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Offline Icarium

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Ebay: IBM Space Saver
« on: Tue, 31 January 2012, 19:43:49 »
Probably not really a great find, has a trackpoint though.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/IBM-SpaceSaver-Keyboard-1379590-1993-Lexmark-/150715024158?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item231750c31e
Does anybody know if it is actually BS?
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« Reply #1 on: Tue, 31 January 2012, 19:51:09 »
Quote from: Icarium;504788
Probably not really a great find, has a trackpoint though.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/IBM-SpaceSaver-Keyboard-1379590-1993-Lexmark-/150715024158?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item231750c31e
Does anybody know if it is actually BS?
It's not BS.
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Offline Autolyze

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Ebay: IBM Space Saver
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 31 January 2012, 19:52:18 »
Quote from: poxeclipse;504804
It's not BS.

Yeah, I'm not familiar with that model, but there's no way that's buckling spring.
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Offline Gawkbasher

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Ebay: IBM Space Saver
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 31 January 2012, 19:54:10 »
The lack of a statement at all about the functionality of this keyboard would leave me worried about buying it unless you have parts and the skill to repair things that inevitably won't work.

People who have tested, working keyboards say so.  You can leave an AS-IS statement to cover yourself but the seller still says it was minimally tested and doesn't mention results.
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Offline alaricljs

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Ebay: IBM Space Saver
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 31 January 2012, 19:55:30 »
I would expect that in this case minimally tested is equal to:  the keys are pressable.

And, link to details on the model number.
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Offline dorkvader

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Ebay: IBM Space Saver
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 31 January 2012, 22:55:22 »
Isn't that the M4: BRS (buckling rubber sleeve) supposedly pretty good feel for a rubber dome.

Yep: the clickeykeyboards confirms it: M4-1. There's a whole website/community of people who love this keyboard. I don't think it's worth $200, though.
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Offline ed_avis

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Ebay: IBM Space Saver
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 01 February 2012, 04:19:50 »
vintagecomputermuseum often has interesting stuff, but at 5x the price.
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