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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: E TwentyNine on Sun, 15 June 2014, 12:42:13
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Genuine-IBM-PS-2-Space-Saver-WordStar-Keytops-Clicky-Keyboard-M-Parts-/261507026512
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Whoa cool. I have some of those caps and I always wondered where they came from.
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That one is a little beat up. Phosphorglow did a bolt mod on one of those and it was a real beauty. A good, clean one could sell for a pretty penny.
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Whoa cool. I have some of those caps and I always wondered where they came from.
I totally told you where they were from. Ming also sold one with similar caps to samwisekoi a while ago. killerbee is looking for that backspace, etc etc.
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Whoa cool. I have some of those caps and I always wondered where they came from.
I totally told you where they were from. Ming also sold one with similar caps to samwisekoi a while ago. killerbee is looking for that backspace, etc etc.
Can't expect much from newbs.
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Right, you told me where it was from but I've never actually seen the board. Or looked up a picture of the board. Or remembered if you showed me a picture.
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Normal IBM Personal Typing System SSK (DisplayWrite) except that the F8 keycap differs from any of the boards that I've seen.
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Normal IBM Personal Typing System SSK (DisplayWrite) except that the F8 keycap differs from any of the boards that I've seen.
It should say Merg and F8 on front
http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/items.main/parentcat/9242/subcatid/0/id/120575 (http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/items.main/parentcat/9242/subcatid/0/id/120575)
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Looks like that F8 was pilfered from a 122-key Model M, if anything.
There are other variations between the Ebay one and the Clickykeyboards one, if you look closely enough.
1. The Ebay one has a Task/Menu key in the Print Screen key spot, while the Clickykeyboards one has a standard Print Screen key.
2. The Ebay one has a "Bgn L" key in the Home key spot, while the Clickykeyboards one has a Field- key there.
3. The Ebay one has green lettering on the arrow keys, while the Clickykeyboards one has nothing.
And then this Ebay listing has key printing that has all the abnormal keys mentioned above. http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Model-M-Space-Saver-Buckling-Spring-Clicky-Keyboard-1392464-/281360079514?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item41825e1a9a
I wonder if these are standard variations, or if some keys were replaced along the way.
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I wonder if George R.R. Martin uses a similar keyboard to write Game of Thrones since he uses WordStar 4.0 (http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/05/14/2019225/game-of-thrones-author-george-r-r-martin-writes-with-wordstar-on-dos)?
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Looks like that F8 was pilfered from a 122-key Model M, if anything.
The Clickykeyboards example has several substitutions from the original keyset.
1. The Ebay one has a Task/Menu key in the Print Screen key spot, while the Clickykeyboards one has a standard Print Screen key.
(I was wrong in my earlier comments about this.) The eBay example is correct. The Print Screen keycap on the Clickykeyboards example is a substitution.
2. The Ebay one has a "Bgn L" key in the Home key spot, while the Clickykeyboards one has a Field- key there.
Again, the eBay example has the original keycap. The Clickykeyboards example has a substitution.
3. The Ebay one has green lettering on the arrow keys, while the Clickykeyboards one has nothing.
And again, the eBay example has the original keycaps. And again, the Clickykeyboards example has substituted arrow keys.
The eBay example appears to have all of the original keycaps except for the F8. The F8 should have "Merg" on top and "F8" on the front.
I've got a 1394618 with a complete original keyset and a 1392464 that was only missing the Pause keycap. The 1394618 Pause key has the "Break" on the front in green. I'm looking for one of those and using a normal Pause on the 1392464 in the meantime.
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I wonder if George R.R. Martin uses a similar keyboard to write Game of Thrones since he uses WordStar 4.0 (http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/05/14/2019225/game-of-thrones-author-george-r-r-martin-writes-with-wordstar-on-dos)?
That guy would fit right it here. I hope he does.