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Offline lolpes

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Olivetti WS 785 x 3 aka early Christmas!
« on: Sat, 05 December 2015, 11:32:42 »
There was an olivetti 785 NIB in Portugal for sale. I had been talking with the seller for some time(presented my masters thesis this week, so no time for keyboards :p) and managed to go and see the boards for myself today....yes boards! Turns out the seller had 3 of these puppies brand new, and 1 of them was even sealed! The other was complete but unsealed. and the third one was only the keyboard itself in box. I will put here a mini gallery I did on the unboxing of the NIB one, and some pics of the others, enjoy, i surely did :D

The 3 boxes:



Unboxing:

The box itself, pretty big box I would say :p



Opening the box:



Contents: The keyboard, instruction manual, power cable for something...and replacement caps! :o will show those in detail next.



Ok so here is the keyboard itself:





Detail of the replacement caps. These include an alternate enter key, and caps to enable different language layouts:



Only 2 of the boxes had these, one of them is still sealed.



Thin SP doubleshot plastic blue on light gray, blue on dark gray for F row.

The 3 keyboards!



Detail for the opened one:




Mx blacks, don't know if vintage or not, looking at the logo, looks like normal blacks i think(someone correct me if I am wrong):



Big spacebar! but detail for the black metal plate and pcb mounted stabs :D




Any other pics you should want please say :) I still have to open one of these up but I have to get to work. Hope you enjoyed, i know I did :D
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Re: Olivetti WS 785 x 3 aka early Christmas!
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 05 December 2015, 23:05:41 »
What a magnificent space bar! :D
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Re: Olivetti WS 785 x 3 aka early Christmas!
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 06 December 2015, 03:18:33 »
Holy crap what a big spacebar! Is that like, 9.75x??

That's a great haul too.
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Re: Olivetti WS 785 x 3 aka early Christmas!
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 06 December 2015, 04:06:43 »
Quote from: katushkin on Sun, 06 December 2015, 03:18:33
Holy crap what a big spacebar! Is that like, 9.75x??

That's a great haul too.

It is big, isn't it!

I can hardly keep my eyes off it :eek:
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Re: Olivetti WS 785 x 3 aka early Christmas!
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 06 December 2015, 04:49:57 »
That case looks like its made from fantastic plastic, really thick and durable looking, I can imagine it would last long. May I ask how heavy the board is itself?

AND THAT SPACEBAR! If I put that in my pants I'd pull all the birds at the club
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Re: Olivetti WS 785 x 3 aka early Christmas!
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 07 December 2015, 07:56:36 »
Well I got a good laugh reading the comments and for a while it will be difficult to look at that spacebar the same way again xD
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