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The whales are fighting over this whale.

Who wants to invest in my new crypto currency? I call it Beam Coin.

Which is best? The one that works best for you

The actual apl keys are the extras of the set that were not used on the ssk.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/APL-Keys-for-use-with-IBM-APL-and-APL2-60-keys-Used/202226252866?hash=item2f159fbc42

APL IBM keys - but.. are they stickers!? Or, did they put sellotape to protect them? Not sure what's up with this,

The angle the APL symbols have on the 4 and 9 keys heavily suggests ...

I second that. All white is a tad boring on these. It's fairly easy to track down black Selectric keys at least.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Parall ... SwIBxaf0XI

Edit: Looks neat, just watch out for the shipping shenanigans. I doubt this takes $87 to ship

Those rubber dome membranes would make for some great packing material, along with the packing slip printed with a dot matrix printer.

Sorry to see the trouble. Maybe a BIN could be better if you have a good idea of what it would go for and sometimes this can be better than an auction style due to the a buyers fear of missing out. You can always start high and and accept offers or lower the price after x number of days.

Also if you start this process without having all the tools and supplies on hand you will have a it torn apart for a while. It can be very tedious depending how far you get into things. My process entails disassembly, removal and cleanup of old foam, making new foam, derusting springs, sonic ...

The old foam is always worthless and could contribute to some wobbliness. I'm not 100% sure if the new foam makes a huge difference though since the key modules are packed so close to each other. There will still be wobbliness when moving a key side to side when it is not pressed down. The foam does ...

Neat. I really like the color scheme.

I received this picture from a local contact of mine. I don't have more pictures yet. The keys remind me of Microswitch. I'll try and acquire it regardless though. Anyone here recognize this one?

https://deskthority.net/resources/image/45138

Earlier today I posted a keyboard to this thread for ...

Nice vid. Can't wait to see more.

Model M or M122 cases should be easy enough to acquire but the others simply would not be obtainable in any sizable quantity. I would recommend a separate option for those that would rather send you a case. I have an SSK for example that is scratched up from use and would make a nice candidate for ...

@Ellipse
Now that you are the leading authority on model F springs, have you considered offering an alternative spring with different feel for the boards?
Very interesting, maybe some lighter replacement springs for model Ms?

I would imagine you could buy extra Model F springs and use them in a ...

90% sure!?! How so? Beamsprings were only found in IBM keyboards. I can't say I've seen any IBM keyboard like this before but others here have been around a lot longer than myself.

Also doing up an SSK case all proper like would be the bee's knees. Add in Model F internals and a new controller and this would really be the cat's pajamas.

Chyros wrote: Hmmm, that sounds quite interesting, I might have to opt in on that 8) . Depends a bit on how much it costs though, I really have no idea what order of magnitude of dosh we're talking here...

You could always do a video review to justify the expense

I received this picture from a local contact of mine. I don't have more pictures yet. The keys remind me of Microswitch. I'll try and acquire it regardless though. Anyone here recognize this one?

cdaman wrote: I could open a group buy if anyone interested. I have manage to get 10 IBM model M case now

I'm in!

Just saying...
http://www.ebay.de/itm/122954459717

Odd...the keyboard with that 5160 has a white/beige cord/cable. I don't think I have ever seen a PC/XT keyboard with anything but black. Also the font size and possibly keycap color for the German specific keys does not match.

I agree, the ...

Wow really impressive work as usual.

Very nice! Looking forward to the full post.

ohaimark wrote: Yep, it's the one I just bought for a song. I'm flipping it to fund the purchase of a NIB Model M5-1 that was manufactured by Lexmark.

Does it have a Lexmark logo? If so that would be pretty awesome.

Compare the arrow onthe Y cap on the apl set in the ebay listing and the arrows on your unicomp apl set and your original apl. Would you agree the ebay listings font looks more like unicomp?

After comparing the the images side-by-side the eBay listing font does not appear to be Unicomp in my ...

I have 3 sets of APL keys. One set from the Model F vintage which typically were seen with the F104 keyboards, one set (in box) from the Model M era, and a new Unicomp set. All of the varieties I know of were key caps rather than solid one-piece (even though Model F's came with one-piece keys ...

I have 3 sets of APL keys. One set from the Model F vintage which typically were seen with the F104 keyboards, one set (in box) from the Model M era, and a new Unicomp set. All of the varieties I know of were key caps rather than solid one-piece (even though Model F's came with one-piece keys ...

This looks like Ohaimark's

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Brown-Alps-Compact-Green-Alps-Videowriter-Vintage-Mechanical-Keyboard/332544967576?hash=item4d6d398398:g:yrkAAOSwcN1aePAR

Also IBM SSK with APL keys.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-APL-Keyboard-Model-M-Part-No-1391472-Used/202218034037?hash ...

Groupbuy? lol