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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: TexasFlood on Mon, 28 June 2010, 21:09:49

Title: Auction ended wtih no bids-$1 LOT OF 22 IBM KEYBOARDS+3 MICE, Brooklyn NY pickup only
Post by: TexasFlood on Mon, 28 June 2010, 21:09:49

If you're in Brooklyn NY, you have 1/2 hr to get 22 IBM keyboards + 3 mice (http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-22-IBM-KEYBOARDS-/290447527383?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item43a0058dd7) for $1.

They don't look like jewels, but if you need some decent beaters...

(http://i.ebayimg.com/17/%21BvuWdRg%212k%7E$%28KGrHqN,%21i8Ev1+0FFtKBMFtffZ%28Wg%7E%7E_12.JPG)

Title: $1 LOT OF 22 IBM KEYBOARDS + 3 MICE, Brooklyn NY pickup only
Post by: kishy on Mon, 28 June 2010, 21:55:59

They're bad even as beaters.

Title: $1 LOT OF 22 IBM KEYBOARDS + 3 MICE, Brooklyn NY pickup only
Post by: TexasFlood on Mon, 28 June 2010, 21:59:21

Quote from: kishy;197429

They're bad even as beaters.

Probably right.  If they're what I think they are, I have a couple and they live in a box.  But if I needed a keyboard with a reasonable layout for rough or risky conditions, that I didn't mind losing or breaking, it would probably be those, :wink:.

Title: $1 LOT OF 22 IBM KEYBOARDS + 3 MICE, Brooklyn NY pickup only
Post by: EverythingIBM on Mon, 28 June 2010, 23:35:29

COOL!

I'd love to have 22 black IBM rubber dome keyboards, that'd be awesome! I wouldn't want the 3 ugly microsoft mice though.

Sadly I don't live in brooklyn. I'm not a plumber lol.

Title: $1 LOT OF 22 IBM KEYBOARDS + 3 MICE, Brooklyn NY pickup only
Post by: Dirty Bint on Tue, 29 June 2010, 03:57:16

Quote from: EverythingIBM;197446

COOL!

I'm not a plumber lol.

Plumbers earn real good money in the UK, approx $120USD per hour. No shame in being a plumber on $220,000 per year including 6 weeks paid holidays for a 40 hour week.

Plumb On........, perhaps I should become a "Dirty Plumber"


Rgds
Dirty Bint

Title: $1 LOT OF 22 IBM KEYBOARDS + 3 MICE, Brooklyn NY pickup only
Post by: aegrotatio on Tue, 29 June 2010, 13:29:42

In my local computer shop I found that these two-tone IBM keyboards are OEMed for IBM by "Micro Innovations."  They made a few different keyboards with blue Enter keys and the space-saving pageup/down layout, a folding keyboard, and at least one wireless keyboard under the "IBM" brand label used under license.

Best thing I can say about them is that they're two-tone and have a great texture.

Much like AT&T Trimline phones at K-Mart are OEMed by "Advanced American Telephones."

Title: $1 LOT OF 22 IBM KEYBOARDS + 3 MICE, Brooklyn NY pickup only
Post by: EverythingIBM on Wed, 30 June 2010, 00:40:42

Quote from: ripster;197667

The mice are the best part of that box.  Either that or the cardboard.

Such sourness towards IBM stuff.

Quote from: aegrotatio;197665

In my local computer shop I found that these two-tone IBM keyboards are OEMed for IBM by "Micro Innovations."  They made a few different keyboards with blue Enter keys and the space-saving pageup/down layout, a folding keyboard, and at least one wireless keyboard under the "IBM" brand label used under license.

Best thing I can say about them is that they're two-tone and have a great texture.

Much like AT&T Trimline phones at K-Mart are OEMed by "Advanced American Telephones."

As you can imagine, I used those keyboards in person before. Very nice wrist pads that are detacheable.
Yeah the membranes aren't that great -- but I was thinking of swapping them with a better one. The case and keys are otherwise very nice, and the two tone blue makes it a lot better... cheap companies that resort to one-tone.

Title: $1 LOT OF 22 IBM KEYBOARDS + 3 MICE, Brooklyn NY pickup only
Post by: ch_123 on Wed, 30 June 2010, 05:16:58

One can only imagine the keen IBM engineering that went into these things -

(http://craphound.com/images/workersinsertinkeys.jpg)

Title: $1 LOT OF 22 IBM KEYBOARDS + 3 MICE, Brooklyn NY pickup only
Post by: gr1m on Wed, 30 June 2010, 05:46:42

Plumbers make a serious bit of dough in Montreal too (and electricians and other similar things). I've had many relatives and friends tell me that I should give up electrical engineering and become an electrician. However, they're probably all clueless and think EE = being an electrician.

Title: $1 LOT OF 22 IBM KEYBOARDS + 3 MICE, Brooklyn NY pickup only
Post by: aegrotatio on Wed, 30 June 2010, 15:06:30

Quote from: ch_123;197874

One can only imagine the keen IBM engineering that went into these things -

Show Image

(http://craphound.com/images/workersinsertinkeys.jpg)

To be fair, as I said earlier, IBM had nothing to do with these keyboards.  They're Micro Innovations keyboards with an IBM brand used under license.