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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: ander on Tue, 07 February 2017, 16:31:55
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IBM 1391401 Model M Vintage Clicky Keyboard (http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-1391401-Model-M-Vintage-Clicky-Keyboard-/332118212351)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/bjIAAOSwjDZYmkYT/s-l1600.jpg)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/m30AAOSwqM1YmkYV/s-l1600.jpg)
Includes cable. Missing 2 caps, and the label was applied sloppily, but not a bad deal for a 2nd-gen M in such nice shape, otherwise.
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Yeah, great deal. Probably has the heavy back plate, but not the yellow chromate version.
Always good to see that the missing caps are not the hard-to-find ones.
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Yeah, great deal. Probably has the heavy back plate, but not the yellow chromate version.
Always good to see that the missing caps are not the hard-to-find ones.
I don't think it's chrome. I think it's either heat treatment or cobalt plating, but chrome seems unlikely to me.
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I don't think it's chrome. I think it's either heat treatment or cobalt plating, but chrome seems unlikely to me.
I'm sure what Fo's referring to is this sort of thing:
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...vs. this:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/laurie47/DSC00120-2.jpg)
Yeah, it's always fun to open a board and see that beautiful lustre.
BTW, I neglected to mention that this listing says:
Keyboards are fully tested and cleaned thoroughly before shipment.
There's no telling if "fully cleaned" means they took off the top and cleaned the barrel plate. (Either one has a 5.5mm thin-walled hex wrench, or one doesn't—it's not one of those iffy things.) But at least key-cleaning wouldn't be necessary.