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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: RealDealSexAppeal on Tue, 26 September 2017, 18:15:13

Title: Blue Label IBM Model M's "For Parts" possible working -- $38.99 Shipped
Post by: RealDealSexAppeal on Tue, 26 September 2017, 18:15:13

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Lexmark-IBM-Keyboard-Model-M-SKU-841-/332389260231?hash=item4d63f19bc7:g:vfsAAOSwdc5ZdknR

The thing that led me to believe that this listing is for working keyboards is that the seller states
"Tested with our computer, keyboard lights up but does not configure properly with this computer to be fully tested."
and there are two of them. Which makes it pretty likely that its the computer and not the boards' fault

This sounds to me like what happens when you plug a Model M into a plug which doesn't provide enough power (kind of like when you use a passive ps/2 to USB adaptor)

Title: Re: Blue Label IBM Model M's "For Parts" possible working -- $38.99 Shipped
Post by: ander on Tue, 26 September 2017, 18:47:03

I agree—and I believe you're referring to these (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=91711.0), which I posted about here a few days ago. I'm still surprised no one's grabbed them. They're very late-model Lexmarks, which should still be a notch or two above Unicomps, quality-wise.

Title: Re: Blue Label IBM Model M's "For Parts" possible working -- $38.99 Shipped
Post by: RealDealSexAppeal on Tue, 26 September 2017, 19:33:33

Quote from: ander on Tue, 26 September 2017, 18:47:03

I agree—and I believe you're referring to these (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=91711.0), which I posted about here a few days ago. I'm still surprised no one's grabbed them. They're very late-model Lexmarks, which should still be a notch or two above Unicomps, quality-wise.

oops sorry about that.

Read your post and I too am trying to resist not buying one since I only own a silver and a gray model m.
I recently got into the hobbie too and ive spend around 400 just this month...  :-X think i might just bite the bullet if theyre still there by the time i head home

Title: Re: Blue Label IBM Model M's "For Parts" possible working -- $38.99 Shipped
Post by: ander on Wed, 27 September 2017, 15:44:04

Quote from: RealDealSexAppeal on Tue, 26 September 2017, 19:33:33

I recently got into the hobbie too and ive spend around 400 just this month...  :-X think i might just bite the bullet if theyre still there by the time i head home...

Sorry to be such an editor (it's a curse), but "biting the bullet" usually means doing something hard, not easy. In this case, it'd be not buying, like I'm not doing.

For what it's worth, I'm pointing this out not to be a know-it-all, but because it was another chance to type something on fabulous mechanical switches, something we can all understand.  :?)