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Offline ch_123

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WTF? Black 82G'
« on: Thu, 03 December 2009, 03:18:59 »
http://cgi.ebay.ie/BLACK-1994-IBM-Model-M-Clicky-Keyboard-82G2383-Unit-398_W0QQitemZ140363800701QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Mice_Trackballs?hash=item20ae55a07d#ht_1155wt_941

Is this a mod job, or some freak one of a kind made by Lexmark?

Or did Brian have a leftover M13 case and put a normal IBM into it?
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« Reply #1 on: Thu, 03 December 2009, 03:56:20 »
Quote from: ch_123;138272
http://cgi.ebay.ie/BLACK-1994-IBM-Model-M-Clicky-Keyboard-82G2383-Unit-398_W0QQitemZ140363800701QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Mice_Trackballs?hash=item20ae55a07d#ht_1155wt_941

Is this a mod job, or some freak one of a kind made by Lexmark?

Or did Brian have a leftover M13 case and put a normal IBM into it?


Painted, looks nice.
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« Reply #2 on: Thu, 03 December 2009, 04:00:22 »
I'd say the keys are Unicomp ones, however they still have the ugly beige spacebar and alt keys.
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« Reply #3 on: Thu, 03 December 2009, 09:34:12 »
Also - that IBM label looks too big, was it pulled off something else and stuck over it? If the keys were custom made - why make the grey keycaps but not the ones for space and Alt? Why not use Black keys? Why not use a black lock-light label? Also, the back label could have come off another keyboard, which seems especially likely given that any 82G that I have seen had a permanently attached cable.

I am convinced that this was someone's mod job that someone hacked together and somehow ended up in Brian's hands.
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 03 December 2009, 10:26:22 »
You mean the label on the back? As I said, probably taken off another keyboard.
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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 03 December 2009, 10:46:31 »
Piling on Tiger Woods.  I love it.
 
Now that I think about it, "Woods" is a perfect name for a golfer; too bad he didn't respect the wood in the tree.  He and Jeremy Irons would make good celebrity doubles partners, if in name only.
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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 03 December 2009, 10:56:03 »
I'm pretty sure all Lexmarks had that shape of label.
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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 03 December 2009, 20:09:31 »
No they didn't.
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