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Offline r3dx

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IBM Model M with Original Packaging
« on: Mon, 25 March 2013, 12:00:53 »
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Enhanced-Keyboard-model-M-clicky-keyboard-in-Org-Pkg-Un-tested-Cond-No-Res-/160994133052?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item257bff843c

Doesn't look like it's in that bad of condition. Hopefully it is in working order. Good luck to anyone that bids on it.  :D
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Re: IBM Model M with Original Packaging
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 25 March 2013, 12:04:27 »
An early-1989 probably has the heavy plate and wire stabilizers.

Looks like a desirable item and I would guess that it should fetch $100 or more.
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Re: IBM Model M with Original Packaging
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 25 March 2013, 13:14:16 »
An early-1998 probably has the heavy plate and wire stabilizers.

Looks like a desirable item and I would guess that it should fetch $100 or more.


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Re: IBM Model M with Original Packaging
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 25 March 2013, 13:14:17 »
looks good to me. i would grab this if it stays under 70$.
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Re: IBM Model M with Original Packaging
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 25 March 2013, 16:15:05 »
An early-1998 probably has the heavy plate and wire stabilizers.

Looks like a desirable item and I would guess that it should fetch $100 or more.

I don't think a grey oval label will have the wire stabilizers, but nevertheless, this is a good find.

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Re: IBM Model M with Original Packaging
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 25 March 2013, 16:22:20 »
I think the switch-over from wire stabilizers to plastic sleeves happened early-mid-1989.

“No political truth is of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands .… may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison, Federalist 47
“All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating of these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government. An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one .... in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.” — Thomas Jefferson, commentary on Federalist 48

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Re: IBM Model M with Original Packaging
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 31 March 2013, 15:41:01 »
I think the switch-over from wire stabilizers to plastic sleeves happened early-mid-1989.



I won the auction. It uses wire stabilizers.
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