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What's with the high bids on this one? Not even a Nixies one... https://www.ebay.de/itm/SIEMENS-NIXDORF ... SwuBVdntbB

Three Acer KB-102AS are up on German eBay, at least one with photo-confirmed blue ALPS. Pretty well yellowed, though...

Quite a flood of these around just now, eh?

anybody else thinking that ebay kinda dried out? Acutally, I've been thinking just that a lot for the last half year or so. Kleinanzeigen, too. Maybe a sort of critical moment has come where most of the remaining interesting vintage keyboards are already in the hands of collectors and laypeople hav...

Yes, Rafi-made for sure!

Myoth: I actually found an NMB board with space invaders in a practically identical case. What made you assume it's sliders-over-dome?

Hm, having mixed feelings about this one. It looks extremely flat, but could still have ALPS, no? Anyone got an inkling? Thanks!

Buggeritis!

Good luck, man! I always found these kinds of hauls very exciting, a bit like Christmas TBH. And rare enough for those of us who don't have friendly recyclers in their vicinity like some I could mention...

Update on the Matias switches

That's a *very* good rubber dome made by NMB. It is not, however, mechanical, even though it is noisier than quite a few clicky boards.

I reckon this has Fujitsu leaf springs in a very cool compact layout. High shippings costs kill it, of course. But maybe there's someone here from Australia who has a taste for it.

Quite monstrous, comes with an IBM system. Any ideas on switches?

Wow, you do have keen eyes! Let me guess, you're under 40?

And don't those boards have absolutely the weirdest [edit]lock indicators[/edit] y'all have ever seen?

Thanks! I just thought that was an Apple command key logo on those Alt keys...

If anyone wants one of those Siemens boards in the first picture let me know and I'll get them for you for 15€ plus shipping. There are also a G80-3000 LPMDE and a G81-1000HAD to be had from that seller. Let me know if interested. I want that NCR. Is that Apple (?) board at the bottom of the second ...

Early replacement board, says KTC on PCB - Keytronic?

Me not much of a connaisseur of anything that came before DIN plugs...

That raised Enter key on the Datalux!

There's a Televideo board with white space invaders up on eBay US, BTW...

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Wow, that seems a pretty unusual board - quite distinct in layout from the Cherry-assembled G80-2XXXs. Glad to hear you're enjoying it!

I'd get that Olivetti board if it's no more than 5 - 10€. Should have interesting short travel switches.

The one behind that should be a Monterey K208 (rubber dome).

The rest is modern crap...

This looks somewhat complicated inside. It's from a DEC Letterwriter 100 currently on eBay UK. A known switch?

kbdfr wrote: ↑

19 Jul 2019, 16:27

Well, the bidders list shows obvious shill-bidding.
The "bidder" shown as e***a (144) in the bid history is or has been bidding, as the details of his own bid history reveals, on multiple articles of the same seller in many different categories:

Thanks, Mr eBayWatch, well spotted!

Keybug wrote: ↑

16 Jul 2019, 20:28

Probably the only keyboard (okay, keypad) ever to feature an "Anal" key...

I'm actually getting it. Turns out it probably has green ALPS. I wonder if / what it will output using a serial plug adapter...

Probably the only keyboard (okay, keypad) ever to feature an "Anal" key...

Yeah, it does look very dusty...

G80-1000HAR, supposedly NIB. Any guesses how much it will go for?

Tandon 286 laptop, screams ALPS to me, but so far no nudie shot from seller. Unless he delivers, I'd consider it for maybe half the price...

You da man! Thanks.

Hey fellas,

Does anyone recognize the sublegends on this Cherry board? (Or maybe they were added manually?) I'm guessing PBT dyesub caps as there's no yellowing. Sorry about the tiny pic!

You're right, they don't, the pingy monsters! Mine sounded too unpleasant plus the width of the split didn't agree with me. I do love their overall design / shape, though, hence it's been my avatar pic here for ages (together with its quite rare sidekick numpad - I'd love to collect one of those...).

For me it's not really about reaching top speeds, but I reason that a setup that allows you a very high (sustainable) speed while keeping errors down will be the most comfortable and productive in everyday situations as well...

Very interesting replies, thanks a lot. Still makes me wonder whether the sound response could be completely replaced by tactile feedback - or which of the two is superior when it comes to its effect on typing speed. The question is a bit academical as practically all clicky switches have a tactile ...