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All keyboards are now posted. If you have been holding out for something in particular, best to pick it out now before someone else does.

My taxes are sufficiently complicated that I may move to Seattle to be able to take you up on this offer.

Updated OP with some frequently asked questions.

See also viewtopic.php?f=17&t=25675 .

Relaying some messages from a user who is having account trouble... I am reaching out to you here as I have been locked out of my deskthority account after trying to update my email address in my profile. The deskthority board's email verification system is not working, and I can't email the admins,...

PM responded. To the others: I'm sorry to say that I'm not able to hold keyboards for anyone. I mark as "pending" when a purchase order comes in and move to "sold" when the order is closed. I'll advise when I'm down to my last couple. After these are gone, there may be a couple that really need some...

PM incoming for kicks. Glad the sales are going well!

Just buy a Unicomp man. bUt ThE qUaLiTy!!??! I have an IBM M122 and a Unicomp New Model M. I have no idea what people are talking about with the quality. Maybe the Unicomp Classic wasn't as good. The only real difference now is that the Unicomps don't waste money on pointlessly heavy metal panels. ...

Has the foam been reworked on these? Negative. Or at least, not to my knowledge. If I had reworked the foam on these, I would have posted photos, since a foam rework is about half a day of work and not to be taken lightly. I'd also be asking 800 USD if they had new foam, and I probably would have A...

I have tons of Model M boards but these are the only Model F boards that will be offered for sale in the foreseeable future.

...and, about zero interest, except for people complaining about the price. Let me explain. I offered these boards at $600 shipped is about $525-550 before shipping depending on where you are. It’s on the high side of F122 pricing. But these boards are clean, complete, and tested working. MrsXMIT an...

There's a broken and bootleg industrial painted one for $3k that started for several thousand higher that continues to not sell, so it would seem people wanting to empty their bank accounts on a keyboard would like it at least original and working. That's MrDuul's board. MrDuul was a huge troll her...

Palatino wrote: ↑

22 Apr 2021, 22:16

I want to buy anything from you now - keyboard, vase, unboiled egg, you name it - just to be able to have it arrive in exactly the condition it left.

Oh what luck, I just posted some boards for sale. I'll toss in an unboiled egg just for you. How you explain that to Customs, I don't know.

You've got lots of people, sitting at home, literally in front of a computer all day, with money piling up. Seems natural to me.

Once the pandemic eases up I bet plenty of folks will be trading keebs for plane tickets.

Reserved.

Reserved for sold items.

I have a cache of 122 key Model F terminal boards to sell! :o 500 USD shipped. To purchase: Send a Deskthority to PM with the following information: Subject: F122 Warehouse Sale for <your username here> Include: Location (country and postal code), PayPal email address, a list of the top two boards y...

I for one am looking forward to the inevitable post-COVID keyboard crash on r/mechmarket.

Also how many keyboards have a cool song dedicated to them? So, I went to MIT for undergrad about 15 years ago. Back then the first computer science course was 6.001, taught in Scheme, a variant of Lisp. Having non shifted parens would have been really nice. My fraternity at the time had its own so...

US $9,569.69

Welp, guess I'm never getting one. Time to re-learn CAD and start making them myself. The keys will be just like all the other Micro Switch boards I've got.

Congrats to the winner, I guess. $10k is a lot for a keyboard.

darkcruix wrote: ↑

18 Apr 2021, 22:24

It will end up very close to 10k ... a nice piece to put behind glass.
Sadly it doesn't ship across the pond

I'd be happy to proxy it over in case someone needs that service.

The 55g Nopre domes are vastly better.

https://chart-studio.plotly.com/~haata/573

I have a different method for small batches. The ultrasonic cleaner can do one keyboard's worth of caps at a time. I've started drying my keys on the shelves of a dehydrator, the sort of thing you might use for making beef jerky. It provides a steady stream of warm dry air and gets all the water out...

I would be careful with hand washing gel or anything that suds. I have a friend whose parent, at the time, worked for a large Chemical Marketing Company. Though they offered many consumer-grade soaps with names you would likely recognize, they all had one of two base formulas. They were, internally,...

I feel like HaaTa and I were discussing electromagnetic force curves using solenoids about five years ago. Have you calculated exactly how much power would be used by an HHKB sized board? I think it's prohibitive. It would be fine for prototyping key feels in a lab or as a one off but the power draw...

As I work through elecplus's warehouse inventory, I find myself posed with an interesting question: what is the best way to clean many thousands of key caps? Among other things, I like to have, at least, a basic understanding of the chemistry going on before I risk putting rare, high value items thr...

fohat wrote: ↑

18 Apr 2021, 02:59

XMIT wrote: ↑

17 Apr 2021, 18:03

I just can't deal with the plus shaped arrow cluster.

I always program the center as another down arrow, that way the muscle memory is happy and either way you aren't in trouble.

It'd be easy enough to remove the barrel (perhaps destructively on an M122) and just cover it, too.

FedEx paid out when they dropped my Selectric. It took about three weeks of sending photos and pinging them by email. I filed the claim as the recipient. Anyway, good luck.

The AT&T giveaway one by Dr. Lipschitz, it's in the process of being converted. I've been thinking of filling out a nice vintage clicky collection for bringing to meetups, but unsure if I'm willing to splash the cash for Alps SKCP, a Model F, SMK, Space Invader, etc. I'd focus on boards that people...

Am I missing something in this ad for Apple Keyboard IIs? 132 sold at $99 each, with shipping in the US for $30. They might be Alps mount , but they don't have Alps switches. Is everyone confusing them with the Apple Desktop Bus KB? 132 unhappy customers. :lol: I pass on these when I see them becau...