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IBM Wheelwriter and/or keys
« on: Fri, 22 March 2013, 13:37:29 »
I found this bad boy today, and was going to walk on by, but I had to press a key. I felt the unmistakeable buckling spring, and decided to buy it.

These are solid 1-piece IBM keys with almost no wear. The secondary legends are a beautiful green, and are typewriter markings rather than computer keyboard.

If anyone is interested in buying the entire unit, I will entertain selling it as a whole, or just the key set. I bought it with the intention of harvesting the keys and using them myself in a retro setup, but make me an offer I can't refuse, and it is yours.

It is a nice old piece and would probably work with a computer through a parallel port, although I am not exactly sure how.
« Last Edit: Fri, 22 March 2013, 14:37:39 by fohat.digs »
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Re: IBM Wheelwriter and/or keys
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 22 March 2013, 13:41:13 »
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Re: IBM Wheelwriter and/or keys
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 12:16:39 »
Absolutely cool! As a lover of buckling springs, I am so tempted... alas, shipping will be...  >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D
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Re: IBM Wheelwriter and/or keys
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 12:31:49 »
Quote from: berserkfan on Sat, 11 May 2013, 12:16:39
Absolutely cool! As a lover of buckling springs, I am so tempted... alas, shipping will be...  >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D

I live near Atlanta. Domestic US, I estimate the shipping at maybe $25-30 East, $30-35 West. If I get any serious interest, I could put it in a box and take it to the UPS store to see for sure.

I will need $15 for it on top of actual shipping cost. Or sell the keys at $18 shipped US.
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"Starting in 2011, the deficits again started to shrink. During Obama’s term  the deficit was reduced by $900 Billion  before finally in 2015 the GOP managed to wrangle a “reconciliation” bill out of Obama where he again cut corporate taxes, as well as made permanent some of George W. Bush’s original tax cuts. This is the year everything reversed. Before this, under Clinton, Bush and Obama the deficit in almost every year was gradually decreasing. The balance we had of taxes and the economy was bringing the deficit down, the money coming in was slowly catching up with the money going out until 2015. Trump’s subsequent tax cut has continued the new trend even after the rest of Bush’s cuts have since expired. Obama had an average GDP of 2.3%, with 11.6 million jobs created and unemployment peaking at 10% in 2009, then falling to 4.3% in 2016. If we had continued on that downward deficit track, we would have again reached balance and another surplus in 2017-2018.
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Re: IBM Wheelwriter and/or keys
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 12:56:04 »
Super cool find, GLWS!
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Re: IBM Wheelwriter and/or keys
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 12 May 2013, 09:31:43 »
Final bump before I strip the keys and parts and toss the carcass.

My big concern is whether I want to crack it all apart for the springs. They will be fresh and good, I'm sure, but this thing will be hard to get open.

Somebody buy it, and save me the trouble.
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Re: IBM Wheelwriter and/or keys
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 12 May 2013, 09:39:38 »
Paper up and Paper dn keys are awesome.
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Re: IBM Wheelwriter and/or keys
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 20 June 2013, 23:41:33 »
I forgot about this.  Does it work as a typewriter?

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Re: IBM Wheelwriter and/or keys
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 21 June 2013, 01:03:10 »
 :( :( :( It hurts to think this beauty is going to be (or already has been) torn down. They are great typewriters and can be converted into teletypes with enough patience.  :( :( :(
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Re: IBM Wheelwriter and/or keys
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 21 June 2013, 02:12:06 »
hey fohat

sorry I missed your reply in this post. But nothing lost - at least for me. I live outside the USA, so I'm guessing shipping will be $100 or something scary. In any case I'm not technically competent so wouldn't have beenable to change the parallel cable for whatever cable that is needed.

Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 11 May 2013, 12:31:49
Quote from: berserkfan on Sat, 11 May 2013, 12:16:39
Absolutely cool! As a lover of buckling springs, I am so tempted... alas, shipping will be...  >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D

I live near Atlanta. Domestic US, I estimate the shipping at maybe $25-30 East, $30-35 West. If I get any serious interest, I could put it in a box and take it to the UPS store to see for sure.

I will need $15 for it on top of actual shipping cost. Or sell the keys at $18 shipped US.
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