Great/Interesting Finds

Ascaii · 03 Nov 2014, 23:10

gogusrl wrote: ↑Looks like it.

pics and link for the lazy ppl

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-White-A ... 27efb7ea25

This board is from a Demand 9002 military computing unit.

gogusrl · 04 Nov 2014, 00:43

I wonder how many people did this after your post

"Yay! You're now following Demand 9002 in your eBay Feed.You will receive email alerts for new listings."

RoflCopter · 04 Nov 2014, 23:00

Ugh. Sometimes I just wish the US would invade Canada and get it over with. These international shipping prices are absolutely ridiculous. Why would I pay $50 for shipping a $30 keyboard? Damn it all.

Also, This:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-IBM-Model-M- ... 1703892894

What the heck? That's clearly a Model F, but it's labelled Model M... Halp. If not for the shipping I'd probably buy this and just see what I got, but considering the shipping is another $45 US on top of the $90... well. $160 CAN is a fair amount of money to spend on a maybe.

Laser · 04 Nov 2014, 23:29

RoflCopter wrote: ↑Ugh. Sometimes I just wish the US would invade Canada and get it over with. These international shipping prices are absolutely ridiculous. Why would I pay $50 for shipping a $30 keyboard? Damn it all.

Also, This:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-IBM-Model-M- ... 1703892894

What the heck? That's clearly a Model F, but it's labelled Model M... Halp. If not for the shipping I'd probably buy this and just see what I got, but considering the shipping is another $45 US on top of the $90... well. $160 CAN is a fair amount of money to spend on a maybe.

That seems to be a Bigfoot. Contact Cindy/elecplus, she seems to have one for 25$ + shipping from US:

http://deskthority.net/post191753.html#p191753

RoflCopter · 05 Nov 2014, 00:19

Laser wrote: ↑
RoflCopter wrote: ↑Ugh. Sometimes I just wish the US would invade Canada and get it over with. These international shipping prices are absolutely ridiculous. Why would I pay $50 for shipping a $30 keyboard? Damn it all.

Also, This:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-IBM-Model-M- ... 1703892894

What the heck? That's clearly a Model F, but it's labelled Model M... Halp. If not for the shipping I'd probably buy this and just see what I got, but considering the shipping is another $45 US on top of the $90... well. $160 CAN is a fair amount of money to spend on a maybe.
That seems to be a Bigfoot. Contact Cindy/elecplus, she seems to have one for 25$ + shipping from US:

http://deskthority.net/post191753.html#p191753

Thanks for the reply. With a cooler head, and after looking into it a bit more, I've realized that the work necessary to mod one of these to work with a modern PC is probably beyond what I'm comfortable doing, regardless of the price. Oh well.

Laser · 05 Nov 2014, 10:38

At least now you know you don't want it

RoflCopter · 05 Nov 2014, 17:31

Laser wrote: ↑At least now you know you don't want it

That's not to say I don't drool over getting a model f; I just don't think I'm up to messing too much with soldering new cables, etc, especially with the Bigfoot model. Someday maybe.

Muirium · 05 Nov 2014, 21:43

Answer to a now deleted post…

Like these?

http://deskthority.net/wiki/NMB_Hi-Tek

They're pretty good.

http://deskthority.net/review-f45/nmb-r ... t8469.html

macmakkara · 05 Nov 2014, 21:44

Oh Mu was faster aand he deleted his message.

Muirium · 05 Nov 2014, 21:45

Here it is:

Jimmy54669 wrote: ↑Hi i found a NMB RT-6251TRG it has some weird looking switches is it something worth ?

gogusrl · 05 Nov 2014, 22:01

Alps clones with very nice Cyrillic doubleshots.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CLICKER-MECHANI ... 7711&rt=nc

Jimmy54669 · 05 Nov 2014, 22:35

ah thx guys ya i postet it at "what is it worth"

Nuum · 05 Nov 2014, 22:49

I've googled for that a while ago. I can't remember for sure but I think it was a rubberdome or some kind of slider over dome. In the end I decided for me that it isn't interesting.
But I'm not sure about that since it was really a while ago. Maybe you can ask the seller to take a photo with a keycap removed.

Daniel Beardsmore · 05 Nov 2014, 23:46

Muirium wrote: ↑Here it is:

Jimmy54669 wrote: ↑Hi i found a NMB RT-6251TRG it has some weird looking switches is it something worth ?

I presume he meant NMB dome with slider. RT-6xxx should be rubber dome over membrane (and with sliders I guess). RT-8xxx is space invaders.

Jimmy54669 · 05 Nov 2014, 23:59

look what I found http://www.ebay.de/itm/AT-Cherry-MX-500 ... 19ed3c7c0c

Daniel Beardsmore · 06 Nov 2014, 00:08

What's with the separate left and right Windows keys on that? Does anyone seriously apply separate custom bindings to the two Windows keys separately?

BlueBär · 06 Nov 2014, 00:52

Clearly two are better than one.

Jimmy54669 · 06 Nov 2014, 01:27

its right and left win-key dono why its should be usefull

Jimmy54669 · 06 Nov 2014, 01:43

mh can find any infomations of NMB RT-6251TRG found this http://deskthority.net/wiki/NMB_keyboar ... -RT101.1-1 but there are no rt62xx models listet its starts at RT66xx

here some pics:

elecplus · 06 Nov 2014, 03:05

RoflCopter wrote: ↑
Laser wrote: ↑
RoflCopter wrote: ↑Ugh. Sometimes I just wish the US would invade Canada and get it over with. These international shipping prices are absolutely ridiculous. Why would I pay $50 for shipping a $30 keyboard? Damn it all.

Also, This:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-IBM-Model-M- ... 1703892894

What the heck? That's clearly a Model F, but it's labelled Model M... Halp. If not for the shipping I'd probably buy this and just see what I got, but considering the shipping is another $45 US on top of the $90... well. $160 CAN is a fair amount of money to spend on a maybe.
That seems to be a Bigfoot. Contact Cindy/elecplus, she seems to have one for 25$ + shipping from US:

http://deskthority.net/post191753.html#p191753
Thanks for the reply. With a cooler head, and after looking into it a bit more, I've realized that the work necessary to mod one of these to work with a modern PC is probably beyond what I'm comfortable doing, regardless of the price. Oh well.

Clearly the seller is a bit confused, or has posted some extraneous pics. 4176191 is the correct PN for the bigfoot, which this seems to be. Unfortunately, I shipped my last one (for the moment) out today.

RoflCopter · 06 Nov 2014, 09:16

elecplus wrote: ↑ Clearly the seller is a bit confused, or has posted some extraneous pics. 4176191 is the correct PN for the bigfoot, which this seems to be. Unfortunately, I shipped my last one (for the moment) out today.

What good would it do to buy one anyway? Is there any conversion possible for a bigfoot Model F?

Also, I found this. Doesn't look too bad. The seller doesn't seem to know what they have, but it looks like a keyboard from a 5155 Portable PC. Anyone think it's worth buying?

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-IBM-Port ... 1181042971?

Daniel Beardsmore · 06 Nov 2014, 09:25

Jimmy54669 wrote: ↑here some pics: …

You didn't take a photo of the switches …

jacobolus · 06 Nov 2014, 09:48

Daniel Beardsmore wrote: ↑
Jimmy54669 wrote: ↑here some pics: …
You didn't take a photo of the switches …

Definitely NMB rubber domes.

seebart · 06 Nov 2014, 10:26

look what I found http://www.ebay.de/itm/AT-Cherry-MX-500 ... 19ed3c7c0c

that´s a classic example of crazy overpricing, that ErgoPlus has been in there for a while.

Jimmy54669 · 06 Nov 2014, 15:46

is it worth anything ? the NMB RT-6251TRG maybe because it rar or something ? and thanks jacobolus

Muirium · 06 Nov 2014, 16:23

Nah, we don't like rar.

Anyway, things can be rare and worth very little indeed. Interest is what drives prices. Only then does scarcity matter.

Daniel Beardsmore · 06 Nov 2014, 20:02

Jimmy54669 wrote: ↑is it worth anything ? the NMB RT-6251TRG maybe because it rar or something ? and thanks jacobolus

Well, it's worth cleaning up and documenting on the wiki. Nobody's ever documented that type before and then we'll have our documented evidence that the membrane RT101* became RT6nnn. Cheap keyboards might not be worth money, but they're often worth more just in the value of the knowledge they contain.

gogusrl · 07 Nov 2014, 16:10

Mx clear both of them (at least I hope so since I already bought the third one).
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-MediChip- ... 2a46bd035f
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-MediChip- ... 2a46bcd4d9

edit : just checked the wiki, they're black. I feel so dumb

Laser · 07 Nov 2014, 16:15

Nah, for a total of 40 € you have now:
- very good black springs (and stems, if you like linears)
- stabilizers
- keycaps

So, more options for building other keyboards

gogusrl · 07 Nov 2014, 16:16

I already have 3 x g80-1800 with blacks (before you ask, they were very cheap). I really wanted to try out mx clear. Guess I'll keep looking.