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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: Magna224 on Thu, 08 March 2012, 01:00:52

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: Magna224 on Thu, 08 March 2012, 01:00:52

Has anyone seen this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Large-Lot-of-Vintage-Computer-Keyboards-Scrap-Gold-Silver-Recovery-Apple-/170795690392?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27c4376998

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: wuBu on Thu, 08 March 2012, 01:03:19

wow.. someone here should get it; and post what they got

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: whiskerBox on Thu, 08 March 2012, 01:10:13

need someone from Wisconsin

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: Game Theory on Thu, 08 March 2012, 01:37:49

Quote from: whiskerBox;538768

need someone from Wisconsin

I'm in Wisconsin but only have a car.  I'll see if I can borrow something that can contain all of this.

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: whiskerBox on Thu, 08 March 2012, 01:41:30

Quote from: Game Theory;538790

I'm in Wisconsin but only have a car.  I'll see if I can borrow something that can contain all of this.

A car would probably be fine as most of it will be garbage

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: CaiSter21 on Thu, 08 March 2012, 01:42:04

you could just rent a uhaul and ask a couple of your friends to help you out, shouldnt take more than a couple of hours

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: Game Theory on Thu, 08 March 2012, 01:42:37

But what if one of those pallet is not garbage:)

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: Roguemaster8 on Thu, 08 March 2012, 02:09:10

Looks like 4 pallets of vintage rubber domes. But an Apple Extended II might be hiding in there.

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: Icarium on Thu, 08 March 2012, 03:07:52

If there are only a couple of decent boards in there you can probably rent a truck and still come out ahead...

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: kriminal on Thu, 08 March 2012, 09:38:26

bah all those black keyboards are typical rubberdome Dells, good luck tho, that scrap seems to have alot of domes.

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: Findecanor on Thu, 08 March 2012, 11:35:26

I spot one Dell Quietkey. There may be more.
Those Apple keyboards are not mechanical.

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: whiskerBox on Thu, 08 March 2012, 11:59:03

At this point in time there are only a couple vintage keyboards that interest me and I highly doubt that any of them would be in that pile of crap. Although you never know.

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: Internetlad on Thu, 08 March 2012, 12:11:47

hell, if i was in wisconson, Maybe i'd be an idiot, but I'd grab it. Nice find.

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: REVENGE on Thu, 08 March 2012, 12:22:50

Go to your local HAM / electronics swap meet / e-waste recycler and you can sort through piles of junk like this to your heart's content. AND you won't need to PAY to remove the crap you don't want.

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: fohat.digs on Thu, 08 March 2012, 15:37:26

I live a thousand miles away, so it is out of reach for me.

It would only take a couple of nice finds to pay for this lot, assuming that it does not go to high.

Donate what you don't need to charity and take a tax write-off.


PS - where is that crazy woman that did the gigantic artworks out of keyboard parts?

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: Typhaeon on Fri, 09 March 2012, 15:21:54

Doesn't seem like such a wet dream if you're going to be covered in rubbers.

I'll get my coat.  Because it's wet.  Out there in the dream.

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Post by: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 09 March 2012, 17:12:27

I imagine most of it is complete crap. Sure there are at least a few Apple Alps boards, and a few that look Chicony that might be mechanical. Now if they said crates of Cherry G80... a totally different story.
If anyone here does go for this, and wins, an empty trunk would probably be enough. I would just sort it there, put the good boards in the trunk and leave.

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: Tycn on Sat, 10 March 2012, 22:30:32

$260.

Who won?

Title: A geekhackers wet dream
Post by: Game Theory on Sun, 11 March 2012, 00:14:17

Not me.  Family emergency took me out of the bidding before my first bid.