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Title: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: dorkvader on Sat, 10 May 2014, 19:12:05: http://www.ebay.com/itm/321402859951

Currently $.99 and $30 shipping (for me)

This appears to be in really really good shape, though it is missing the system information card.

xwhatsit has a prototype controller for the DW that will be tested and finalized soon.

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Fair warning, I have a $10 bid on this. You will have to bid $10.50 or more to win.
edit: nevermind!
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Outbid notice: Bid again on IBM Displaywriter Keyboard
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: jwaz on Tue, 20 May 2014, 16:16:16: woah, over $100! I'm guessing it will still go for less than $200 shipped.
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: CPTBadAss on Tue, 20 May 2014, 16:18:27: Wow, dat last minute snipe for $200.
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: esoomenona on Tue, 20 May 2014, 16:18:43: So this board was a hall effect board?
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: CPTBadAss on Tue, 20 May 2014, 16:19:15: Beamspring
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: Techno Trousers on Tue, 20 May 2014, 16:27:24: That definitely went for a lot more than I was expecting. With that layout, I can't see being able to use it as a daily driver on a PC, even with a compatible controller. Maybe someone just really wanted it as a collector's item?
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: E TwentyNine on Tue, 20 May 2014, 16:38:02: I'm not really seeing a problem using that as a DD.

Repurpose some keys for layering and you'd be fine.
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: dorkvader on Tue, 20 May 2014, 18:00:17: Quote from: E TwentyNine on Tue, 20 May 2014, 16:38:02
I'm not really seeing a problem using that as a DD.

Repurpose some keys for layering and you'd be fine.

Agreed. Some people consider the DW to have the most usable layout of all the beams.
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: YakMN on Tue, 20 May 2014, 19:27:09: I've been looking for one for at least 10 years. Maybe more like 20 years, since I read Zinsser's Writing with a Word Processor. Only became practical recently of course...
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: False_Dmitry_II on Wed, 21 May 2014, 03:16:34: I bet whoever was tossing it would be pissed it went for that much.
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: YakMN on Sat, 24 May 2014, 13:42:09: well, if it makes you guys feel any better, the spacebar was smashed in shipping. The right bottom part is snapped off, and it's riding up on the ENTER key, and completely jammed.

$200, and $1 worth of bubble wrap and a recycled cardboard box.
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: dorkvader on Sat, 24 May 2014, 17:58:07: make sure you make it known in the feedback.

Its really unfortunate that this happened. I overpaid for shipping on my most recent beamspring, and received it in a used / recycled box and bubblewrap, but at least he used enough wrap that it arrived in the same condition he sent it in.
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: jwaz on Sun, 25 May 2014, 20:05:17: Round 2:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Displaywriter-Keyboard-/321414709535?&_trksid=p2056016.m2518.l4276
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: E TwentyNine on Sun, 25 May 2014, 21:06:59: Quote from: YakMN on Sat, 24 May 2014, 13:42:09
well, if it makes you guys feel any better, the spacebar was smashed in shipping. The right bottom part is snapped off, and it's riding up on the ENTER key, and completely jammed.

$200, and $1 worth of bubble wrap and a recycled cardboard box.

I don't think anyone here feels better about a beam spring taking damage...

The damage sucks and I hope you can get compensation in some form from the seller, but as long as the metal stems aren't too badly damaged, I have to wonder if a cherry/topre spacebar couldn't be modified to fit on the mounts.
Title: Re: great looking IBM Displaywriter
Post by: dorkvader on Tue, 27 May 2014, 10:00:50: Quote from: E TwentyNine on Sun, 25 May 2014, 21:06:59
as long as the metal stems aren't too badly damaged, I have to wonder if a cherry/topre spacebar couldn't be modified to fit on the mounts.

You probably could, but the length might be an issue. I wonder if a different bar mount switch spacebar would fit better.
Quote from: jwaz on Sun, 25 May 2014, 20:05:17
Round 2:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Displaywriter-Keyboard-/321414709535?&_trksid=p2056016.m2518.l4276

Note that this is the 92 character version which is (as far as I can tell) much less common.