OMG, a truck load of IBM Model Ms...
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Mr.Nobody
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Almost 200 pieces says the owner; this is by far the largest single batch I've ever known. Where do these guys find them I really want to know.
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y11971alex
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These were manufactured in the millions. When a large batch was retired from offices, they were often delivered to suppliers en masse.Mr.Nobody wrote: ↑Almost 200 pieces says the owner; this is by far the largest single batch I've ever know. Where do these guys find them I really want to know.
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XMIT
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A (pickup) truck load of Model Ms is about 250-300 boards.
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snuci
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Thank God someone didn't find this a month ago 
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Mr.Nobody
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I believe they are professional E-waste scrappers or recyclers, E-waste wholesalers probably. Maybe they "imported" them via their shady trade channel. If I hadn't told them the worth of Model M, I think these Ms would have ended up in shredders at some disposal plant.Chyros wrote: ↑#DTA7 :p
So who are these people, where did they find them, and what are they going to do with them?
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Mr.Nobody
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I'd say a cable for every Model M. Most of them don't come with cables......Anyone knows where to get cables for Ms without been overcharged please tell me .
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Mr.Nobody
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Maybe the guy who talked with me just got a portion of that truckload.Holy......I am too far away, otherwise I'd have gone over and picked some up myself.XMIT wrote: ↑A (pickup) truck load of Model Ms is about 250-300 boards.
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Harshmallow
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I definitely need one of these in my life. I currently only have a new 1996 UK version.
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seebart
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Without sounding like a jaded ahole I can say I'm all set with M's:
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seebart
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Mr.Nobody
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I see , 200+ Ms would be half a year's workload even for Clickykeyboard...This month I accomplished a little humble rescue mission myself :seebart wrote: ↑results-f102/best-vintage-keyboard-or-c ... hilit=dta6
Without sounding like a jaded ahole I can say I'm all set with M's:
I bought this M with 75 Yuan($12.5) Cleaned it up(really filthy ,covered with some kind of dried up oil , hours of manual work) , turned the yellow badge back into white , and repainted it. The most difficult part is rearranging all inner keycaps to make them all crispy again , some keycaps were simply won't produce clicky sound at some position but at other position they would be perfectly okay , eventually every keycap found its RIGHT position.
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snuci
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Yes, seebart got it. I actually find it quite relaxing doing the mind work of cleaning keyboards and restoring items. It took me about two weeks to clean them all so this would be at least 10 times that amount.Mr.Nobody wrote: ↑I see , 200+ Ms would be half a year's workload even for Clickykeyboard...seebart wrote: ↑results-f102/best-vintage-keyboard-or-c ... hilit=dta6Mr.Nobody wrote: ↑Any story ? Please elaborate.
Nicely done!Mr.Nobody wrote: ↑ This month I accomplished a little humble rescue mission myself
I find that if you place them in location, turn the key caps 5 degrees clockwise and tap them in with one strong tap, the key caps will all click properly about 98% of the time. With 20 keyboards in that find, I learned that quickly. I also now know the order of Model M key caps without looking at another one now tooMr.Nobody wrote: ↑The most difficult part is rearranging all inner keycaps to make them all crispy again , some keycaps were simply won't produce clicky sound at some position but at other position they would be perfectly okay , eventually every keycap found its RIGHT position.
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that reminds me that I need ANSI keycaps for my SSK...
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Mr.Nobody
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[/quote]I find that if you place them in location, turn the key caps 5 degrees clockwise and tap them in with one strong tap, the key caps will all click properly about 98% of the time. With 20 keyboards in that find, I learned that quickly. I also now know the order of Model M key caps without looking at another one now too [/quote]
Thanks for the tip , Yes after several restoration missions , I can remember the layout too , at first I was surprised by the fact that I made mistakes putting keycaps back(Gee , after two decades of typing everyday ) If I couldn't remember their locations perfectly , how would I have been typing correctly for all these years ? Which is really a mystery to me...
[/quote]Thanks for the tip , Yes after several restoration missions , I can remember the layout too , at first I was surprised by the fact that I made mistakes putting keycaps back(Gee , after two decades of typing everyday ) If I couldn't remember their locations perfectly , how would I have been typing correctly for all these years ? Which is really a mystery to me...
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Mr.Nobody
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I have a grey lable one(1989) and a blue lable one(1992) sharing one piece of coiled SDL cable .Harshmallow wrote: ↑I definitely need one of these in my life. I currently only have a new 1996 UK version.