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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: IBI on Sun, 24 May 2009, 15:05:30

Title: [Ebay UK] Manky SGI AT101 White Alps with Rubber stops
Post by: IBI on Sun, 24 May 2009, 15:05:30

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SGI-Granite-Keyboard_W0QQitemZ110393642613QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_ComputerComponents_KeyboardsMice?hash=item19b3f94e75&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A4%7C294%3A50 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SGI-Granite-Keyboard_W0QQitemZ110393642613QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_ComputerComponents_KeyboardsMice?hash=item19b3f94e75&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A4%7C294%3A50).

Starting price is £11 delivered and given the state of it in the picture I doubt it'll get many bids to push that up. It might be a nice buy for anyone willing to take it apart and clean it up (although it might be worth trying to find a key puller so you don't do what I did and break a cap by trying to pry them off).

Title: [Ebay UK] Manky SGI AT101 White Alps with Rubber stops
Post by: CX23882 on Thu, 04 June 2009, 12:09:05

I bought this.

The board doesn't appear to be in bad shape, other than being very dirty. After just a 10 minute surface clean it looks many times better, but I'll give it a proper clean at the weekend. Obviously the space bar has turned yellow yet all the other keys white, as with all of these SGI boards that I've seen.

I am surprised by how quiet the keys are, having heard the racket that the regular clicky white alps make, and even compared to the non-clicky Cherry ML.

I bought one of the supposedly "new" Dell AT101W too, and it's waiting at the post office, so I'll pick that up Saturday and see which board I prefer best.