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- 09 Jul 2021, 20:05
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: IBM 6901 "Personal Typing System"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7999
IBM 6901 "Personal Typing System"
A few months back I acquired an essentially complete and mostly functioning IBM 6901 Personal Typing System including the original space saving keyboard, monitor, and printer. This system is a PS/2 computer similar to the IBM PS/2 Model 30 but marketed as a dedicated word processor that also happens...
- 09 Jul 2021, 19:14
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What's your piece of keyboard unobanium?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 188174
Re: What's your piece of keyboard unobanium?
The two on my list: IBM Model M 1397000 (they seem to have all vanished) IBM Model M industrial SSK You have good taste. I'm still looking for the industrial SSK (One got away while I was trying to get a better deal :x ). I will never see another like it as it had a special Chrysler overlay and I c...
- 28 Jun 2021, 18:55
- Forum: Other external
- Topic: Great/Interesting Finds
- Replies: 26267
- Views: 8797754
Re: Great/Interesting Finds
A red one!
Can someone proxy this to me?
- 05 Jun 2021, 06:24
- Forum: Other external
- Topic: Great/Interesting Finds
- Replies: 26267
- Views: 8797754
- 05 Jun 2021, 06:13
- Forum: For sale
- Topic: Free IBM 5251 backplate/tray
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1473
Re: Free IBM 5251 backplate/tray
Media blast and have it plated in a desired finish or primer and paint and this would be better than new..
- 01 Jun 2021, 04:55
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Share Your SEXIEST Vintage Boards!
- Replies: 139
- Views: 31909
Re: Share Your SEXIEST Vintage Boards!
Ok, honestly I'm not quite sure what to make of "SEXIEST" in the same sentence as "keyboard", but presumably it's used in the pornographic sense, in that seeing it makes one WANT it. I've gone out of my way to justify the look and feel of my keyboards (even to myself) in practical terms, other than...
- 01 Jun 2021, 04:45
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Appreciation Thread
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3034
Re: Appreciation Thread
I really appreciate MMcM's tireless efforts to bring various Micro Switch and other obscure vintage keyboards back to life. Truly a go-to resource for many in this community. I wish I knew half of what MMcM has perhaps forgotten over the years of hacking things.
- 28 May 2021, 16:45
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Seeking Soarer - evidence thread
- Replies: 640
- Views: 619262
- 28 May 2021, 15:02
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Seeking Soarer - evidence thread
- Replies: 640
- Views: 619262
Re: Seeking Soarer - evidence thread
so for french toast mix add full fat milk and 4 egg yolks to a large bowl, then half a cup of brown sugar and a dash of cinnamon sugar or regular cinnamon dip it in whatever bowl you like suggested pie plate. then dip it for 30 seconds on each side, then cook in butter with non stick or cast iron i...
- 28 May 2021, 01:47
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Seeking Soarer - evidence thread
- Replies: 640
- Views: 619262
- 27 May 2021, 17:23
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Seeking Soarer - evidence thread
- Replies: 640
- Views: 619262
Re: Seeking Soarer - evidence thread
I'll just leave this here: viewtopic.php?t=7177
- 25 May 2021, 19:48
- Forum: For sale
- Topic: [WTS] IBM Beamship and IBM 5251
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9333
Re: [WTS] IBM Beamship
Somewhere between $1k-9k usd It's such a niche market for stuff like this so it will always be difficult to say. More common variants regularly go for $1k-$1700.Easy_Spinach wrote: ↑25 May 2021, 18:12please disclose price after sale. Would be good to have something like a market price for this thing.
- 24 May 2021, 23:07
- Forum: Other external
- Topic: Great/Interesting Finds
- Replies: 26267
- Views: 8797754
- 19 May 2021, 20:35
- Forum: Other external
- Topic: Great/Interesting Finds
- Replies: 26267
- Views: 8797754
- 17 May 2021, 18:40
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Alps Lubricant FOUND!
- Replies: 698
- Views: 314469
Re: Alps Lubricant FOUND!
I've sort of wondered if paraffin wax could be applied in an application such as this. In the cycling community there is a niche practice of dipping bicycle chains into a molten pot of hot wax to achieve the cleanest and best performing bike chains. With a traditional wet lube a bike chain can becom...
- 13 May 2021, 16:14
- Forum: Other external
- Topic: Great/Interesting Finds
- Replies: 26267
- Views: 8797754
- 12 May 2021, 18:23
- Forum: Other external
- Topic: Great/Interesting Finds
- Replies: 26267
- Views: 8797754
- 11 May 2021, 18:14
- Forum: Deskthority wiki talk
- Topic: Early ALPS timeline
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10248
Re: Early ALPS timeline
Just to add a bit more mystery to your timeline we have these unknown square profile, double spring brown Alps switches in a TI low profile board - aka 'Fat Brown' Alps for the lack of a better name. https://deskthority.net/download/file.php?id=42886 https://deskthority.net/download/file.php?id=42887
- 09 May 2021, 20:16
- Forum: Other external
- Topic: Great/Interesting Finds
- Replies: 26267
- Views: 8797754
- 09 May 2021, 18:19
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Share Your SEXIEST Vintage Boards!
- Replies: 139
- Views: 31909
Re: Share Your SEXIEST Vintage Boards!
One of the sexiest vintage keyboard colorways ever. I feel the colors really look great with this homemade two-tone wood case. Definitely gives me some inspiration for a couple keyboard modules I have laying around. Overall this one is in pretty good condition but not as nice as this Honeywell IMG_E...
- 08 May 2021, 16:17
- Forum: News
- Topic: Stuff you just bought
- Replies: 2106
- Views: 779591
Re: Stuff you just bought
Spectacular board, JP! Reminds me of something … Got any plans to *use* it? A little more challenging than just plugging it in, unless you've a Honeywell terminal lying around. [/quote] Thanks for sharing that link. Always a good read. What you can't see from these pictures is the bottom of the PCB...
- 07 May 2021, 03:30
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What's your piece of keyboard unobanium?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 188174
Re: What's your piece of keyboard unobanium?
I've never seen this one before
- 07 May 2021, 03:21
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Various resto-mods
- Replies: 35
- Views: 42137
Re: Various resto-mods
Excellent work and dedication!
- 07 May 2021, 03:16
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Share Your SEXIEST Vintage Boards!
- Replies: 139
- Views: 31909
- 07 May 2021, 02:58
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Share Your SEXIEST Vintage Boards!
- Replies: 139
- Views: 31909
Re: Share Your SEXIEST Vintage Boards!
One in the mail:
Spoiler:
- 06 May 2021, 16:44
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Share Your SEXIEST Vintage Boards!
- Replies: 139
- Views: 31909
Re: Share Your SEXIEST Vintage Boards!
And you have the overlay stickers as well which is even more rare. I've only seen one other that was similar to this.
- 05 May 2021, 22:19
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Share Your SEXIEST Vintage Boards!
- Replies: 139
- Views: 31909
- 05 May 2021, 21:51
- Forum: News
- Topic: Stuff you just bought
- Replies: 2106
- Views: 779591
- 28 Apr 2021, 04:29
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Lockheed EP-3E Electronic Surveillance Aircraft Keyboard
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2162
Re: Lockheed EP-3E Electronic Surveillance Aircraft Keyboard
I was going to say that you have to keep the connector, even if you rewire the inside. But, if I'm right that this is the mate: https://www.newark.com/amphenol-aerospace/ms27467t23f55p/circular-connector-plug-size-23/dp/31K3195, it's $200. :shock: That's way more than I paid for the whole keyboard.
- 28 Apr 2021, 00:21
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Lockheed EP-3E Electronic Surveillance Aircraft Keyboard
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2162
Lockheed EP-3E Electronic Surveillance Aircraft Keyboard
Here is a keyboard that I recently bought from a seller on eBay who purchased a large lot of equipment from Lockheed. This was pulled from a Lockheed EP-3E which were used by the US Navy. :o Basically a keyboard for an airborne computer used for intelligence gathering, monitoring communications and ...