Great/Interesting Finds

[amospalla]

I've seen on a second hand mobile application (wallapop, don't know how to take images from it) two clones of IBM keyboards, one is a clone of IBM Model F AT (din connector) which by the photos seems the Philips clone with space invaders, and a Model M clone with HP brand, each one sold by a few.

[pcaro]

I've seen on a second hand mobile application (wallapop, don't know how to take images from it) two clones of IBM keyboards, one is a clone of IBM Model F AT (din connector) which by the photos seems the Philips clone with space invaders, and a Model M clone with HP brand, each one sold by a few.

I wonder to buy the Model F clone without response in 3 weeks...

[Blaise170]

Really? Three of them a while back had MX Blacks with a contamination shield over them. I guess there are different versions?

Edit: see the listing below.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Fluke-1720A-P ... 7675.l2557

MX mount but not Cherry. See:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41229.0

[tentator]

Really? Three of them a while back had MX Blacks with a contamination shield over them. I guess there are different versions?

Edit: see the listing below.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Fluke-1720A-P ... 7675.l2557

MX mount but not Cherry. See:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41229.0

Difficult to see one of those here in Europe I guess. .
The caps look great to me..!

[ohaimark]

These TI boards may have Green Alps for $55. Mine, which I sold a while back, did. Troublesome layout, so really only good as a donor board.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TI-924-Terminal ... 1904076743

[Redmaus]

Gonna PM the seller about it.

[andrewjoy]

What are the caps like ? They look ok from the picture !

If there are multiple i would not mind a set of green alps and caps.

[Redmaus]

Someone just bought one. I might not have time to get a response from the seller!

How sure are you that the board is green alps Mark?

[ohaimark]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Texas-Instrumen ... 1648394313

This is what I'm basing it on.

[idollar]

SSK at DE:

600 euros

NEW IBM Model M SSK Space Saving Keyboard / Tastatur NIB CIB Factory Sealed

[idollar]

And from the same seller, a second SSK:

IBM Model M SSK Space Saving Keyboard / Tastatur

[kbdfr]

SSK at DE:

600 euros

NEW IBM Model M SSK Space Saving Keyboard / Tastatur NIB CIB Factory Sealed

And from the same seller, a second SSK:

IBM Model M SSK Space Saving Keyboard / Tastatur

Already discussed before:
other-external-f66/great-interesting-fi ... ml#p288709

[jbondeson]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Texas-Instrumen ... 1648394313

This is what I'm basing it on.

Seller updated with a picture verifying the green alp goodness. Thanks for the heads up ohaimark!

[XMIT]

I'm glad that all of you find green, brown, and yellow Alps appealing because I find these somewhat often and simply don't find linear switches to be all that interesting (apart from magnetic valve and Hall effect of course). Isn't a green Alps just the same as some other Alps with the tactile/click leaf removed?

Now a silenced orange Alps, that would be something.

[ohaimark]

Seller updated with a picture verifying the green alp goodness. Thanks for the heads up ohaimark!

No problem. They be selling like hotcakes fo sho.

[Blaise170]

Haha now that the seller knows what they are worth, they are declining offers.

[Redmaus]

TI keyboard is gone now. I bought two, I also PM'd the seller and he confirmed it was green alps.

[ohaimark]

What are the caps like ? They look ok from the picture !

If there are multiple i would not mind a set of green alps and caps.

The caps are moderately thick. Dye-sub, but likely ABS due to the yellowing I saw on mine.

Edit: I bet the seller is kicking himself for not listing them at a higher price.

[Redmaus]

He seemed pretty chill when I PM'd him.

I think he just wanted them gone.

[scottc]

ohaimark, you know ABS and dyesub are mutually ezclusive? If they're ABS then they're likely pad printed or similar.

[Muirium]

Yup. ABS melts at the kind of temperature dye sublimation requires.

Because ABS is shitty, second rate, craptastic stuff!

[Tuntematon]

ABS - Acrylonitrile Bullshit

It's right there in the name.

Edit: I kid. ABS isn't so bad, just DON"T TOUCH IT!

[Muirium]

The S actually stands for styrene: think styrofoam. Which is even worse in my opinion!

[Redmaus]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Keyboard-Adam-C ... 1140247672

Coleco adamvision keyboard

http://www.ebay.com/itm/KidBoard-Inc-Mo ... 1730046395

I think that might be alps

[Tuntematon]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TI-924-Terminal ... SwDuJWzTWp

Did this guy cancel everyone's orders or does he really have 8 more?

Nvm, it's his last one, he just didn't update the quantity.

[Redmaus]

This is the first time I was one of those people that got it while it was cheap

Two of those boards I got with an offer of 100$

[Tuntematon]

This is the first time I was one of those people that got it while it was cheap

Two of those boards I got with an offer of 100$

Congrats, not a bad deal. I was in real early on these (last night) but I just spent my last keyboard monies on a nice minty looking blue Alps Focus FK-2001. I'm pretty happy but, alas, I had to sit this one out. Too much good stuff lately.

[Redmaus]

Wait did you buy the one at 360$?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Microterm-5510- ... SwUuFWzf-O

Yellow alps

[Tuntematon]

Nope! I managed to find one much cheaper (2015 blue Alps price, RIP) and nicer. It was so hidden you could only find it by accident

[Redmaus]

Could you show me the link? Curious