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Title: Seems I bought me a Space Saver
Post by: shem on Fri, 10 September 2010, 02:22:37

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290471215601&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290471215601&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT)

People told stories about soaring prices for space savers so I thought I had no chance to win this one. But that's what happened, and it even has funky wordstar keycaps! I'll be happy to replace my defunct Unicomp with this one.

Title: Seems I bought me a Space Saver
Post by: ch_123 on Fri, 10 September 2010, 05:24:40

Nice buy. I love the Ctrl, Alt and Backspace keycaps on those things.

It's actually a Displaywrite keyboard (mainframe and possibly PC version of the Displaywriter software) as opposed to Wordstar. IBM also had Wordperfect keyboards -

(http://www.clickykeyboard.com/2006/jan142006/jan142006-003.jpg)

Title: Seems I bought me a Space Saver
Post by: WhiteRice on Fri, 10 September 2010, 05:45:36

There's been three space savers on eBay this week. I thought this one was the mot interesting because of the keys and the manufacture date.

Title: Seems I bought me a Space Saver
Post by: ch_123 on Fri, 10 September 2010, 05:49:27

It also has an interesting cable.

Title: Seems I bought me a Space Saver
Post by: TexasFlood on Fri, 10 September 2010, 08:57:52

DisplayWrite word processor commands key labels, hat keys. Pretty cool, likely not many of them produced so rare.  Congrats.