Kishy makes a decent point, especially to those of you who **** on ebay finds that you're currently bidding on. This kind of nonsense only causes everyone to overpay for this kind of gear.
I spent a few months watching Dolch units trying to get my hands on one that was in good working order because I wanted the COMPUTER too, and keyboard poachers were driving up the prices to silly levels for a barebones 486 system. I finally got my hands on one for a reasonable price in working order with the keyboard, but these units are useless as portable machines without the snap-on keyboard.
Oh, and for the record, the build quality of the Dolch keyboards is a joke. The rest of the system is rock solid, but those keyboards, while an interesting layout with pretty keycaps, are so easily marred, cracked and scuffed it's not pretty. Soft plastic I guess, but even Cherry brand boards are tougher than these things. If you're after a high quality Cherry board, the Dolch, while great eye candy, ain't it.
On top of that, most of the units out there require hacking up a phone cable to make a usable connector for AT / PS/2.
For the key cap harvesters, they don't fit snugly on more recent Cherry boards (MX-11900), falling off pretty frequently under normal typing conditions. I can make a youtube video illustrating all of these facts for anyone that's considering buying one for such purposes.
Cool layout, nice key caps, funky and retro, but still only a C+ to B- board in the best of situations.
