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Offline blueSmoke

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What keyboard? reasonable price?
« on: Tue, 11 June 2013, 03:10:50 »
DEC Digital LK201 Keyboard for VAX and VT220 Systems LK-201AA:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-Digital-LK201-Keyboard-for-VAX-and-VT220-Systems-LK-201AA-/350758344761?pt=US_Vintage_Computing_Parts_Accessories&hash=item51aad39839

See the image vs the description!!!
The description is reasonable? lol.

Untested.
 Slight yellowing form age.
Missing some keys
Sold as is.
 
What switch is this? Does not look like RD.
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Re: What keyboard? reasonable price?
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 11 June 2013, 03:18:23 »
I just posted photos of the exact same model, in much better condition.

In the Jalopnik tradition, I shall call this a "nice price or crack pipe" evaluation.

This seller has smoked the contents of a den of iniquity and is working on a second one as we speak, clearly. Seriously. $40 for that example? Not a chance in hell. One, best case you're looking at really terrible linear or rubber dome. Two, good luck getting keycaps - they have the stem (which is also the actuating element) plus two stabilizing latches even on the 1x1s. Three, it's beat to hell so almost certainly doesn't work. Four, that's not "used" that's "thrown down a flight of stairs and then beaten with a hammer for good measure."

This is what an LK-201AA in decent physical condition, decades of dirt, and some yellowing looks like (with a keycap removed for illustrative purposes.)
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Re: What keyboard? reasonable price?
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 11 June 2013, 05:31:04 »
I have one of something like that lying around, along with the rest of a VT220.  It worked too, last time I tried it.
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