Great/Interesting Finds
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- Location: Huntington Beach, CA
- Main keyboard: Zenithi ZKB-2
- Favorite switch: Micro Switch SW-Series
- JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0194
- Contact:
Not working That's pricey. Hopefully it can be brought back to it's former glory. It would at least make a neat display piece.forter4 wrote: ↑30 May 2020, 00:59So which one of you got the Dasher? lol
https://www.ebay.com/itm/174290497642?n ... 663.l10137
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- Location: republic of ireland
- Main keyboard: ducky zero shine
- Main mouse: zowie fk1+
- Favorite switch: mx blue
- ddrfraser1
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Changes weekly
- Main mouse: MX MASTER
- Favorite switch: Lubed 55g BKE Redux Domes
- Contact:
needs at least 3 characters so
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- Location: Austria, Vienna
- Main keyboard: currently IBM Model F XT
- Main mouse: nothing special
- Favorite switch: Capacitive Buckling Springs / Alps SKCM Brown
2000€ and he can't make one straight picture to show how it really looks like...gipetto wrote: ↑31 May 2020, 01:07steampunk model m for 2K euro.
https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Steampunk-Tasta ... 3951751103
- Weezer
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: IBM F122
- Main mouse: Dell 0KKMH5
- Favorite switch: IBM buckling spring & beam spring
Damn it! I've been looking for one of these for so long. This is literally my end game keyboard. You can't ask for more than a relegendable 122 key beamspring.JP! wrote: ↑27 May 2020, 23:23Whoa! Gone.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-TERMINAL-K ... SwJ15ezs8T
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I'm so salty about this.
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- Location: San Francisco
- Main keyboard: Das Keyboard
- Main mouse: Logitech
- Favorite switch: MicroSwitch Hall Effect
- DT Pro Member: 0240
Nicolet Instrument Spectrometer Keyboard
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184073109259
Looks like Oak full-travel with blue double shots. And high-end rotary encoder on the side. Missing key probably a deal breaker.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184073109259
Looks like Oak full-travel with blue double shots. And high-end rotary encoder on the side. Missing key probably a deal breaker.
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- Location: CZ
- Main keyboard: Kinesis Advantage2, JIS ThinkPad,…
- Main mouse: I like (some) trackballs, e.g., L-Trac
- Favorite switch: #vintage ghost Cherry MX Black (+ thick POM caps)
- DT Pro Member: -
CH Products DT225 trackball (white USB version) in Germany (if anyone's curious, that thing is built like a tank)
- subcat
- Location: Australia
- Main keyboard: HHKB Professional
- Main mouse: Zowie EC2-A
- Favorite switch: Topre
- DT Pro Member: -
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- Location: San Francisco
- Main keyboard: Das Keyboard
- Main mouse: Logitech
- Favorite switch: MicroSwitch Hall Effect
- DT Pro Member: 0240
Siemens 16/32 Keyboard
https://www.ebay.com/itm/283900338415
Coincidentally(?) just a few days after a mixed (+ cool looking, + solid build quality, ± weird layout, - crap switches, - doesn't work with Soarer's) review of one of these by Chyros.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/283900338415
Coincidentally(?) just a few days after a mixed (+ cool looking, + solid build quality, ± weird layout, - crap switches, - doesn't work with Soarer's) review of one of these by Chyros.
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- Location: Canada
- DT Pro Member: -
Here is another one with way more dials. Same switches though.MMcM wrote: ↑01 Jun 2020, 06:40Nicolet Instrument Spectrometer Keyboard
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184073109259
Looks like Oak full-travel with blue double shots. And high-end rotary encoder on the side. Missing key probably a deal breaker.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/333588905531
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
IBM 5110-3, pickup only!
https://link.marktplaats.nl/m1559238670
https://link.marktplaats.nl/m1559238670
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- Location: Huntington Beach, CA
- Main keyboard: Zenithi ZKB-2
- Favorite switch: Micro Switch SW-Series
Going to admit, I was willing to go up to $1K for it, but I gave up when it got to $1K because I realized that the guy put in his max bid probably well beyond I was willing to pay. So I didn't want to be a dick and raise it even moreJP! wrote: ↑30 May 2020, 02:00Not working That's pricey. Hopefully it can be brought back to it's former glory. It would at least make a neat display piece.forter4 wrote: ↑30 May 2020, 00:59So which one of you got the Dasher? lol
https://www.ebay.com/itm/174290497642?n ... 663.l10137
Felt bad that I got it up to $1K =/...sorry about that whoever bought it
- dcopellino
- Location: Italia - Napoli
- Main keyboard: IBM 4704 F400 brushed chrome
- Main mouse: Logitech laser wired
- Favorite switch: Buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0229
- Contact:
Hi webwit, are you telling us it's a piece not between your own belongings? Noah, I don't believe you!
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
Haha I don't have that one, and it's very nice, but I'm trying to get less, not more
P.S. The Internet says it's the heaviest desktop ever at 48 kg. That would explain the pickup only.
P.S. The Internet says it's the heaviest desktop ever at 48 kg. That would explain the pickup only.
- JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0194
- Contact:
Northgate Omnikey
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Northgate-Omni ... Sw7WBe2A2m
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Northgate-Omni ... Sw7WBe2A2m
- fohat
- Elder Messenger
- Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- Main keyboard: Model F 122-key terminal
- Main mouse: Microsoft Optical Mouse
- Favorite switch: Model F Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0158
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- Location: Canada
- Main keyboard: Model M SSK
- Main mouse: Corsair M65
- Favorite switch: Capacitive Buckling Spring
https://www.ebay.com/itm/133429933640
Chicony KB-5181, has Cherry MX Blues, i know from the picture attached to this post that the seller sent me.
Chicony KB-5181, has Cherry MX Blues, i know from the picture attached to this post that the seller sent me.
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- Location: Canada
- Main keyboard: Model M SSK
- Main mouse: Corsair M65
- Favorite switch: Capacitive Buckling Spring
https://www.ebay.com/itm/163981499387
Seems like smk vintage linear, fair price.
Seems like smk vintage linear, fair price.
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- Location: US
- Main keyboard: Omnikey 102 Blackheart
- Main mouse: Kensington Expert Mouse
- Favorite switch: White Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0174
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-NEW-MO ... SwQbVeyT3J
If nothing else, this seller's listings have some pretty great teardown photos.
On the one hand, I'm sort of intrigued if it has super-robust build quality (like an old CH DT225 trackball or the original PS/2 mice). On the other hand, most Soviet consumer electronics weren't that competitive to begin with. (I've heard some of their very best hi-fi stuff was comparable to mid-line Japanese)
I wonder what's going on behind the funky connector-- if it's designed for a nominally PC-compatible machine, maybe it speaks a familiar protocol where it could be wired through a chain of adapters to a modern machine, but it could equally well be wired to run on odd voltages or require a unique driver that only existed for PTS-DOS in 1990.
If nothing else, this seller's listings have some pretty great teardown photos.
On the one hand, I'm sort of intrigued if it has super-robust build quality (like an old CH DT225 trackball or the original PS/2 mice). On the other hand, most Soviet consumer electronics weren't that competitive to begin with. (I've heard some of their very best hi-fi stuff was comparable to mid-line Japanese)
I wonder what's going on behind the funky connector-- if it's designed for a nominally PC-compatible machine, maybe it speaks a familiar protocol where it could be wired through a chain of adapters to a modern machine, but it could equally well be wired to run on odd voltages or require a unique driver that only existed for PTS-DOS in 1990.
- JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0194
- Contact:
Dasher Round 2
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Data-General-D ... SwA6Be3DG3
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Data-General-D ... SwA6Be3DG3
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- Location: United States
that's for a liberty freedom terminalLekrafter wrote: ↑06 Jun 2020, 08:31https://www.ebay.com/itm/163981499387
Seems like smk vintage linear, fair price.
- dcopellino
- Location: Italia - Napoli
- Main keyboard: IBM 4704 F400 brushed chrome
- Main mouse: Logitech laser wired
- Favorite switch: Buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0229
- Contact:
Old Atarian nostalgic folks among us?
Definitely not noteworthy https://www.ebay.fr/itm/153926564985
Rubber dome crap
VS
Nice tactile MX blacks by Mitsumi old school, here
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/114251084750
I own one myself, easily adapted and plugged with teensy 2.0. The UNDO (CTRL+Z) Key is unpayable!
Definitely not noteworthy https://www.ebay.fr/itm/153926564985
Rubber dome crap
VS
Nice tactile MX blacks by Mitsumi old school, here
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/114251084750
I own one myself, easily adapted and plugged with teensy 2.0. The UNDO (CTRL+Z) Key is unpayable!
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- Location: Austria, Vienna
- Main keyboard: currently IBM Model F XT
- Main mouse: nothing special
- Favorite switch: Capacitive Buckling Springs / Alps SKCM Brown
Tactile MX blacks?dcopellino wrote: ↑08 Jun 2020, 15:22Nice tactile MX blacks by Mitsumi old school, here
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/114251084750
- dcopellino
- Location: Italia - Napoli
- Main keyboard: IBM 4704 F400 brushed chrome
- Main mouse: Logitech laser wired
- Favorite switch: Buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0229
- Contact:
I beg your pardon, even though it'd seem a non sense referring to an MX black as tactile and not linear, these late '90s version MX blacks, so gummy on actuation made me think of them as they were tactile. : climbing-mirrorEnthusiastDude wrote: ↑08 Jun 2020, 16:00Tactile MX blacks?dcopellino wrote: ↑08 Jun 2020, 15:22Nice tactile MX blacks by Mitsumi old school, here
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/114251084750
- JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0194
- Contact:
Cheap MicroSwitch board
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ITT-COURIER-KE ... SwOwJe4UP9
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ITT-COURIER-KE ... SwOwJe4UP9
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- Location: Canada
- Main keyboard: Model M SSK
- Main mouse: Corsair M65
- Favorite switch: Capacitive Buckling Spring
Wow nice find JP! Unfortunately it hot snatched extremely quick aswellJP! wrote: ↑10 Jun 2020, 22:49Cheap MicroSwitch board
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ITT-COURIER-KE ... SwOwJe4UP9
- wadeak78
- Location: Alaska, US
- Main keyboard: Televideo 965
- Favorite switch: White Space Invaders
- DT Pro Member: -
I got one of these from the same seller in worse condition. Expect crappy packaging and to pour dirt out of the case.JP! wrote: ↑10 Jun 2020, 22:49Cheap MicroSwitch board
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ITT-COURIER-KE ... SwOwJe4UP9