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Title: NIB IBM Model F AT
Post by: Daimakaimura on Sun, 01 April 2018, 07:55:21: Since no one has posted yet --- I guess --- here it goes, for "only" $1650 a NIB IBM Model F AT:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NIB-Vintage-IBM-Model-F-AT-Keyboard/183156524418?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140107095009%26meid%3De450667320be48ebb61f2f2cb6581419%26pid%3D100040%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D183156524418%26itm%3D183156524418&_trksid=p2046732.c100040.m2060 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NIB-Vintage-IBM-Model-F-AT-Keyboard/183156524418?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140107095009%26meid%3De450667320be48ebb61f2f2cb6581419%26pid%3D100040%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D183156524418%26itm%3D183156524418&_trksid=p2046732.c100040.m2060)
This hobby certainly becoming expensive.
Title: Re: NIB IBM Model F AT
Post by: Giorgio on Sun, 01 April 2018, 08:41:11: Unicomp is going to sell a SSK and a model F keyboard. Soon^TM.
Title: Re: NIB IBM Model F AT
Post by: mike52787 on Sun, 01 April 2018, 08:59:39: Quote from: Giorgio on Sun, 01 April 2018, 08:41:11
Unicomp is going to sell a SSK and a model F keyboard. Soon^TM.
Sure, when Lucifer is skating on the river Styx
Title: Re: NIB IBM Model F AT
Post by: Techno Trousers on Sun, 01 April 2018, 09:08:12: Gotta get that $60 for shipping on top, too!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/183156524418
Title: Re: NIB IBM Model F AT
Post by: chyros on Sun, 01 April 2018, 12:32:06: Quote from: Giorgio on Sun, 01 April 2018, 08:41:11
Unicomp is going to sell a SSK and a model F keyboard. Soon^TM.
They never even made Model F keyboards at Lexington :)) .
Title: Re: NIB IBM Model F AT
Post by: Daimakaimura on Mon, 02 April 2018, 03:07:21: I don't really understand Unicomp's strategy --- if any. There is obviously a market for buckling spring keyboards beyond what they are selling now. A new model F or even a modern high quality buckling springs keyboard with a 60% or 75% layout would likely sell well and compete with all the cherry-mx-compatible-aluminium-cases out there.
Title: Re: NIB IBM Model F AT
Post by: Giorgio on Mon, 02 April 2018, 17:21:06: Quote from: Daimakaimura on Mon, 02 April 2018, 03:07:21
I don't really understand Unicomp's strategy --- if any. There is obviously a market for buckling spring keyboards beyond what they are selling now. A new model F or even a modern high quality buckling springs keyboard with a 60% or 75% layout would likely sell well and compete with all the cherry-mx-compatible-aluminium-cases out there.

Me neither. A guy with no engineering degree has-almost- been able to resurrect the model f, raising 400 thousand dollars in orders. They could have easily reached one million in first round orders.
Title: Re: NIB IBM Model F AT
Post by: ander on Tue, 03 April 2018, 17:49:08: I think Unicomp would insist on making them in the U.S., though, not China—and do you think they could afford to tool up for such a thing?

Actually, though, the Model F manufacturing gear could still be tucked away there, couldn't it? Maybe all the stuff for original-quality Model Ms, too—even SSKs of everything, banking boards, etc. ... It's a huge place, after all:

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(Those are normal-sized houses around it.)

What a tantalizing prospect. Unfortunately, they don't seem very motivated. I think they used up whatever energy and imagination they had creating their own boards.