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Offline xCoolBeans

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Most expensive keyboard?
« on: Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:39:16 »
There is this http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=47112.0 LZSE for 700$ but there has to be one that is more expensive, is there?

Also links please
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:46:27 »
A few IBM variants are much more expensive. Look it up bro.
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:47:19 »
I'm pretty sure that gold plated HHKB special edition tops it (over $5,000 IIRC)
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:49:59 »
Quote from: daerid on Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:47:19
I'm pretty sure that gold plated HHKB special edition tops it (over $5,000 IIRC)

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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:55:40 »
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"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:56:53 »
Only $271??

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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:58:05 »
Quote from: rowdy on Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:55:40
Quote from: xCoolBeans on Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:49:59
Quote from: daerid on Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:47:19
I'm pretty sure that gold plated HHKB special edition tops it (over $5,000 IIRC)

Link?

http://www.likecool.com/HHKB_Gold_plated_keyboard--Desktop--Gear.html

A case from FMJ or Hammer alone could cost more than that.  :p
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:58:26 »
I knew some keyboards were expensive but damn...
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 00:00:08 »
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 00:01:08 »
Quote from: deltuhhh on Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:58:26
I knew some keyboards were expensive but damn...

Welcome to GeekHack. It would be safer to give your credit card to some stranger than to stay on these forums.
But hey! Strangers won't give you sexy looking keyboards!  ;)
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 00:01:16 »
Industrial SSK usually go for $1000 to $1250.
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #12 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 00:03:01 »
Quote from: FrostyToast on Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:58:05
Quote from: rowdy on Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:55:40
Quote from: xCoolBeans on Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:49:59
Quote from: daerid on Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:47:19
I'm pretty sure that gold plated HHKB special edition tops it (over $5,000 IIRC)

Link?

http://www.likecool.com/HHKB_Gold_plated_keyboard--Desktop--Gear.html

A case from FMJ or Hammer alone could cost more than that.  :p

Reminding me again how much I want a Hammer case for my Pure  :-X
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #13 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 00:04:02 »
I wonder what the most expensive keyboard would be that we could build (excluding keycaps, because that can get out of hand)

Premium FMJ case with weights
Titanium finished backplate
nixdorf housings with pale yellow stems
Duck Mini PCB

That's my guess for what would cost the most.
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #14 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 00:18:58 »
Webwit (from Deskthority) has a prototype Cherry G80-5000 (the “V80-5000”) with serial number 1. He said he paid $1000 for it, but I’m sure there are folks who would be willing to pay quite a bit more.
http://deskthority.net/wiki/V80-5000

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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #15 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 00:21:45 »
Quote from: FrostyToast on Thu, 10 July 2014, 00:04:02
I wonder what the most expensive keyboard would be that we could build (excluding keycaps, because that can get out of hand)

Premium FMJ case with weights
Titanium finished backplate
nixdorf housings with pale yellow stems
Duck Mini PCB

That's my guess for what would cost the most.

This would probably come close.

Add aluminium case for extra value.
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #16 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 00:32:33 »
I think some of those special hhkb's were like $5k or something like that.
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #17 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 00:43:54 »
Need all-titanium case, plate, keycaps. Mmmm, I want.
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #18 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 00:46:44 »
Don't the IBM M15s go for a pretty penny?
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #19 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 01:57:19 »
Has anyone mentioned the 4704 yet? Not sure if there was ever a price attached to it though, but certainly an extremely rare and desirable IBM board.
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #20 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 03:47:58 »
356CL. $4000~ (four thousand)
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #21 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 11:42:15 »
Quote from: rowdy on Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:55:40
Quote from: xCoolBeans on Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:49:59
Quote from: daerid on Wed, 09 July 2014, 23:47:19
I'm pretty sure that gold plated HHKB special edition tops it (over $5,000 IIRC)

Link?

http://www.likecool.com/HHKB_Gold_plated_keyboard--Desktop--Gear.html

no, no, no, no, no.

This is the one I'm thinking of:



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An anniversary edition now discontinued has the distinction of, at the time, being the most expensive keyboard available. Costing about US$5000 with Japanese VAT, the anniversary edition was hand lacquered with 10 coats of Urushi, a traditional toxic tree sap lacquer, and given a sprinkling of gold dust.
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Re: Most expensive keyboard?
« Reply #22 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 11:44:36 »
Quote from: noisyturtle on Thu, 10 July 2014, 01:57:19
Has anyone mentioned the 4704 yet? Not sure if there was ever a price attached to it though, but certainly an extremely rare and desirable IBM board.

I paid like $110 for the 4704/6019284 from Tinnie. If I proxied a board in NA for someone, the price goes up to like $130. Not *that* pricey.


Most I've paid for a board is ~$400. My Kingsaver and KMAC clock in around that price. Most money I've seen dropped on a board is about $1000 on an industrial SSK.
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« Reply #24 on: Thu, 10 July 2014, 11:56:14 »
Quote from: pasph on Thu, 10 July 2014, 11:49:50
http://www.datamancer.com/cart/the-reliquary-keyboard-p-195.html
Not even rare...

Holy...

Keyboard fit for royalty.

w/ALPS by the looks of it...
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