jan 2014, 09:02

what the hell?!?!?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALPS-DOKIU-SAVE ... 1243389099

photekq · 13 Jan 2014, 09:13

matt3o wrote:what the hell?!?!?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALPS-DOKIU-SAVE ... 1243389099

Check out his $460 and $760 SAUs too!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-G80-1000 ... 417b7832ee
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Cherry-G80- ... 417b60d7b1

matt3o · 13 Jan 2014, 09:16

he really knows how to price keyboards

damorgue · 13 Jan 2014, 09:17

photekq wrote: Check out his $460 and $760 SAUs too!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-G80-1000 ... 417b7832ee
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Cherry-G80- ... 417b60d7b1

At first I thought they were NIB but they are in fact frankenboards where the caps are from a G81 keyboard. Still rare and expensive but not I wouldn't call it a NIB item.

wheybags · 13 Jan 2014, 11:42

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Family ... 484ce0a3f8

NES keyboard.
I wonder what kind of switches it has (probably dome unfortunately ;_;).

ماء · 13 Jan 2014, 12:31

wheybags wrote:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Family ... 484ce0a3f8

NES keyboard.
I wonder what kind of switches it has (probably dome unfortunately ;_;).

Nice,color scheme like R4 but with red

scottc · 13 Jan 2014, 15:09

Britney Spears wrote:Yeah, these are local ads, but if you're interested I can act as translator and proxy.

I'm very tempted but I'm worried that the double shipping costs would increase the price by a lot. Do you know how much it would be to ship to me in Ireland plus the price of getting it to you? Thanks for the offer, by the way!

matt3o wrote:what the hell?!?!?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALPS-DOKIU-SAVE ... 1243389099

matt3o wrote:he really knows how to price keyboards

Wow... maybe I'll just start to make custom keyboards for a living. Apparently you can make quite a lot of money with it...

matt3o · 13 Jan 2014, 15:31

it's a nice keyboard... but I for that much I'll build it myself, actually I could build 5 myself for that pricetag

scottc · 13 Jan 2014, 15:34

matt3o wrote:it's a nice keyboard... but I for that much I'll build it myself, actually I could build 5 myself for that pricetag

Definitely, if not more through bulk discounts on cutting! Still, looks nice though.

Josh · 13 Jan 2014, 15:59

photekq wrote:
matt3o wrote:what the hell?!?!?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALPS-DOKIU-SAVE ... 1243389099
Check out his $460 and $760 SAUs too!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-G80-1000 ... 417b7832ee
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Cherry-G80- ... 417b60d7b1

those two keyboards are on eBay for years, at least one and half
the guy who selling them is kind of ..umm..what can I say

mr_a500 · 13 Jan 2014, 19:01

nourathar wrote:
sean4star wrote:How about this old IBM board with Japanese/Chinese characters:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/141160854212#ht_6459wt_896

It has old Alps vintage tee mount switches and doubleshot keycaps and a grouping of relegendable caps.

Basically THIS board, but I think a different model number.

I already picked one up, but looks like he has one more.

they were all gone, but now they are back, five for sale now, he's dripfeeding them:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151208834266

I just got mine today. I attempted a "TRS-80-ification" (swapping TRS-80 Model III keycaps):

TRS90.JPG

The keycaps fit nicely (they're both "T" ALPS), but there aren't enough keys to make it work.... but maybe I'll claim it's a "RARE KEYBOARD L@@K!!!" and sell it on eBay for $1299.

wheybags · 13 Jan 2014, 19:03

To anyone considering buying one, go here: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=528 ... msg1176566
and pm that guy, he'll give you his email and you can get em for 25. Mine's in the post <3

mr_a500 · 13 Jan 2014, 19:05

Yes, that's what I did. He's a very reasonable seller.

wheybags · 13 Jan 2014, 19:06

Don't suppose you have some nice easy teensy code all written up and ready to go once mine arrives? :p

mr_a500 · 13 Jan 2014, 19:14

I have some very nice code written up... but it's in BASIC. It goes:

10 PRINT "I do hope Soarer's keyboard hack will work."
20 GOTO 10

Muirium · 13 Jan 2014, 20:37

Hack? It's spelled converter! Or is this something else entirely in the annals of Soarer magick?

7bit · 13 Jan 2014, 20:46

It is the same asshole seller who promised to pack properly and ships the boxes naked and they got wet and damaged!

mr_a500 · 13 Jan 2014, 20:50

Muirium wrote:Hack? It's spelled converter! Or is this something else entirely in the annals of Soarer magick?

Are you saying there's a syntax error in my BASIC program?

wheybags · 13 Jan 2014, 20:53

7bit wrote:It is the same asshole seller who promised to pack properly and ships the boxes naked and they got wet and damaged!

He said he'd instruct them to double box mine

Dubsgalore · 13 Jan 2014, 20:55

matt3o wrote:what the hell?!?!?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALPS-DOKIU-SAVE ... 1243389099

"one of a kind"

mr_a500 · 13 Jan 2014, 20:56

7bit wrote:It is the same asshole seller who promised to pack properly and ships the boxes naked and they got wet and damaged!

"Naked" boxes? The keyboard boxes seem sturdy enough to ship without damage to the keyboard - especially with all that styrofoam. I've had things shipped to me in much flimsier boxes. He can't have known the shipper would put them in water. No need to call the seller an "asshole" for that.

7bit · 13 Jan 2014, 21:01

You are obviously no true collector!

The true collector always collects the box along the item inside!

wheybags · 13 Jan 2014, 21:10

yeah, tbh if I'm buying a nib item I want the box to be in good nick

mr_a500 · 13 Jan 2014, 21:11

7bit wrote:You are obviously no true collector!

The true collector always collects the box along the item inside!

I can understand collecting boxes that actually have something on them, but not a dusty old plain box.

Here are some of the boxes in my closet:

closet.JPG

But I don't need to keep the IBM keyboard box. The next time you're in Canada, I'll personally give you my IBM keyboard box... for free.