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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: didjamatic on Sun, 01 August 2010, 23:16:34

Title: Model M - for parts, or not.
Post by: didjamatic on Sun, 01 August 2010, 23:16:34

Model M for $1 (http://cgi.ebay.com/1988-IBM-Model-M-101-key-clicky-keyboard-PS2-scrap-/160463109646?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255c58be0e#ht_4577wt_1137). It's refreshing to read such an honest description, complete with good photos.  It prob works fine.

Title: Model M - for parts, or not.
Post by: EverythingIBM on Wed, 04 August 2010, 01:30:46

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I've always preferred this type of keyboard over the "quiet" and mushy keys that sit on rubber bubbles on newer computers.

Rubber bubbles hey? So everyone's been calling them "rubber domes" when the correct term is "rubber bubbles". I stand corrected!

Title: Model M - for parts, or not.
Post by: hyperlinked on Wed, 04 August 2010, 01:48:36

Quote from: didjamatic;208333

Model M for $1 (http://cgi.ebay.com/1988-IBM-Model-M-101-key-clicky-keyboard-PS2-scrap-/160463109646?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255c58be0e#ht_4577wt_1137). It's refreshing to read such an honest description, complete with good photos.  It prob works fine.

Heavy equipment auctions sometimes work like this.

I worked for a company once that ran medical equipment live auctions as part of their business. We're talking everything from exam treatment tables to MRI machines that had to be moved. Since all this stuff was in storage, there was no way to verify if something still works or if it works right so people were often told everyone to assume that what they were bidding on was non-operational.

Further compounding the complexity was that equipment was often moved in lots. They might auction everything from an MRI treatment room as one auction. People had to bid under the assumption that anything or everything could be broken.

Title: Model M - for parts, or not.
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 04 August 2010, 13:11:47

Wow! An honest description in a font other than red 72pt Comic Sans! I never knew there was such a thing!

Title: Model M - for parts, or not.
Post by: ch_123 on Wed, 04 August 2010, 14:52:47

Maybe he doesn't have a computer with a PS/2 port?

Title: Model M - for parts, or not.
Post by: Voixdelion on Thu, 05 August 2010, 21:16:06

It IS surprisingly clean though - NO board chow!

Title: Model M - for parts, or not.
Post by: microsoft windows on Fri, 06 August 2010, 12:26:19

Quote from: EverythingIBM;208968

Rubber bubbles hey? So everyone's been calling them "rubber domes" when the correct term is "rubber bubbles". I stand corrected!

They do kind of look like both, I guess.