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Title: weird IBM find
Post by: pitashen on Sun, 19 February 2012, 22:49:54

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MUST-SEE-Rare-Vtg-BLANK-Keyboard-IBM-Production-Error-/130506871728?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item1e62d0d3b0

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: DaemonRaccoon on Sun, 19 February 2012, 22:51:41

That box doesn't go with that keyboard...

It's probably a rubber dome...

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: Roguemaster8 on Sun, 19 February 2012, 22:51:57

Chinatown Model M?

This has fake written all over it.

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: dorkvader on Sun, 19 February 2012, 23:27:38

I would also like to note that brand new blank keycap sets are a lot less than $100 from unicomp.

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: RColinTaylor on Sun, 19 February 2012, 23:34:28

I dunno, man, this seems pretty legit. It says in the description that he is a business owner.

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: NeeGo on Sun, 19 February 2012, 23:39:19

Quote from: RColinTaylor;519335

I dunno, man, this seems pretty legit. It says in the description that he is a business owner.

Over thirty-freakin-nine years too!

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: bazemk1979 on Sun, 19 February 2012, 23:45:27

told the seller to remove keycap and take pic from it and then post it.

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: fohat.digs on Mon, 20 February 2012, 09:12:17

That keyboard has been listed on ebay for months, starting at $500.

Surely it is an OEM / experiment / reject / leftover / test model that just never went through the whole process.

I would guess that it is legit, and he thinks that it should be a valuable rarity when it is really only a mildly curious oddity.

Now, if he was selling 100 of them at a cut-rate price, that would be suspicious ......

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: REVENGE on Mon, 20 February 2012, 13:54:58

Good ****ing god why is this **** still getting posted.

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: mbc on Mon, 20 February 2012, 15:14:14

they probably just forgot to laser it..

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: RColinTaylor on Mon, 20 February 2012, 16:02:42

I just bid $150; hopefully nobody snags it up.

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: Snarfangel on Mon, 20 February 2012, 16:13:20

Quote from: RColinTaylor;519855

I just bid $150; hopefully nobody snags it up.

RColinTaylor  
Fiscally Irresponsible

That is too perfect not to be on purpose. :)

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: pitashen on Mon, 20 February 2012, 19:30:34

Quote from: RColinTaylor;519855

I just bid $150; hopefully nobody snags it up.

I have to assume you are not serious

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: Snarfangel on Mon, 20 February 2012, 20:37:48

Quote from: ripster;520011

I don't think you guys know how these are made.

Keyboard gnomes?

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: dorkvader on Tue, 21 February 2012, 00:20:04

Quote from: mbc;519820

they probably just forgot to laser it..

I thought they were Dyesubbed PBT?

Quote from: ripster;520011

I don't think you guys know how these are made.

What's up with your wikis?

Quote

IBM Pad Printed Model M key on left, Dell AT101W key on right - notice the lasered lettering is somewhat faint and burnt looking

The Model M doesn't look pad printed to me in that picture. I suppose it could be lasered, but at the top it says

Quote

Laser engraving became popular in the mid-1990s

So did they start out as dyesub, then change to pad print or laser? I'm not talking about those black IBM sets either.

Anyway, I still suspect most model M keys are Dyesubb'd PBT, and I'll wait for Mr. #1 to make up his mind and update the wiki.

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: DesktopJinx on Tue, 21 February 2012, 00:55:38

What about that is IBM-like?  It looks like some mid-90s Taiwanese crapboard bundled with no-name clones.

Title: weird IBM find
Post by: mbc on Tue, 21 February 2012, 11:28:25

Quote from: dorkvader;520383

I thought they were Dyesubbed PBT?


What's up with your wikis?  The Model M doesn't look pad printed to me in that picture. I suppose it could be lasered, but at the top it says
So did they start out as dyesub, then change to pad print or laser? I'm not talking about those black IBM sets either.

Anyway, I still suspect most model M keys are Dyesubb'd PBT, and I'll wait for Mr. #1 to make up his mind and update the wiki.

That is not a Model M