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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: yasuo on Thu, 06 November 2014, 01:59:29
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Used Cherry ErgoPlus MX5000 Keyboard EXCELLENT CONDITION-Low Serial Number (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Used-Cherry-ErgoPlus-MX5000-Keyboard-EXCELLENT-CONDITION-Low-Serial-Number/301021389611?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D27538%26meid%3Dce78e01ed157413593d05193656205a4%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D11353%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D350547996727&rt=nc)
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Great Deals
$1250
Waaaat.
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Good deal, someone should grab it! :))
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Good deal, someone should grab it! :))
I just have to wonder whether these keyboards are really so good or whether they are just good in the eyes of geek collectors.
After all, if they were really so good to use, surely some big corporate client eg google would have placed some order for 100000 by now.
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I didnt like the one sherryton had. I thought it was too "floppy".
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I think I made the seller drop his price. It's down to US $793.64 now! 42.5% off! :p
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I’m hoping some Bay Area geekhacker buys this and lets me try it for a bit :). I remember reading a couple of reviews from the 90s by people who thought these were much more effective as ergonomic keyboards than the Apple Adjustable or the IBM M15.
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After all, if they were really so good to use, surely some big corporate client eg google would have placed some order for 100000 by now.
“Hey Cherry, remember back 20 years ago when you were still making high-quality keyboards, and people were buying them for large amounts of money? Back when you still had some engineers on staff capable of making new designs for keyboards and switches? Back before your business shifted entirely to POS machines and rubber domes? Yeah, we want you to dredge back up a product that you probably don’t still have the tooling set up to make, and sell us a bunch of them, for much cheaper than you used to sell them back then, because our alternative is $20 Microsoft “ergonomic” rubber dome boards.”
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solid price o.o :rolleyes:
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The price....
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After all, if they were really so good to use, surely some big corporate client eg google would have placed some order for 100000 by now.
“Hey Cherry, remember back 20 years ago when you were still making high-quality keyboards, and people were buying them for large amounts of money? Back when you still had some engineers on staff capable of making new designs for keyboards and switches? Back before your business shifted entirely to POS machines and rubber domes? Yeah, we want you to dredge back up a product that you probably don’t still have the tooling set up to make, and sell us a bunch of them, for much cheaper than you used to sell them back then, because our alternative is $20 Microsoft “ergonomic” rubber dome boards.”
If there is demand and profit opportunity, companies will do it. If logitech can sell its (significantly inferior) stuff at over $100 each and the average Cherry POS keyboard sells at a few hundred $, don't tell me they can't make and sell good quality keyboards at $300 to corporate customers. Clearly the geeks in Apple, Google, Yahoo, Oracle, Amazon (whom I consider the alphas of the geek universe) are not geek enough to put in their mass orders. Which is a pity.
If we could convert just one person - Tim Cook or Larry Ellison or Jeff Bezos - to using an ergodox Model F with flossed springs and metal casing - he could tell unicomp he wants 100,000 for his employees and we would never have to do anything with custom-builds anymore!
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If we could convert just one person - Tim Cook or Larry Ellison or Jeff Bezos - to using an ergodox Model F with flossed springs and metal casing - he could tell unicomp he wants 100,000 for his employees and we would never have to do anything with custom-builds anymore!
Go do it! No one here is going to stand in your way.
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yeah the price down now
the others
AT Cherry MX 5000 ErgoPlus inkl. Nummernblock mit OVP & Adapter DIN AT zu PS2 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/AT-Cherry-MX-5000-ErgoPlus-inkl-Nummernblock-mit-OVP-Adapter-DIN-AT-zu-PS2-/111354346508?pt=Klassische_Computer&hash=item19ed3c7c0c)
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If we could convert just one person - Tim Cook or Larry Ellison or Jeff Bezos - to using an ergodox Model F with flossed springs and metal casing - he could tell unicomp he wants 100,000 for his employees and we would never have to do anything with custom-builds anymore!
I don't think unicomp would be willing to do that at any price, but another company could, especially for that quantity.
Heck, you could make a new company, hire some engineers, design it, and get it manufactured and it probably wouldn't be more expensive than a cherry KB is today.
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Is that brand new?
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Is that brand new?
No. Used, no box! :'(
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yeah the price down now
the others
AT Cherry MX 5000 ErgoPlus inkl. Nummernblock mit OVP & Adapter DIN AT zu PS2 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/AT-Cherry-MX-5000-ErgoPlus-inkl-Nummernblock-mit-OVP-Adapter-DIN-AT-zu-PS2-/111354346508?pt=Klassische_Computer&hash=item19ed3c7c0c)
this one looks like brand new.
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this one looks like brand new.
Yeah, this one is brand new, DE layout.
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this one looks like brand new.
Yeah, this one is brand new, DE layout.
brand new is so expensive.....haha