geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: KillerBee on Sun, 17 October 2010, 02:00:37
Title: This is a sign that I am truly going insane!
Post by: KillerBee on Sun, 17 October 2010, 02:00:37
Lately I am been wondering if I have gone insane?
Anyone remember this crazy mistake? (http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=12386&d=1283716706)
Well the doo-doo board is no more its keys have been traded for terminal keyboard keys but the black case top still remains.
So I decided I slap this on my Feb 1986 Model M
As per my obsession with Silver Square labels I decided to get one of these and slap it in the corner of the black case as to make my own square label customizer no LED look alike
Its a metal logo from an IBM Memory Typewriter
That square logo will sit in the corner of that black model M's case.
I think that sums up my insanity
Title: This is a sign that I am truly going insane!
Post by: hoggy on Sun, 17 October 2010, 04:37:09
Nah, now if you had decided to dye those replacement keys...
Title: This is a sign that I am truly going insane!
Post by: J888www on Sun, 17 October 2010, 04:52:05
There's nothing to be ashamed/afraid of being insane. I've been there and back several times, think I'm there again ATM.
Title: This is a sign that I am truly going insane!
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 17 October 2010, 10:53:13
Wouldn't it have just been easier to get an M13 shell and put it on the 86 one instead?
Title: This is a sign that I am truly going insane!
Post by: Daniel Beaver on Sun, 17 October 2010, 11:16:10
You actually are insane. But you're on GeekHack, where everyone else is insane in the same way.
I personally enjoy my Silver IBM labels!
Title: This is a sign that I am truly going insane!
Post by: KillerBee on Sun, 17 October 2010, 11:37:54
Quote from: EverythingIBM;235152
Wouldn't it have just been easier to get an M13 shell and put it on the 86 one instead?
Maybe. But I had this shell top handy
Title: This is a sign that I am truly going insane!
Post by: Malcolm Lowry on Mon, 18 October 2010, 12:04:01
Hey! Those are my terminal keys! I'm glad they found a good home. But don't dye them...they're getting to be rare antiques. --
Title: This is a sign that I am truly going insane!
Post by: didjamatic on Mon, 18 October 2010, 15:22:57
Title: This is a sign that I am truly going insane!
Post by: KillerBee on Thu, 21 October 2010, 21:17:59
PIIIIIIICS
I am not sure when the IBM Memory Typewriters where introduced into the market but amazingly enough the emblem was NEW the logo was a bit rusted on the back but in the front it still retained the protective film from new.
AMAZING
Well enough chatter and on to the pics
Title: This is a sign that I am truly going insane!
Post by: KillerBee on Thu, 21 October 2010, 21:37:09
probably came off this guy
(http://www.etypewriters.com/mem100.jpg)
1974! wow
Title: This is a sign that I am truly going insane!
Post by: hoggy on Thu, 21 October 2010, 23:12:15