Great/Interesting Finds

[seebart]

Does this look like Blue Alps? If so I can take messages from interested people in order to keep the price down.

Hard to tell from that picture, could be Alps SKCL Grey too.

[Redmaus]

Either way I want it

[Blaise170]

Does this look like Blue Alps? If so I can take messages from interested people in order to keep the price down.

Hard to tell from that picture, could be Alps SKCL Grey too.

The Japanese listing says "Ash Shaft Alps" so perhaps grays. It's tempting for me to get too. I just wonder if those keycaps are dyesub or pad print...

[ohaimark]

Does this look like Blue Alps? If so I can take messages from interested people in order to keep the price down.

Lesson for you: never ever ever post the image using a URL from the website it's found on. It took me no time at all to find the auction you're looking at.

[Tuntematon]

Looks like the switch housing has the Alps logo on it, which blue Alps doesn't have.

[mastermachetier]

Does this look like Blue Alps? If so I can take messages from interested people in order to keep the price down.

Hard to tell from that picture, could be Alps SKCL Grey too.

The Japanese listing says "Ash Shaft Alps" so perhaps grays. It's tempting for me to get too. I just wonder if those keycaps are dyesub or pad print...

Man i love the Japanese legends so much !!

[Redmaus]

http://shop.j-subculture.com/items/deta ... F9EE7EFEE1

JP Realforce for sale on that site too

[Chyros]

Does this look like Blue Alps? If so I can take messages from interested people in order to keep the price down.

Nope, definitely not on a windows 95 board. Probably SKBM Grey.


Also that Focus is really nice, even though it's missing that cool dust cover. If the Omnikey is the best-built blue Alps board, the FK-2001/2002 is arguably the best-looking .

[Blaise170]

http://shop.j-subculture.com/items/deta ... F9EE7EFEE1

JP Realforce for sale on that site too

Thats just Yahoo JP through a proxy.

[Redmaus]

Ohhh.

Are the grey's worth buying the other keyboard for?

[ohaimark]

If you want the Greys badly enough, yes. It's difficult to say if a board is "worth" buying unless it's heinously overpriced or underpriced.

[Blaise170]

I want Grays but then again $140 after shipping is a lot.

[ohaimark]

It's on the upper end of fair pricing internationally, sure.

But $115 with shipping (roughly) for a NIB KB with a somewhat rare switch wouldn't be unreasonable for Japanese folks. It's the foreigners who suffer.

I wouldn't pay more than $75 for it.

[mastermachetier]

Does anyone know anything about this keyboard or switches ?

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[ohaimark]

FALCON BLACK -- what a badass name. And that alliteration!

No useful information here, but it reminds me of N64s for some reason... Probably Falco in Star Fox.

[Tuntematon]

Interesting space bar placement. For left thumb pressers only.

[Redmaus]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ibm-Model-F-Key ... true&rt=nc

Declined my offer

Did anyone here get it?

[lolpes]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ibm-Model-F-Key ... true&rt=nc

Declined my offer

Did anyone here get it?

I think this is another and cheaper

http://m.ebay.com/itm/BOS-1369969-IBM-S ... 0408.m2460

[ohaimark]

That's an M, not an F. Still a passable price, but not an excellent one.

[Crazy Canadian XXIV]

He was just after the numpad caps and caps lock. And that M comes with some extra, nice caps as well

[ohaimark]

Ahhh. Gotcha. The "BOS" key is kinda fun, for sure.

[Redmaus]

I think this is another and cheaper

http://m.ebay.com/itm/BOS-1369969-IBM-S ... 0408.m2460

I appreciate the offer, but the "." or "del" key is missing. I really want a blue set, but I don't want to have to scrounge around a long time just to find the missing piece. Unless someone had an extra they didn't care about.

EDIT: After checking out the other sweet keys like the caps lock, made an offer of 40$ hope they will accept. Notice they have more than one in quantity. Maybe I could get a donor from another board.

Or maybe the one pictured is already gone...

[Blaise170]

Ahhh. Gotcha. The "BOS" key is kinda fun, for sure.

I love my BOS M.

[Crazy Canadian XXIV]

Ahhh. Gotcha. The "BOS" key is kinda fun, for sure.

The Rule key, too. I wonder if Rules of Nature plays when you press it...

[Redmaus]

Ahhh. Gotcha. The "BOS" key is kinda fun, for sure.

The Rule key, too. I wonder if Rules of Nature plays when you press it...

If they accept my offer I am going to make that a keybind

[Crazy Canadian XXIV]

Ahhh. Gotcha. The "BOS" key is kinda fun, for sure.

The Rule key, too. I wonder if Rules of Nature plays when you press it...

If they accept my offer I am going to make that a keybind

Model Ms DO have a hole for a speaker...

[ohaimark]

I'm in the process of completing a large keyboard purchase. So far I've netted Yellow Alps, Green Alps, Cream Damped Alps, and MX Blacks. I was also sent a photo of the board below, which I'm not getting due to its foam & foil switches. I blotted out the logos on the board because it's too easy to find where my source is if I leave them.

Backstory (because this guy talks nonstop, bless his heart):

Turns out that the gentleman I'm buying from has his 500 keyboards due to jobless kids. He lived in a small town where his early-mid teens couldn't find work. He was at an auction one day and noticed a box of keyboards for $5. His KB was broken, so he bought the whole box. He looked up the prices (back in the late 90s/early 2000s?) and saw that they were selling for decent amounts, so he told his kids... "Sell these: you get 20% of the final sale price." He continued his purchasing to keep the youngsters busy. Apparently they took to the business well -- one started refurbishing IBM Wheelwriters and sold 16 to a school district somewhere or other for great justice. They've grown up and moved out since then, but I bet he still has the bent butter knife his kids used as a keycap puller somewhere.

I tracked his site down after a lot of Google trolling, but its email system was dysfunctional. I had to find another site he owned (with functional email) to get in touch. About 3 months after my initial email he contacted me -- I've been working with him to weed out the rubberdomes since last week. He even stayed true to his original pricing after seeing what the keyboards are going for nowadays.

I'm going to help him market whatever he doesn't sell to me on eBay because he's such a nice guy.

Back to keyboards.

Seriously, though. How many arrow keys and function keys does one need on a board that compact? Jesus.

[Khronokrator]

I found these after running one of my eBay search strings today:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-IBM-83- ... SwKtVWu9Yv

Model F XT. Seems dirty and I've never cared for that layout, but the price is quite a bit better than many of the XTs that go up for auction.

And these two as well--

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ibm-1801449-83- ... 7xP7JOI8dQ

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-4584656-Vin ... Sw5dNWj~wn

[ohaimark]

That? Dirty? HAH.

That's actually "I'd eat off that" material compared to some of the NSFL boards I've cleaned out. -shudders-

[rddm]

NIB http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Cherry-mode ... Swll1Wu9eo