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Title: WTF? Black 82G'
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 03 December 2009, 03:18:59

http://cgi.ebay.ie/BLACK-1994-IBM-Model-M-Clicky-Keyboard-82G2383-Unit-398_W0QQitemZ140363800701QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Mice_Trackballs?hash=item20ae55a07d#ht_1155wt_941 (http://cgi.ebay.ie/BLACK-1994-IBM-Model-M-Clicky-Keyboard-82G2383-Unit-398_W0QQitemZ140363800701QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Mice_Trackballs?hash=item20ae55a07d#ht_1155wt_941)

Is this a mod job, or some freak one of a kind made by Lexmark?

Or did Brian have a leftover M13 case and put a normal IBM into it?

Title: WTF? Black 82G'
Post by: chimera15 on Thu, 03 December 2009, 03:56:20

Quote from: ch_123;138272

http://cgi.ebay.ie/BLACK-1994-IBM-Model-M-Clicky-Keyboard-82G2383-Unit-398_W0QQitemZ140363800701QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Mice_Trackballs?hash=item20ae55a07d#ht_1155wt_941 (http://cgi.ebay.ie/BLACK-1994-IBM-Model-M-Clicky-Keyboard-82G2383-Unit-398_W0QQitemZ140363800701QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Mice_Trackballs?hash=item20ae55a07d#ht_1155wt_941)

Is this a mod job, or some freak one of a kind made by Lexmark?

Or did Brian have a leftover M13 case and put a normal IBM into it?

Painted, looks nice.

Title: WTF? Black 82G'
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 03 December 2009, 04:00:22

I'd say the keys are Unicomp ones, however they still have the ugly beige spacebar and alt keys.

Title: WTF? Black 82G'
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 03 December 2009, 09:34:12

Also - that IBM label looks too big, was it pulled off something else and stuck over it? If the keys were custom made - why make the grey keycaps but not the ones for space and Alt? Why not use Black keys? Why not use a black lock-light label? Also, the back label could have come off another keyboard, which seems especially likely given that any 82G that I have seen had a permanently attached cable.

I am convinced that this was someone's mod job that someone hacked together and somehow ended up in Brian's hands.

Title: WTF? Black 82G'
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 03 December 2009, 10:26:22

You mean the label on the back? As I said, probably taken off another keyboard.

Title: WTF? Black 82G'
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 03 December 2009, 10:46:31

Piling on Tiger Woods.  I love it.
 
Now that I think about it, "Woods" is a perfect name for a golfer; too bad he didn't respect the wood in the tree.  He and Jeremy Irons would make good celebrity doubles partners, if in name only.

Title: WTF? Black 82G'
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 03 December 2009, 10:56:03

I'm pretty sure all Lexmarks had that shape of label.

Title: WTF? Black 82G'
Post by: microsoft windows on Thu, 03 December 2009, 20:09:31

No they didn't.