Great/Interesting Finds

[Wodan]

Just for your amusements, this guys product descriptions are so hillarious:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/201682071504
Check out his other items and read the descriptions, too. He's got so many things wrong ...

There is NOTHING ANSI about this keyboard yet he markets it as a dual layout keyboard!

[seebart]

Just for your amusements, this guys product descriptions are so hillarious:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/201682071504
Check out his other items and read the descriptions, too. He's got so many things wrong ...

There is NOTHING ANSI about this keyboard yet he markets it as a dual layout keyboard!

Ahh brilliant, but this part is the best:

"Zwei Layouts für einen Preis" = two layouts for the price of one.

[tentator]

check this out: https://www.ricardo.ch/kaufen/haushalt- ... 852292356/
looks interesting to me.. what switches could it have?

tent:wq

[ohaimark]

check this out: https://www.ricardo.ch/kaufen/haushalt- ... 852292356/
looks interesting to me.. what switches could it have?

tent:wq

It's similar in style to some foam & foil keyboards that XMIT showed me, though that isn't a definitive answer.

[tentator]

never tried foam and foil.. not sure if it would appeal me.. (I'm into tactile switches, even better if clicky ) but this one has particularly beautiful caps.. but I think rather difficult to use on mx stems or ibm, right?

also the computer looks to be in very nice condition, probably even working, so it would be a little bit a pity and should rather go to some serious collector..

[E3E]

That keyboard is a mindfuck, E3E! I love it.

Hahaha, thank you, my good sir! Yeah, it was kind of built as a joke (albeit with so many rare parts ), but it's become a favorite.

I've never seen Cherry profile with Alps stem! I assume this requires a lot of donor stems and lots of time and patience for modding the stems?

The MAJORITY of the key caps come from an iteration of the Tai Hao FAME TH-5539 keyboards.

Yep, Tai Hao actually had Cherry profile molds for ABS doubleshots with Alps stems back in the day, confirmed by an email with them!

I did stem mod the ANSI keys, as the caps came in a BAE and short shift (Focus) layout.

I actually have an earlier version of the TH-5539 that had Cherry profile pad-printed key caps. Weird, and only good for making blanks, but good quality mold still.

[XMIT]

check this out: https://www.ricardo.ch/kaufen/haushalt- ... 852292356/
looks interesting to me.. what switches could it have?

tent:wq

It's similar in style to some foam & foil keyboards that XMIT showed me, though that isn't a definitive answer.

Oh, that's really pretty.

Looking closely at the legends, the profiles, and the fact that this one was made in Japan, I'm going to say Alps vintage tee mount with Alps vintage spherical caps.

[Hypersphere]

The Ai system is reminiscent of a Honeywell Hall Effect, although the caps don't look quite tall enough. Difficult to say from the pics.

[XMIT]

The Ai system is reminiscent of a Honeywell Hall Effect, although the caps don't look quite tall enough. Difficult to say from the pics.

The font is wrong, IMO.

[hypkx]

Have anyone a idea what this keyboard could be and switch it use (topre?):
http://m.ebay.de/itm/FM-TOWNS-II-MX-Fuj ... ING_ACTIVE

[tentator]

I think green alps

the viedogame looks terrificly great if I think how old that was!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnFoSoc ... e=youtu.be

[BinaryHalibut]

Industrial M13

...let the bidding wars begin.

[Wodan]

Industrial M13

...let the bidding wars begin.

This one was born Feb 4, 1999 and built for IBM by Unicomp. This is the only series of IBM branded Model M13's that did not have a true trackpoint. This version comes with Unicomp's track stick instead, which acts more like a little mini-joystick, instead of like a relatively immobile pressure sensing Trackpoint.

eeeeew.

[BinaryHalibut]

I mean it's still industrial, it's still an M13, and it's still NiB. People pay upwards of 100 used for the black M13s, and those have crappy pad-printed legends.

[Techno Trousers]

You could take the innards from an old school beige IBM M-13 and drop it into one of Unicomp's overstock industrial gray cases (still being sold), and you'd end up with a superior overall keyboard to this.

But I suppose if you're a speculator or collector, this might be an okay investment.

[chzel]

...and drop it into one of Unicomp's overstock industrial gray cases (still being sold)...

Didn't we grab the last of them in the MF project?

[fohat]

Didn't we grab the last of them in the MF project?

That's what I thought, but they do have the equipment to make full-size cases, so if they can mix up the right color of plastic, they can probably make as many as they want.

[Techno Trousers]

...and drop it into one of Unicomp's overstock industrial gray cases (still being sold)...

Didn't we grab the last of them in the MF project?

I just checked, and they still have them listed on their warehouse liquidations page for $30.

[Hypersphere]

Northgate Omnikey 101 Mechanical Keyboard SKCM White Alps Switches BIN $115

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Northgate-Omnik ... OSwNRdX9~F~

[Norman_]

Northgate Omnikey 101 Mechanical Keyboard SKCM White Alps Switches BIN $115

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Northgate-Omnik ... OSwNRdX9~F~

Gone 10 minutes later, lol

[Jimi14]

122 key cherry mx clear (or maybe a clone? hard to tell from the distance) board.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-DCA-IRM ... SwTA9X9Ubc

Ares Branded Focus FK-8000. (in need of repair though)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ares-Branded-Fo ... SwLnBX9ckf

Olivetti ANK 25-101
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Olivetti-ANK-25 ... SwLF1X8SpJ

[Hypersphere]

That Olivetti is beautiful. More's the pity that it is rubber dome!

[Hypersphere]

NMB Technologies RT8251C Keyboard - ANSI Space Invaders One of a Kind?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NMB-Technologie ... 1963228025

[002]

That Olivetti is beautiful. More's the pity that it is rubber dome!

They are excellent rubber domes though! If I didn't already have two I'd be all over it.

[Hypersphere]

What do the Olivetti rubber domes feel like when typing? Is there any tactility at all, as with Topre switches?

[ramnes]

Imagine Topre switches with a 1/3 shorter travel.

I'm hesitating to get it myself. It's rare to see an ANSI one for sale in Europe, even more in that condition...

[002]

They have a very substantial and weighty tactility, for lack of a better description. This, combined with a very short throw (IIRC ~2mm) makes them quite unique and not really like rubber dome keyboards that most people are familiar with.

[kbdfr]

122 key cherry mx clear (or maybe a clone? hard to tell from the distance) board.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-DCA-IRM ... SwTA9X9Ubc
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The upper shell looks exactly like the very first generation G80-2100, where the housing still was 1000-like:

G80-2100, first generation.jpg (519.09 KiB) Viewed 4380 times

[gogusrl]

Thread about it here : https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=62178.0

[E TwentyNine]

122 key cherry mx clear (or maybe a clone? hard to tell from the distance) board.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-DCA-IRMA-3270-Keyboard-

That's Cherry built, likely mid/late 1980's, I have one just like it.