Cherry UB80 80's Editing keyboard, wood case. £25+15 start. UK eBay

[RabRhee]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-VINTAGE-CHERRY-COMPUTER-KEYBOARD-70s-80s-WOODEN-CASE-APPLE-ACORN-SINCLAIR-/391339830878?

Possibly M7 switch, I wouldn't know for sure.

Similar to one listed in the British Science Museum here - http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/online_science/explore_our_collections/objects/index/smxg-34242

[SamirD]

I bet Cherry would know exactly what that board is.  Quite a nice piece for a collection.  Those colored upper row keys with symbols are pretty neat.

[ander]

Isn't that a beauty! Never seen anything like it. I feel compelled to include one of the photos here for historical/educational purposes, before they go offline:





("SPACE"—love it)

[RoastPotatoes]

I'm interested and in the UK

[SamirD]

Get in on that auction!  Would be lovely to see it go to a GH home.

[RoastPotatoes]

Get in on that auction!  Would be lovely to see it go to a GH home.

Sadly didn't get it. It very quickly went from £30 to £115. I'm not sure who got it hopefully it pops up somewhere.

[SamirD]

A lot of these end up with the European users on DT.  All good as long as it goes to a good home.

[ander]

Boards that nice, you don't even care if you can ever get them working with a PC or not. You just lift up their covers every now and then, gaze upon them, and sigh in pleasure.

(Obviously there's something wrong with us, but do you think it's serious?)

[chyros]

(Obviously there's something wrong with us, but do you think it's serious?)

Yes, very. So much so that there's probably no turning back. So we might as well enjoy our screaming insanity while we're at it .

[1391406]

This is the first keyboard I've seen with a space bar that's labeled.

[RabRhee]

This is the first keyboard I've seen with a space bar that's labeled.

In 1986 I wrote a program for a factory that operated using [Space] and [Enter]. Someone asked with all seriousness where the space key was.   Its surprising how commonplace computers have become since then.

[SamirD]

This is the first keyboard I've seen with a space bar that's labeled.

In 1986 I wrote a program for a factory that operated using [Space] and [Enter]. Someone asked with all seriousness where the space key was.   Its surprising how commonplace computers have become since then.

It's amazing how things I would have to explain to people in the 90s are commonplace now.  I mean, almost everyone knows alt-ctrl-del now!

[ander]

(Obviously there's something wrong with us, but do you think it's serious?)

Yes, very. So much so that there's probably no turning back. So we might as well enjoy our screaming insanity...

This also gives us opportunities to post eloquent, poised-sounding video reviews of certain boards, thus creating terrific irony.

This is the first keyboard I've seen with a space bar that's labeled.

Indeed. I'd love to know what that worker was thinking while they were bothering to set up history's first (and last?) double-shot spacebar.

[SamirD]

(Obviously there's something wrong with us, but do you think it's serious?)

Yes, very. So much so that there's probably no turning back. So we might as well enjoy our screaming insanity...

This also gives us opportunities to post eloquent, poised-sounding video reviews of certain boards, thus creating terrific irony.

Here here!  I'll drink to that.