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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: ag36 on Sun, 17 June 2018, 14:43:47

Title: Thinks of using NIB keyboards?
Post by: ag36 on Sun, 17 June 2018, 14:43:47

Here's the NIB SSK I've brought from orihalcon, well no longer nib from today.

While SSK isn't that rare.

How do you think about using nib rare keyboards? Blasphemy or letting the keyboard in the way it meant to be?

Title: Re: Thinks of using NIB keyboards?
Post by: Sup on Sun, 17 June 2018, 14:57:08

I wouldn't use it If i was a collector. And it all depends on what kind of keyboard it is. Like the SSK i would sell it for a high price and then buy a second hands for cheaper, Because a SSK is a super tank anyway and the NIB would feel almost the same as a secondhand.

Title: Re: Thinks of using NIB keyboards?
Post by: pixelpusher on Sun, 17 June 2018, 16:33:39

I would use it without hesitation.  I have several NIB vintage boards that I use occasionally.  You don’t have to worry about wear with the switches or the caps on that SSK so why not?

Also, model m NIB doesn’t necessarily mean good condition.  I have one that I bought “barely used” with original box and papers, but over 1/2 of the plastic rivets were broken. 

Clack away on that bad boy.

Title: Re: Thinks of using NIB keyboards?
Post by: ag36 on Sun, 17 June 2018, 20:21:55

Thanks for the inputs, personally I have no problem on using a nib just wondering how other people think of it. After all I brought this SSK to use it(my 4th SSK).