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Offline orihalcon

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Displaywriter Beamspring - $165 shipped
« on: Thu, 14 May 2015, 18:22:48 »
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231562129574

Shipping shows $55 for me, but could be more or less depending on your location.
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Offline unoab

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Re: Displaywriter Beamspring - $165 shipped
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 14 May 2015, 18:26:47 »
Shows $55 for me too, I threw an offer on it about a half hour ago when I saw it, but no reply back yet.
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Offline jonathanyu

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Re: Displaywriter Beamspring - $165 shipped
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 14 May 2015, 18:57:05 »
the index key looks weird to me
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Offline orihalcon

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Re: Displaywriter Beamspring - $165 shipped
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 14 May 2015, 19:05:45 »
The stem is just bent on it.  Can straighten it out with a pliers easily and quickly, so that shouldn't be a deal breaker luckily!
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Offline E TwentyNine

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Re: Displaywriter Beamspring - $165 shipped
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 14 May 2015, 19:16:11 »
Quote from: orihalcon on Thu, 14 May 2015, 19:05:45
The stem is just bent on it.  Can straighten it out with a pliers easily and quickly, so that shouldn't be a deal breaker luckily!

May not even be bent, may just be bad mounting of the keycap.  The 1 key looks a little bit off too.
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1984 Model M Industrial Prototype ⌨ 1992 Black Oval Industrial SSK ⌨ 1982 5251 Beam Spring ⌨ 89 Key "SSK" ⌨ M13 triplets

Offline E TwentyNine

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Re: Displaywriter Beamspring - $165 shipped
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 14 May 2015, 19:18:55 »
Why are you guys messing around with offers?  If you're offering $80 and it sells for $109 you're going to be kicking yourselves.  $165 shipped is the lowest we've seen one of these in a while.

These things don't come up often, especially the white whales.  Just buy it.
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Daily driver: SSK or Tenkeyless IBM AT
1984 Model M Industrial Prototype ⌨ 1992 Black Oval Industrial SSK ⌨ 1982 5251 Beam Spring ⌨ 89 Key "SSK" ⌨ M13 triplets

Offline unoab

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Re: Displaywriter Beamspring - $165 shipped
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 14 May 2015, 19:28:24 »
Quote from: E TwentyNine on Thu, 14 May 2015, 19:18:55
Why are you guys messing around with offers?  If you're offering $80 and it sells for $109 you're going to be kicking yourselves.  $165 shipped is the lowest we've seen one of these in a while.

These things don't come up often, especially the white whales.  Just buy it.

Well I don't really need one, but I lowballed it, if he accepted it, I would have been happy, if not I can live without one.  I have more keyboards than computers now, and more projects than time, him rejecting my offer is a good thing in other words..
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Offline jonathanyu

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Re: Displaywriter Beamspring - $165 shipped
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 14 May 2015, 20:01:24 »
little tempted to click the bin button  :p
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Offline unoab

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Re: Displaywriter Beamspring - $165 shipped
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 14 May 2015, 20:31:47 »
Quote from: jonathanyu on Thu, 14 May 2015, 20:01:24
little tempted to click the bin button  :p

Go for it! and phosphorglow will soon have some controllers for ~$50 from the recent group buy so it can be fully functional.
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Offline Touch_It

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Re: Displaywriter Beamspring - $165 shipped
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 14 May 2015, 23:38:45 »
Sigh.  It is a great deal.  Just a bad time for me to buy it, otherwise I 100% would.
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Offline Vanilla

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Re: Displaywriter Beamspring - $165 shipped
« Reply #10 on: Fri, 15 May 2015, 20:46:31 »
Quote from: E TwentyNine on Thu, 14 May 2015, 19:18:55
the white whales.

Being an owner of one already, this is an understatement. It's HUGE!

They cleaned it up very well. Buyer beware though, having handled it myself and passed on it, there's other issues with it. Possibly necessitating spares
This keyboard used to belong to the Oakland Unified School District and will be marked that way on the underside with asset tags.

Proof I had some behind the scenes keyboard action:
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