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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: CX23882 on Tue, 24 February 2009, 04:29:24

Title: I wonder...
Post by: CX23882 on Tue, 24 February 2009, 04:29:24

...how many vintage keyboards are sat up in people's attics or out in garages because they've either forgotten about them or don't consider them worth selling on eBay because they're "old, dirty and worthless junk".

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Post by: kyamei on Tue, 24 February 2009, 05:17:42

Or, how many vintage keyboards have been thrown away because they're "old, dirty and worthless junk."

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Post by: ozar on Tue, 24 February 2009, 14:14:54

lol... my dream is to find a pallet of NIB keyboards in an old locked up warehouse some day.

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Post by: cchan on Tue, 24 February 2009, 14:50:18

ozar, that's my dream too. specifically something rarer like trackpointless M4's or some compact board with blue cherries no-one knows about.

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Post by: bigpook on Tue, 24 February 2009, 15:57:16

ditto. I just know that there is a warehouse out there, somewhere, and there is a pallet of NIB model m mini's that everyone has forgotten about. Its way in the back,where the light is broken. Someday....

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Post by: lowpoly on Tue, 24 February 2009, 16:03:24

Reminds me of the lot of M15s in Indonesia.

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Post by: itlnstln on Tue, 24 February 2009, 17:00:00

Quote from: lowpoly;22660

Reminds me of the lot of M15s in Indonesia.

Are you talking about the ones you find on Google to buy or the one member here who thinks he threw a bunch of them away?

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Post by: bhtooefr on Tue, 24 February 2009, 18:07:31

The Shuayico ones.

And I don't think it was Indonesia, but wherever it is, is irrelevant - Shuayico doesn't respond to e-mails.

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Post by: lowpoly on Wed, 25 February 2009, 01:32:24

http://www.manufacturer.com/product/i3264122-IBM+Model+M15+Split+Ergonomic+Keyboard.html

It was Indonesia. :D I know they don't respond but there might be a warehouse of M15s. Or it was set up as a scam.

itln, the Google ones.

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Post by: FKSSR on Thu, 05 March 2009, 12:56:39

I'm going to go looking at my gf's parents' house and my parents' house soon for old keyboards.  I may not find anything good, but you never know.

I asked my dad to look for M's at his work, but he hasn't found any yet.  He said he thinks they used to have some, but they threw them away...