Great/Interesting Finds

[macmakkara]

http://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comm ... _keyboard/
Industrial SSK 950$

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Industrial-Gray ... 4ade7dcd81 This unit.

Basically a nice board... has some strong signs of wear... but kind of gives it even more character. But much too expensive, especially in this condition.

I would be tempted if the price was somewhere around 500$.

Yeah i just thought that might be interesting for someone there. Thats still pretty rare board. Also i just realized that industrial SSK don't have numpad partition on it?

[snoopy]

seems like the industrial ssks with the blue keys don't have the numpad printings. the 'normal' industrial ssks have it.

this was a crazy auction, I remember it... http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Personal-Sy ... 7675.l2557

too bad the pics are already gone.

[webwit]

Mine doesn't have them either (zooom):

Spoiler:

[snoopy]

would love to have one of those with blue keys for my collection, but seems like mission impossible if one doesn't have a ton of money...

[crunch]

Kinesis Advantage USB Keyboard, KB500USB-BLK.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kinesis-Advan ... 339999b77b

[gogusrl]

NIB yellow alps (or clones)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310527855294? ... EBIDX%3AIT

NIB MX blue with arabic sublegends (looks pad printed)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271643935336? ... EBIDX%3AIT


edit : fixed links

[photekq]

Both the same link gogus ^

[crunch]

Chicony KB-6011 with Aristotle Cherry MX clone I think

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chicony-Keybo ... ?#shpCntId

[gogusrl]

don't forget about the G81-3079SAD that ends in 19 hours.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-Tastatur- ... 3a9c4047bb

[andrewjoy]

Chicony KB-6011 with Aristotle Cherry MX clone I think

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chicony-Keybo ... ?#shpCntId

hmm tempting at that price even for clones

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Chicony KB-6011 with Aristotle Cherry MX clone I think

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chicony-Keybo ... ?#shpCntId

Fascinating. I've just written to my contact at Chicony to see if he can shed any light on that — I'm wondering if Chicony took over Nan Tan's keyboard production when Clevo bought Nan Tan, because it seems so odd that Chicony started making Nan Tan keyboards, and under Unikey's FCC ID, and the keyboard changed to Chicony's preferred switch (Aristotle) instead of the Alps clones that Nan Tan was using.

[crunch]

Ortek MCK-142 Pro
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Keyboard-MCK-142 ... 35e0f34a73

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Re the KB-6011 — Unikey is confirmed as a subsidiary of Chicony and Chicony have ties with Clevo. I suspect that they did indeed take over the mechanical keyboard manufacturing from Nan Tan, although this goes back longer than my contact has worked there and he doesn't think anyone there still remembers (being around twenty years ago!)

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Interestingly, Unikey was previously associated with Nan Tan:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=40496.0

[Muirium]

Ortek MCK-142 Pro
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Keyboard-MCK-142 ... 35e0f34a73

Alps? I can't find much about that keyboard (just a lot of old, dead links) besides this postively Cambrian thread at GH:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=4242.0

Pretty remarkable that one even survived. Here's the link it mentions, which is now dead but saved by the Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/200802090703 ... ck142.com/

Anyone here got one of these Orteks or has an informed opinion of it?

[crunch]

Here is a thread about it.
http://deskthority.net/ebay-co-uk-f69/o ... t1415.html
and this.
http://deskthority.net/post14153.html?h ... tek#p14153

[Hypersphere]

IBM Displaywriter Beam Spring BIN 250 USD.

IBM_DW.jpg (231.79 KiB) Viewed 5508 times

Fairly reasonable price. Apparently has a cracked spacebar, but otherwise appears to be in good shape.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Another Ortek MCK142Pro thread:

http://deskthority.net/f-o-r-s-a-l-e-f5 ... t4799.html

[Halvar]

Not sure if it's great or interesting but it looks pretty cool:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Dachbodenfund-al ... 2a47a785e7

:O azerty beamspring.

Who ended up getting that nice "compact" beam spring board?

[Muirium]

One of the good guys! (Not me, but I know…)

[mr_a500]

IBM Displaywriter Beam Spring BIN 250 USD.

IBM_DW.jpg

Fairly reasonable price. Apparently has a cracked spacebar, but otherwise appears to be in good shape.

Just a couple years ago, this would be an outrageous price. How times have changed. I've noticed sellers now listing any old keyboard for $300-$1200, things that used to go for $20. I tried to offer a seller a "reasonable" $200 for a keyboard I considered worth $75, but he turned it down instantly. He wants over $700. What a time to live in.

I don't know how HaaTa keeps buying keyboards. He must be rich.

[Muirium]

What a time to live in.

I don't know how HaaTa keeps buying keyboards. He must be rich.

Yeah, he's a keyboarding playboy! There are worse things to spend it on, of course, and he shares so he's still on the right side!

[gogusrl]

Chyron with exposed MX white(or clear) switch 45$ BIN with free shipping in the US

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chyron-Duet-KYB ... 0#viTabs_0


edit : and an ortek numpad (no clue what's inside)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORTEK-EXTERNAL- ... 3a9b107026

[BlueBär]

I'd say that's a clear, I don't see a nub on top of the slider.

[photekq]

G81-1901HAF, NIB

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-G81-1901 ... 3399a3fed4

[dyger]

Dirty Wyse 50(?)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WYSE-WY75-Termi ... 0983880146

and a Reynolds+Reynolds board that looks pretty similar

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Reynolds-Reynol ... 0808646387

[HzFaq]

IBM Laptop, has some kind of ALPs (brown?) apparently.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-IBM-5 ... _25wt_1399

[Ichigo87]

Nixdorf laptop (doubleshot ? MX compatible vintage black ?)
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/321604155214?ssP ... 1423.l2649

SUN type 4
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/371203580196?ssP ... 1423.l2649

SGI SILICON GRAPHICS KEYBOARD CLAVIER P/N 021-0800-001 DB9
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/371204624082?ssP ... 1423.l2649

SGI SILICON GRAPHICS KEYBOARD INDIGO - INDIGO 2 CLAVIER P/N 9500801
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/371205227519?ssP ... 1423.l2649

[ramnes]

I think this one might be mechanical:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Autoperf-S ... 1c4a673947

[elecplus]

Russian old keyboard

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UKNC-MS-0511- ... 0857963982