I'm not surprised about the pricing.
In terms of actual aesthetics, layout, and switches I'm very fond of the DC-3014. Your Fame KB is essentially a Chicony KB-5161; the Big Ass Enter isn't a usability problem, but it isn't pretty. (I assume you have ALPS Blues and not Tai Haos?)
Salmon ALPS AT101Ws (that is what you have?) are pretty rare, but I don't think they hold a candle to the DC. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Regardless, you have a nice collection. In terms of total rarity you might even have me beat, as my third board is just an IBM 5150 XT.
Haha, I wasn't trying to incite a pissing contest based on rarity here. Just teasing because of the comment leveled at the Model M and Zenith's cable lengths. The Dell AT101 has a gargantuan cable.
Oh yeah, I've done a lot of research on practically every board I own. I don't go in obliviously, hehe. The Fame TH-5539 is actually larger and thicker than the Chicony 5161, though it has very very striking similarities to it (I added the bits to the wiki article xP). It also has a metal bottom panel like the Zenith and Omnikey and unlike the Chicony. Here's an album!
http://imgur.com/a/koUlt The pencil holder ridge, as I like to call it, also has a slightly different bevel to it between the 5161 and the Fame. :3 It also uses brass inserts for screw mounting into the bevel whereas the Chicony uses none and has screws dig directly into the plastic. So it's higher quality, I guess.
I would say that it is probably one of the rarest boards I have seen. I always see the smaller ones with the Tai Hao or APC clones. I have yet to see another one with the big foot style and true blue alps, so please let me know if you find one! I noted someone with a post from around 2011 or so saying that they had found a Fame with blue alps on ebay.de, but all of the picture links were dead. Like you, I'm somewhat skeptical because of how similar the Tai Hao Aruz looks to Blue Alps at a glance.
That a an AT101, not W, but the original with the GYI3PVAT101 FCC ID. It has a DIN connector on it, which is pretty seldom seen on these. When I start restoring it, I'll take a peek at the MFG date on the inside of the case since I'm super curious about it.
Thank you for the compliments. A DC-3014 is quite nice! I'm not a fan of Leading Edge's case designs, but they are very sturdy, well-built, and the PCBs are really nice.
Rarity is a hard thing to determine when it comes to these old guys. I mean, it's kind of a relative thing. Sometimes you see a board rarely pop up. Sometimes a bunch all come up. I've seen around three or so DC-3014s come through eBay lately, whereas only a few original AT101s have come through lately. Tons of the Ws and black alps 101s. Also noticed a couple Acer KB101As pop up too, so I guess it's a YMMV sort of thing, really.
The Zenith is not such a rare board from what I've been seeing, but it is nice, and I have a fondness for metal back panels on keyboards.
Hehe, but yeah.