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Title: Any one get the Industrial M13?
Post by: engicoder on Wed, 22 April 2015, 12:41:11
Wasn't up long....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Model-M13-Vintage-Mechanical-Clicky-Keyboard-Gray-P-S2-W-Trackpoint-/201335826625
Title: Re: Any one get the Industrial M13?
Post by: orihalcon on Wed, 22 April 2015, 12:47:58
Yep, that was me. This will be my first industrial. Am curious to see if they live up to the hype in terms of how they look in person!
Title: Re: Any one get the Industrial M13?
Post by: engicoder on Wed, 22 April 2015, 13:09:03
Quote from: orihalcon on Wed, 22 April 2015, 12:47:58
Yep, that was me. This will be my first industrial. Am curious to see if they live up to the hype in terms of how they look in person!

Congrats! Hope you enjoy it!
Title: Re: Any one get the Industrial M13?
Post by: chyros on Wed, 22 April 2015, 13:30:59
Jesus ****ing Christ on a stick, that thing must be rare as all hell Oo . I didn't even know they existed. Let us know what it's like!
Title: Re: Any one get the Industrial M13?
Post by: jwaz on Wed, 22 April 2015, 13:32:52
Quote from: chyros on Wed, 22 April 2015, 13:30:59
Jesus ****ing Christ on a stick, that thing must be rare as all hell Oo . I didn't even know they existed. Let us know what it's like!

I picked up one with the box last year, I believe they're Unicomp made and fairly recently, around '97ish?
Title: Re: Any one get the Industrial M13?
Post by: orihalcon on Wed, 22 April 2015, 13:47:30
This one says maxiswitch, so same as the black m13's that I've seen. Not sure if unicomp made m13's or if they were just made by  maxiswitch.
Title: Re: Any one get the Industrial M13?
Post by: jwaz on Wed, 22 April 2015, 14:06:06
Quote from: orihalcon on Wed, 22 April 2015, 13:47:30
This one says maxiswitch, so same as the black m13's that I've seen. Not sure if unicomp made m13's or if they were just made by  maxiswitch.

I'll check mine out when I get home, maybe it was the beige m13 that was unicomp. I'm pretty sure one of 'em was.
Title: Re: Any one get the Industrial M13?
Post by: E TwentyNine on Thu, 23 April 2015, 12:45:17
The earliest M13-I's are Maxiswitch, then production switched over to Unicomp in 97/98.

I think $200 for this is a complete steal.  Seller likely could have gotten twice that with little problem.
Title: Re: Any one get the Industrial M13?
Post by: chyros on Thu, 23 April 2015, 14:16:58
Indeed. Now all we need in an Industrial M13 Ergonomic SSK and we've got the most expensive item in history 8) .
Title: Re: Any one get the Industrial M13?
Post by: Sygaldry on Thu, 23 April 2015, 14:39:56
Damn... that's a beautiful KB....

Just got a white M13 (lexmark made) recently but still... jelly
Title: Re: Any one get the Industrial M13?
Post by: ander on Thu, 23 April 2015, 21:10:20
Nice, dude... You have our industrial-size congratulations.