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Beautiful Northgate board. There is something about the chassis that brings out the best in the white alps. I find myself using my 101 with white alps more so than some of the blue alp boards in my collection. Thank you for sharing!

Honestly most of the gold badges that are out there are in pretty rough shape, the boards were built to last, but the plastic yellows very quickly and if any moisture gets into the housing, they will rust like no tomorrow. I have owned 5 gold badge Omnikeys and only one that I found felt as good as ...

I know i'm late to the party here, but wonderful restoration, I feel most of the built in beamers don't get the restoration they deserve.

I don't notice any difference compared to a normal cherry board

I have 3 Zenith project boards availible on ebay if that's the kind of thing you are looking for. Shipping might be a tad expensive across the pond sadly.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/254500388010

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I have always thought it would be a cool idea if there was a public database where you can document beamspring keyboards, and possibly other extremely rare keyboards. It would be a really interesting way we could get a better scale for how many of these keyboards are out there. At the same time ...

I'm not sure why those videowriter boards go for so much more than other Brown ALPS boards. Are they easily converted to USB and then using them, or are people harvesting switches?
I honestly believe the one that I sold at auction is a 1 off deal. I would be really surprised if this one sells for ...

Rare board for all of the Omnikey boys out there.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Northgate-Omni ... SwvjBbHGLI

hammelgammler wrote: Does anyone know what a fair price for a Beamspring 5251 and Beamspring Displaywriter (with rare wrist rest) is? I might want to sell both, although I'm not quite sure.

A fair price would be 700-800. If selling on ebay I would say 1250 for the 5251, and 1100 for the displaywriter.

Official sale thread. Get 'em while they are hot!
for-sale-f55/zenith-lot-sale-thread-z-1 ... 19164.html

Oh hey that's the one I sold. But I'll sneakily sneak out before I start getting decried again. :lol:

I thought that one went to Brett - did you have multiple boards?

In any case, these boards are lovely!
Yeah he had told me that at one point he had 3 or 4. The one that snacks has is in a ...

waldorf120 wrote: Not sure if this one has been posted yet. Honeywell monstrosity shipping from Greece:

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I have already bought one of these, and it is quite nice. The switches could probably use a good cleaning, but a very interesting keyboard.

As someone who normally isn't into heavily modified vintage keyboards, this is an amazing keyboard. Very impressive work. He payed attention to every little detail, and it really payed off with the finished project.

Absolutely incredible find. The slider is just like all of the double action switches I have seen. That also might be one of the best sounding linear switches that I have heard. I love the bottoming out sound. #dta2018 For sure.

Get your wallets out boys
https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Vintage-Hot-Wheels-Desktop-Computer-SYSTEM-KEYBOARD-MOUSE-SPEAKER-PC-GRAIL/332662708440?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D7ab95bfd0d9544dc9d84e6873aac1460%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd ...

Don't forget that the NEC I sold you has PBT dyesubs for the alphanumerics! ;)
How could I forget, not many alps boards like that. Those caps probably attribute to the unique sound of the keyboard.

//gainsborough
Now we need to see your alps collection. I know It will be a couple weeks to take ...

After seeing Gainsborough's collection post, and Nathen Kim's videos, I wanted to try my hand at it. So here is my blue alps keyboards that I have amassed, and a typing demo of each. I do not have a huge collection, as my favorite part of the hobby is restoring keyboards, along with browsing eBay ...

The best restoration of an F107 100%. Love how you are keeping it original. Looking forward to the finished product

https://www.ebay.com/itm/273210926877?rmvSB=true
Where is this guy getting his keyboards from? Remember that rusted to hell Alps SKCM Blue keyboard? This is the same seller.
I've talked to that seller on numerous occasions, and his source for all of these keyboards is a huge storage unit/building ...

Alright after cleaning up the first board, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is under everyone of the packing labels is 30 year old adhesive stuck to every key. This stuff seemed to be impossible to get off at first glance.

The good news is found a way to get it off. I first ...

You already saw this one ?

https://www.ebay.de/itm/163030220747

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/7GcAAOSw3uFa6s0Z/s-l1600.jpg
I am the lucky winner of this auction, went much cheaper than expected
If you ever want to get rid that ole boy let me know. I’d give you an arm and a leg for it :)
https ...

A few M122s this seller has sold have APL caps:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-VINTAGE-IBM-Model-M-1389162-with-Orange-Characters-Keyboard-NOV-1-1988-/282961849105?hash=item41e1d72b11%3Ag%3A1uQAAOSwKA1a9ef8&nma=true&si=Niw4vMGQco1sgb4cr%252Bt%252FCF7cVkA%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675 ...

Alright so the restoration process starts today. The keyboards that people have dibs on already with be restored first. I am debating what to do with the red badge board. I think the plan is to swap the case and caps to the insides of a white badge one that the case is damaged. Let me know what you ...

That one looks like the 4 that I had - looks like it has the spray on stuff over the switches. No idea why anyone would think that was a good idea.... still an awesome looking board though, even if it can’t be desolder we!
You are right, it has a weird matte coating over the switches and backplate ...

Wow, so glad you got the haul. That's the dream find right there. Put me down as interested in one of the white label Z-150's (or more) when the time comes for the sale. :)
After finding out about the military contract they had, I have been looking like crazy for somebody with a lot of surplus ...

A 700€ Nixdorf board
https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/8ieko7/eude_h_nixdorf_keyboard_nixies_switches_with_og?

Edit: Never mind, it is sold.
I am pretty excited, the guy who ended up buying it is going to sell the pcb and chassis to me! Unfortunately I couldn't convince him to part ...

As some of you guys might know, Zenith had a contract with the US air force in the 80's. They supplied them with lots of their computer's and laptops. The contract came out to be 242 million dollars for 90,000 desktop computers. Lots of these desktop computers came with Zenith Z-150's and Z-KB2's ...

I would say between 400-500 each. Used ones go for 200-250.

Nearing the end of the Zenith timeline! Great video.