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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: ander on Tue, 05 September 2017, 16:21:27
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IBM Model M Keyboard Vintage # 1391401 Clicky Key December 1988 ID # 2137366 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Model-M-Keyboard-Vintage-1391401-Clicky-Key-December-1988-ID-2137366-/182749188906?epid=530091212)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/peQAAOSwm7RZoDce/s-l1600.jpg)
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BIN $49.99 + $17.05 U.S. shipping.
Missing a cap on the numpad, but otherwise in very nice shape for a 2nd-gen Model M (or 1st-gen 1391401, depending on how you see it). Most M cables didn't have the ferrite filter, so that's a little bonus too. And it's from AZ, a good dry place (well, dryer than FL, for example).
M's in good cleanable shape seem to be going for around $80 + shipping (https://www.ebay.com/sch/Computers-Tablets-Networking/58058/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=ibm%201391401&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684) these days, so it seemed worth mentioning. If you don't have a Model M, you can't call yourself a keeb-head—so here's a chance to pick one up at the low end of the price spectrum.