Author Topic: [Ebay UK] Unknown Old Packard Bell US layout keyboard (Read 3785 times)

IBI · « **on:** Thu, 28 May 2009, 09:55:47 »

Linky

Looks like it's early 90s at the latest, can anyone identify it?

itlnstln · « **Reply #1 on:** Thu, 28 May 2009, 09:58:13 »

I'm not sure, but it looks vaguely like the Dell version of the AT-101W.

ch_123 · « **Reply #2 on:** Thu, 28 May 2009, 10:42:25 »

Is it one of these?

IBI · « **Reply #3 on:** Fri, 29 May 2009, 09:49:07 »

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Is it one of these?

It looks pretty close to me.

watduzhkstand4 · « **Reply #4 on:** Fri, 29 May 2009, 11:04:27 »

wow that other one was sold for $79. Are these blue alps as rare as the pink alps? What makes it worth so much money?

itlnstln · « **Reply #5 on:** Fri, 29 May 2009, 11:07:03 »

Pretty much any color other than white and black (real) Alps are pretty rare. I think there is some info in the Wiki about what the differences between the different colors is (like one of them is linear; yellow, I think), but I couldn't tell you what the differences are off the top of my head.

sandy55 · « **Reply #6 on:** Sat, 30 May 2009, 09:10:00 »

The board was made by Forward. see this page .
Mine came with white ALPSs. switches and the face plate of my board were in very bad condition so I repainted the face plate and swapped whole switches to orange alps harvested from APPLE m0115.

IBI · « **Reply #7 on:** Sun, 31 May 2009, 09:32:23 »

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wow that other one was sold for $79.

This one still doesn't have any bids on it, so it looks like if anyone's interested they'll be getting it for fairly cheap.

IBI · « **Reply #8 on:** Tue, 02 June 2009, 10:06:18 »

It went for £6, if any geekhacker got it I'd be interested to hear which type of alps it had.

xyzzy · « **Reply #9 on:** Tue, 02 June 2009, 11:50:00 »

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It went for £6

Uh? If I click the auction link it shows only one bid for the opening price of £1.99

Edit, ok ok maybe you meant including shipping within UK.

IBI · « **Reply #10 on:** Tue, 02 June 2009, 16:46:26 »

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Uh? If I click the auction link it shows only one bid for the opening price of £1.99

Edit, ok ok maybe you meant including shipping within UK.

Yeah, when the delivery is twice the price of the item it doesn't make much sense not to include it, and I assume it's gone to someone in the UK as the listing says "dispatches to: UK".

xyzzy · « **Reply #11 on:** Wed, 03 June 2009, 02:25:13 »

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I assume it's gone to someone in the UK as the listing says "dispatches to: UK".

TBH I did contact the seller and asked if he was willing to ship outside UK, he said it was fine. He also said the keyboard was clicky, so it's probably got white or blue Alps.
For a moment I thought of bidding to get a taste of clicky Alps. Then I realized I am already stacking up too many keyboards I don't use and I would never use one with US layout keyboard AND keypad.
I couldn't risk "the look" on this one. Maybe on a HHKB....

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Author Topic: [Ebay UK] Unknown Old Packard Bell US layout keyboard (Read 3785 times)