There was an olivetti 785 NIB in Portugal for sale. I had been talking with the seller for some time(presented my masters thesis this week, so no time for keyboards
) and managed to go and see the boards for myself today....yes boards! Turns out the seller had 3 of these puppies brand new, and 1 of them was even sealed! The other was complete but unsealed. and the third one was only the keyboard itself in box. I will put here a mini gallery I did on the unboxing of the NIB one, and some pics of the others, enjoy, i surely did
The 3 boxes:
Unboxing:
The box itself, pretty big box I would say
Opening the box:
Contents: The keyboard, instruction manual, power cable for something...and replacement caps!
will show those in detail next.
Ok so here is the keyboard itself:
Detail of the replacement caps. These include an alternate enter key, and caps to enable different language layouts:
Only 2 of the boxes had these, one of them is still sealed.
Thin SP doubleshot plastic blue on light gray, blue on dark gray for F row.
The 3 keyboards!
Detail for the opened one:
Mx blacks, don't know if vintage or not, looking at the logo, looks like normal blacks i think(someone correct me if I am wrong):
Big spacebar! but detail for the black metal plate and pcb mounted stabs
Any other pics you should want please say
I still have to open one of these up but I have to get to work. Hope you enjoyed, i know I did