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Offline 127001

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[Auction] 1391401 with Cable, Cheap Shipping (Stange Label)
« on: Wed, 29 January 2014, 12:46:37 »
http://www.ebay.com/itm/301082694290

Not sure why the label is the way it is... Refurbished?
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Re: [Auction] 1391401 with Cable, Cheap Shipping (Stange Label)
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 29 January 2014, 15:14:22 »
Probably just a misprint. It is a little surprising that it made it out of the factory like that.
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Re: [Auction] 1391401 with Cable, Cheap Shipping (Stange Label)
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 29 January 2014, 15:17:55 »
It looks to me like a "refurbished" label. It was definitely printed with a dot matrix printer. Not at all like the official Model M labels.
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Re: [Auction] 1391401 with Cable, Cheap Shipping (Stange Label)
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 29 January 2014, 15:24:30 »
Quote from: jdcarpe on Wed, 29 January 2014, 15:17:55
It looks to me like a "refurbished" label. It was definitely printed with a dot matrix printer. Not at all like the official Model M labels.

There are IBM labels that look just like that, even the fonts seems the same:



Only thing missing is the preprinted IBM logo etc. on the right.
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Re: [Auction] 1391401 with Cable, Cheap Shipping (Stange Label)
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 29 January 2014, 15:27:40 »
Hmmm, so it is.

Zero feedback seller, though. :(
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Re: [Auction] 1391401 with Cable, Cheap Shipping (Stange Label)
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 29 January 2014, 15:33:48 »
Quote from: E TwentyNine on Wed, 29 January 2014, 15:24:30
Quote from: jdcarpe on Wed, 29 January 2014, 15:17:55
It looks to me like a "refurbished" label. It was definitely printed with a dot matrix printer. Not at all like the official Model M labels.

There are IBM labels that look just like that, even the fonts seems the same:

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Only thing missing is the preprinted IBM logo etc. on the right.

That's actually produced on the day of my birth. Would be cool to own. It even comes with a cable and keyboard layout.
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Re: [Auction] 1391401 with Cable, Cheap Shipping (Stange Label)
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 29 January 2014, 15:57:52 »
Quote from: iAmAhab on Wed, 29 January 2014, 15:33:48
That's actually produced on the day of my birth. Would be cool to own.

Nice. Too bad that this particular one has the misprinted/faulty label, but it would be good to get if the price doesn't go too high. And if you ever found an upgrade, you could probably get your money back re-selling it.

A computer from my birth date would be more like this:

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Re: [Auction] 1391401 with Cable, Cheap Shipping (Stange Label)
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 29 January 2014, 16:03:02 »
Ah, I assumed the picture E twenty posted was from the listing. Gotta learn to read stuff and not get distracted by pretty pictures. The one in the listing was not forged on the same glorious day I emerged victorious from my mothers womb . And even if it was, shipping to Norway would destroy it for me.
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