just received a Compaq 11800 (MX Brown), never used, in its original package, for 10 euro + national shipping, good deal no ?
I read that someone got one from 1986
Sounds strange as this looks like recent design, no windows keys but Euro symbol.
I hated MX black but I love brown feeling. This compaq is made in germany (by Cherry I guess, the caps lock symbol is cherry signature), and plastic and keycap quality is not as goos as what you can find on old keyboards, but typing is awesome, quite light so if there is a plate I don't think it's metal, this makes it a bit more noisy than if switches were fixed on a metal plate. I have no problem with noise^^ The thing I like with this one is that space or enter keys feel different to other keys, there must be some king of rubber pad under the keycaps to absorb shocks.
The layout is not classic but close enough to classic so you are not lost, left alt, ctrl and shift are not far from each other and I love that. Also the pause key is alone, nice idea as I use it to hibernate my PC
I also like the size factor, not too small, not too big, the trackball don't take too much space if you don't use it.
Well, for 10 euro it's a good deal IMO.