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SneakyRobb wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 19:30

Ah good catch JP! !

You remembered the exclamation mark after my name!

I think an investigation may be in order. Might not be a bad idea to try and reach out to some old IBMers who spoke or attended this reunion.

So does serial #0001 go to someone or is this reserved to it's creator?

Hi, Your keyboard was likely made in Don Mills/Toronto Canada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqjWNgUI94E Some images in the 20seconds to 2+ minute mark There was a majorly huge IBM factory there that produced a large number of beamspring keyboards ibm Toronto.JPG This must be IBM Mecca :shock: Als...

Such a neat find! Beamspring APL is quite rare these days so finding these specific keys or any regular keys for that matter is quite impossible. You're best bet would be to somehow come across a second just like it ;) or a vanilla 3278/3279 to fill in the missing keys. I've only came across one oth...

I would have expected the tag on the cable to have been much older. This is totally weird. Maybe the factory that manufactured the cables had some NOS cables in reserve and re-tagged them. Also I'd be curious to know if there are any manufacturing date codes on any IC's on the PCB.

ZedTheMan wrote: ↑

07 Dec 2019, 21:46

Looks like a lovely set! Nice get! I quite like the bigfoot I purchased during the sale.

Nice. I had already bought 2 bigfoots (2 for the price of 1) in rough shape to restore. This sale a couple years ago would have solved that problem

This just arrived in the mail and was one of several which Unicomp sold on during their Black Friday sale. I would say it was a really great deal for $89. :D 1394625_800x329.jpg I ordered this keyboard on 11/29 but was actually 'manufactured' several days later. Having a new nos hybrid keyboard is r...

John Doe wrote: ↑

04 Dec 2019, 05:53

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Keybor ... Sw7EJdy8AF

Anybody know something about the board? Seller used "beamspring" description but couldn't see any switch info.

Whatever it is I can say it's not IBM or a beamspring.

What about this other post?
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=23063&p=455642#p455642

Darkshado wrote: ↑

03 Dec 2019, 16:06

I smell an edit spam necro post, original thread here: viewtopic.php?t=8678

I see your BS detector is working

The german scrap king has today what looks like a beam spring with blue housings (???) https://www.ebay.de/itm/Vintage-Keybord-Beamspring/184066104874?hash=item2adb31de2a:g:0KoAAOSwlyVd5O3i I don't remember ever seeing beam spring switches like those. Condition is less than ideal though. Neat. This...

We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of this keyboard or related systems. Regardless it's an absolute gem.

Model M with APL keys back on the menu
https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/1394625

Whoa this is amazing!

I think Hasu was working on something like this.

Now that nominations for this years best finds / collections / restorations are in the hopper for the DTA awards, I figured now was the best time to do a quick recap of this years finds and adventures. ;) [Warning] Abandon all hope if you choose to continue on with this madness and the rabbit holes ...

Not sure of the switches but looks familiar.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Decision-Data- ... SwhYNd5AfG

Looks like Haata beat me to this one as well. Apparently this is a Sony OA-S3400 Keyboard. https://www.flickr.com/photos/triplehaata/albums/72157661805766530 and https://deskthority.net/wiki/Sony_OA-S3400_Word_Processor https://deskthority.net/wiki/images/6/6a/Sony_OA-S3400_Word_Processor_lid_open.j...

I wasn't a big fan of NEC blue but then again the board I do have is extremely filthy and have a NOS white Alps board so it's not a fair comparison for me. Also I do have another very well used white Alps board that is heinously terrible.

Model F AT
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Refurbished-Cl ... 1cde2b7aa1

Thanks for sharing this here! I wish I could have attended, maybe next year though!

Model M's with Arabic legends (pricey though)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-ibm-model- ... 4041240754

That is one sexy Micro Switch board. I'd go with black myself.

Welp...all of the APL keyboards are gone.

They used to sell a set with orange legends but the quality was really poor and now they sell a set with blue legends instead.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/USAPLSET

I have an extra nib Chinese Pingmaster I'd sell.

I didn't buy anything last night but lot's of stuff is gone now. There were 19 of the 3270 APL keyboards and now there are 7! No much knowing about APL capsets, is 90 a good price? I paid $70 for a NIB set once so $90 for a converted Model M with APL keys seems like a great deal. Uncommon, but not ...

I didn't buy anything last night but lot's of stuff is gone now. There were 19 of the 3270 APL keyboards and now there are 7!

yuchipashe wrote: ↑

29 Nov 2019, 03:55

Interestingly, more Bigfoot Fs, an M122 APL converted to USB from 1993 for $90, and an M50 w/o cable for $70.