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Offline Shawn Stanford

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Another old IBM washes up in the 'bay...
« on: Mon, 16 November 2009, 14:50:18 »
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Offline JBert

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« Reply #1 on: Mon, 16 November 2009, 16:28:48 »
Hmmm, seems like one of those buckling beam keyboards. Doesn't ship outside the USA though.
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #2 on: Mon, 16 November 2009, 16:39:22 »
Only $10, yet no international shipping... Urgh...

It's a Displaywriter board, for those who are interested.
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #3 on: Mon, 16 November 2009, 17:18:14 »
Some of it's 'brother' keyboards were quite nice, like the 5251 terminal keyboard for example -



The 3278 keyboard is probably one of the most awesome looking keyboards of all time though.
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Offline msiegel

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« Reply #4 on: Mon, 16 November 2009, 18:12:59 »
appearance aside, somebody should snag it :)

there's a limited supply of beam-spring switches out there... it would be great if more of us were holding on to them :D
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #5 on: Mon, 16 November 2009, 18:16:46 »
You should get one - see if you can fit the beam spring switches inside your modded Model F =P
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Offline msiegel

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« Reply #6 on: Mon, 16 November 2009, 18:28:51 »
Quote from: ch_123;133022
You should get one - see if you can fit the beam spring switches inside your modded Model F =P


i'm tempted... but the model f mod is designed to be case-less ;D
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #7 on: Mon, 16 November 2009, 18:48:05 »
You'd also need something to hold the BeSp switches against the plate... We really need an official Geekhack machine shop for this kind of stuff...
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Offline ak_nala

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« Reply #8 on: Tue, 24 November 2009, 03:14:44 »
Somebody snagged it for $9.99. Not bad for a beam-spring.

Wonder if it was one of us? Oh wait, it was me :)

Let the reverse-engineering commence!
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #9 on: Tue, 24 November 2009, 05:14:21 »
Huzzah!

Hopefully some means of recycling the Beam Springs will be found.
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