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Offline jacobolus

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Re: cherry keyboard, $15,000 starting bid
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 12 February 2016, 00:23:17 »
This a normal price for it?   :eek:

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Re: cherry keyboard, $15,000 starting bid
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 12 February 2016, 00:27:28 »
It might be worth that if it was from the 18th century and made from the wood of the cherry tree chopped down by George Washington.

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Re: cherry keyboard, $15,000 starting bid
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 12 February 2016, 00:34:14 »
Wait... it's a Cherry product made for DEC? What DEC system I wonder?

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Re: cherry keyboard, $15,000 starting bid
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 12 February 2016, 07:50:36 »
It might be worth that if it was from the 18th century and made from the wood of the cherry tree chopped down by George Washington.
And in mint condition.

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Re: cherry keyboard, $15,000 starting bid
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 12 February 2016, 07:53:47 »
if an item says "very rare"in the title, chances are that it's not rare at all

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Re: cherry keyboard, $15,000 starting bid
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 12 February 2016, 10:59:10 »
It's rare as in it has a one-of-a-kind homemade wooden case. Oh, and it's missing a transformer.
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Re: cherry keyboard, $15,000 starting bid
« Reply #7 on: Fri, 12 February 2016, 11:04:13 »
By the way, the board is from a DECwriter.
Unicomp Classic | Chicony KB-5181 (Monterey Blues) | IBM Model M (1391401) | IBM XT Model F | IBM AT Model F | Dell AT101W | 122-key IBM Model F
IBM Model M13 | Apple Extended Keyboard | Apple Extended Keyboard II | MTEK K104 | NTC KB-6251/2 | Realforce 87U | Realforce 104U | Type Heaven

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Re: cherry keyboard, $15,000 starting bid
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 12 February 2016, 11:05:33 »
Unicomp Classic | Chicony KB-5181 (Monterey Blues) | IBM Model M (1391401) | IBM XT Model F | IBM AT Model F | Dell AT101W | 122-key IBM Model F
IBM Model M13 | Apple Extended Keyboard | Apple Extended Keyboard II | MTEK K104 | NTC KB-6251/2 | Realforce 87U | Realforce 104U | Type Heaven

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Re: cherry keyboard, $15,000 starting bid
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 12 February 2016, 18:54:09 »
  Quoting me causes a posting error that you need to ignore.

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Re: cherry keyboard, $15,000 starting bid
« Reply #10 on: Sat, 13 February 2016, 10:42:43 »
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