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Offline fohat.digs

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Decent Model M on ebay
« on: Sat, 12 April 2014, 14:54:18 »
This looks to be a good specimen, and at a good price these days:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=141253333245&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123
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Re: Decent Model M on ebay
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 12 April 2014, 18:12:22 »
$65 shipped is a good price these days? Aren’t there fairly regularly ones selling for $20-30 cheaper than that?
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Re: Decent Model M on ebay
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 12 April 2014, 18:42:16 »
I haven't bought an M in at least a year, but I got the impression that good ones have been selling in the $50-70 range + shipping.

This looks to be a clean, tested, complete early 1391401 model with heavy plate and PS/2 cable at the very low end of that range.

When 52Gs and 92Gs are selling at similar price points, this one is far more desirable, in my opinion.
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“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power."
He paused for a moment, then thundered, “Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power!”
“In vain,” Roosevelt said, “they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
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Re: Decent Model M on ebay
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 13 April 2014, 17:59:11 »
If they're really going that high, then why not just unicomp instead?
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Re: Decent Model M on ebay
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 13 April 2014, 18:17:58 »
For the same price, I would choose a new Unicomp with native USB and warranty over any post-1988 IBM/Lexmark M, and probably over an early M, unless it was complete and in excellent condition. (However, I am fond of the 1390131 with the metal badge.)

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“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power."
He paused for a moment, then thundered, “Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power!”
“In vain,” Roosevelt said, “they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
- Franklin Roosevelt 1933
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