Sold for
$1525.00 (+ shipping) with 22 bids. Yikes. So really, this 1995
Lexmark product is worth more than, say, the elusive 1395682 Industrial with the blue numpad keys? Wow. I guess everyone has their ideas about what's cool, but I know which one
I'd pick if I had that kind of dough lying around.
Wow, and it's just a Lexmark. Did IBM make anything like this before Lexmark split off? Man, those must be worth as much as a new car.
I don't get you ander.
I mean, it's not like it was even made by IBM. I had no idea
anything Lexmark made could be that valuable.
That said, I'm actually thinking about bidding on this. If I win it, I can sell all my keyboards to pay for it, then develop a system for writing all my email, forum posts and other typed stuff using number-pad characters...
You do know that it's not just a numpad, right? You can type with the letters on the big keyboard too.
I think I was so distracted by the wacky selling-price predictions, I forgot I'd left the numpad photo selected and thought that's what it was. Or I'm just getting senile. I still seem to remember how to type, so that's good.
What really gets me about this kind of thing is that you know the person who bought it isn't going to actually
use it. You don't pay ridiculous money like that for a keyboard and take any chances on lowering its value by putting your hands on it. It'll stay wrapped up in its nice tidy little box, and there'll be this sort of mummified keyboard-shaped
object with no purpose other than to sit there and be valuable.
What's the point? Venerating something so much it becomes useless—I guess that's just another goofy aspect of human nature.
Oh, and yes, you
bet I'd type on a 1395682. That way, see, you can also have it right on your desk, in front of your display, like a real keyboard, and admire it in its native habitat. Imagine.
