Great/Interesting Finds

[Nuum]

This one will go high! I like the look of it.

[Halvar]

SSK in Germany:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/IBM-Model-M-SSK- ... 2516.l5255

Do you like MX brown?

http://www.ebay.de/itm/171673586994?_tr ... EBIDX%3AIT

Or 70's colors and RAFI switches (I think)?

http://www.ebay.de/itm/231167196686?_tr ... EBIDX%3AIT

[acolombo]

Philips Terminal Keyboard: http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... 18&alt=web

Televideo Terminal w/ keyboard: http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... 79&alt=web

[IKSLM]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/171673209321

Will be interesting to see how high this goes.

wow, currently @ 16,750.00EUR

[seebart]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/171673209321

Will be interesting to see how high this goes.

wow, currently @ 16,750.00EUR

[copter]

Last auction for C64DX ended with ~ 18.000 EUR. It will be interesting to see does this top that.

[IKSLM]

EUR 18,350.00 and 14 hours to go, nice

[pcaro]

That price is crazy

[Muirium]

I never realised any of the Commodore nutjobs ever grew up and had so much cash…

Those kids were so cheap! It was what defined their platform.

[Halvar]

You're too young to know that the cheap guys had Ataris...

[seebart]

Well some of those cheap kids now spend big £$€ on old prototypes. The Atari owners were the nerdier crowd.
I was a C64 kid and later a cool Amiga dude.[emoji1]

[crunch]

So it only went for 20 050 €, what a bargain.

[seebart]

So it only went for 20 050 €, what a bargain.

yeah I could build up a significant keyboard collection for that! Ridiculous.

[Touch_It]

So it only went for 20 050 €, what a bargain.

yeah I could build up a significant keyboard collection for that! Ridiculous.

Or you know..... Buy a car or a down payment on a house lol.

[andrewjoy]

Well some of those cheap kids now spend big £$€ on old prototypes. The Atari owners were the nerdier crowd.
I was a C64 kid and later a cool Amiga dude.[emoji1]

Was always an Arcon man myself. With its modern OS and super fast ARM chip, none of your slow ass 68k macs or 8088 PCs.

[Halvar]

Acorn was pretty much unavailable of on the continent at that time, or way too expensive. I agree, the RISC chips were great hardware at that time. Almost no software available though if I remenber correctly.

I was a C64/Amiga kid myself, too, like most German kids at that time that had a computer at all. Today it may look like everyone had one back then, but most kids my class were not interested, and many that had one just used it for playing. There wasn't much you could do with a C64 except either programming or playing.

The real nerd in our class during my C64 years had an Amstrad (Schneider) CPC that had a very powerful BASIC but essentially no software, and an Atari ST later, that except for the monitor had just really lame hardware.

[HAL]

Did someone say industrial SSK?
Should I get that http://www.ebay.com/itm/191512815506 ?

I predict a final price of more than USD 100.

[andrewjoy]

Almost no software available though if I remenber correctly.

Unless you had an A5000 ( i did not ), the A5000 could emulate a puny IBM . I t was powerful enough to do it in software.

[seebart]

Did someone say industrial SSK?
Should I get that http://www.ebay.com/itm/191512815506 ?

I predict a final price of more than USD 100.

Yes, slightly higher.

[HzFaq]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-PC-Tastat ... SS:GB:1120

I guess this has flagged up on everyone elses eBay alerts but just in case it hadn't...G80-2100.

[guk]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-PC-Tastat ... SS:GB:1120

I guess this has flagged up on everyone elses eBay alerts but just in case it hadn't...G80-2100.

Had hoped for this not being posted here. Next month breakfast's gonna be cereals with water instead of milk now.

[HzFaq]

It's too well labelled to go un-noticed.

I'll send you a carton of milk to keep you going though if you want .

[guk]

Of course, wasnt cereal about it. Thank you for your kind offer though!

[seebart]

I had not noticed that cherry thank you HzFaq.

[acolombo]

I found this. It is a Model M, am I right? Is there any possibility this couldn't be a buckling spring, or can I buy it pretty straight forward without overthinking about it? The price now is around 30€...

[dzhoou]

Definitely buckling springs. AFAIK grey labels M's don't have dome variants...

[Nuum]

There where rubberdome Model Ms, but I don't know how to differentiate those from the Buckling Spring ones, apart from the part number.

The only pictures I found of rubberdome Model Ms have blue on grey logos.

[bhtooefr]

AFAIK, rubber dome Ms were purely Lexmark-era, and manufacturing didn't start transitioning over to Lexmark until 1993 (even though Lexmark was formed in 1991). 1993 is also when they switched to blue labels.

Also, I think it's a damn shame that Acorn didn't try a second time to enter the US market, with the Archimedes line. (To be fair, the BBC Micro was an epic failure in the US, to the point that most of them were shipped back to the UK, converted to 230 VAC and PAL, and sold there. Part of that was that the NTSC conversion broke almost all software, and part of that was that they were selling a machine with 32 kiB RAM for the price of an Apple //e with 64 (even though the //e had a slower CPU and worse graphics and sound capabilities... but the //e had a reputation as a good educational computer here, and a huge software library, whereas the BBC Micro (which had the BBC reputation in its home market) had no reputation and no software library (due to the NTSC conversion).)) No guarantee that they would've succeeded, but with a bit of advertising, I think they could've at least had some more sales, which would've increased funds available for OS development.

[kbdfr]

According to this external tool, 13 people have this Cherry G81-3000 on their watch list:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/171682708167

Now guess why

[seebart]

G81 3000 SAD. It's not that rare?! Tell us why kbdfr!