« previous next »
Pages:  [1]     Go Down

Author Topic: Is this Buckling sping or RD?  (Read 1526 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline blueSmoke

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 103
  • Location: Oakland, California
  • Life is what happens while you're busy Fixing RSI
Is this Buckling sping or RD?
« on: Wed, 19 June 2013, 03:48:00 »
Logged
Model M, Filco Tenkeyless White, Few others, few more others, Noise-hater (ongoing project), blah-blah (to be fillled later...)

Offline Sifo

  • Alter
  • * Exquisite Elder
  • Posts: 7504
  • Location: #GOLDSPRINGS, #LEGITBALLIN
  • Illustrious
Re: Is this Buckling sping or RD?
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 19 June 2013, 03:54:08 »
Dirty as hell, but looks like a BS M to me.
Logged
I love Elzy

Offline rootwyrm

  • Posts: 829
  • The Hands of Steel
    • My Website!
Re: Is this Buckling sping or RD?
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 19 June 2013, 04:13:15 »
That's a buckling spring M absolutely, yes. Rubber domes didn't get the two-piece keycaps.

Mechanical is usable as spare, but they're POS keyboards - not AT. No idea if you could do a controller swap without knowing the models, but usually yes.
Logged
"I remain convinced I am the only person alive who has successfully worn out an IBM Model M mechanically."
Daily Drivers: Adesso 625 (NPKC PBT / Kailh Blue), Rosewill RK9000V2 (KC PBT / MX Brown), 1994 Model M13, Sun Type4, and the rare IBM 1394540.

Offline CommunistWitchDr

  • Posts: 479
  • Location: St. Louis, MO
  • >implying keyboards
Re: Is this Buckling sping or RD?
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 19 June 2013, 06:57:36 »
You're not looking for spare left alt caps, right? Because the board pictured does not have a left alt cap, and as such would be an unreliable source of some.

I guess you could use the right alt as a left alt, but that's kinda sketchy.
Logged

Offline fohat.digs

  • * Elevated Elder
  • Posts: 6533
  • Location: 35°55'N, 83°53'W
  • weird funny old guy
Re: Is this Buckling sping or RD?
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 19 June 2013, 08:14:31 »
Controls and Alts are the same and will interchange.

At that price, it is less than the $30 most places charge for a set of key caps alone, even if they are missing a few.
Logged
"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

Offline CommunistWitchDr

  • Posts: 479
  • Location: St. Louis, MO
  • >implying keyboards
Re: Is this Buckling sping or RD?
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 19 June 2013, 08:20:24 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Wed, 19 June 2013, 08:14:31
Controls and Alts are the same and will interchange.

At that price, it is less than the $30 most places charge for a set of key caps alone, even if they are missing a few.

My post was mostly a joke, figured the last part about not using the right alt would give it away. Probably good to clarify for people new to model m caps though.


But yeah, the price look fair for spare springs, caps, and case even if you can't get it working.
Logged

Offline fohat.digs

  • * Elevated Elder
  • Posts: 6533
  • Location: 35°55'N, 83°53'W
  • weird funny old guy
Re: Is this Buckling sping or RD?
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 19 June 2013, 09:29:13 »
Quote from: CommunistWitchDr on Wed, 19 June 2013, 08:20:24

My post was mostly a joke, figured the last part about not using the right alt would give it away.

But yeah, the price look fair for spare springs, caps, and case even if you can't get it working.


Oops, didn't notice it without the sarcasm switch.

A Model M delivered in the low-$20 range is a good price for anybody who needs a pile of parts. I would not bother trying to convert a terminal to a daily driver unless there was some other compelling reason, such as putting a Model F into regular service.

However, with all the projects going on such as chopping and bolt-modding, I can see things like cases, plates, and springs having value for experimentation and replacement.

Also, a nearly-complete set of keys might come in handy for RIT dyeing projects and interesting color enhancements.
Logged
"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

Offline rootwyrm

  • Posts: 829
  • The Hands of Steel
    • My Website!
Re: Is this Buckling sping or RD?
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 19 June 2013, 17:55:22 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Wed, 19 June 2013, 09:29:13
A Model M delivered in the low-$20 range is a good price for anybody who needs a pile of parts. I would not bother trying to convert a terminal to a daily driver unless there was some other compelling reason, such as putting a Model F into regular service.

Oh gods no. Totally disagreed, especially on the POS boards. When they're the POS controller with the M matrix it literally is trivial to use them on a PC. You disconnect the matrixes, swap in a PC controller board, reconnect the matrixes and that's it. (Okay, and use the SDL to PS2 cable instead.) Also, some later POS boards actually speak AT over RJ45 - so it's just an RJ45->DIN6 connector adapt - but I can't even identify them by PN. :(
Logged
"I remain convinced I am the only person alive who has successfully worn out an IBM Model M mechanically."
Daily Drivers: Adesso 625 (NPKC PBT / Kailh Blue), Rosewill RK9000V2 (KC PBT / MX Brown), 1994 Model M13, Sun Type4, and the rare IBM 1394540.
Pages:  [1]     Go Up
« previous next »