[UK] 1391406, "Spares or repair"

[InSanCen]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IBM-ENHANCED-CLICKY-KEYBOARD-1391406-SPARES-OR-REPAIR_W0QQitemZ380149749863QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_ComputerComponents_KeyboardsMice?hash=item5882b0d867&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Missing a leg, and a few caps by the sound of it... watch the postage though (£15!)

[InSanCen]

True, hence I rarely buy unless I can try first.

I might make that Black M13 in the classifieds an exception though.

[dw_junon]

Keycaps, not capacitors I'm guessing.  F5 and right arrow, what are those in Farads?  Also, there's the business about "ALL KEYS WORKING ." (a Caps Lock might be, somewhere...).

Fifteen quid postage is a right rip off, but this is what some eBay sellers do, I guess it's how they make their money.  This is sort of like those times hope this random mid-sentence fragment will not be noticed by people with short attention spans when people with laptops to sell think that thirty quid or more is a sensible price for postage.

The space bar is likely original (and with earthing [grounding] wire).  See http://www.9999hp.net/keyboard/temp/1391406.jpg

Anyway, potentially a deal by my standards so long as the bid stays in single figures.

[InSanCen]

Keycaps, not capacitors I'm guessing.

Indeed.

I'm not bidding on this, no way will I touch that P&P on principal. So GeekHacker's feel free to bid away.

[lowpoly]

Or a blown controller by someone hotplugging a PS/2 port.

Is that really still a problem? I remember that you could kill the ps/2 circuits on the motherboard some years ago. Modern motherboards shouldn't have a problem.

[JBert]

Look if it got some kind inrush current limiter - if they didn't forget about one, they probably figured out your PS/2 keyboard may suck quite some current at bootup.