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Best vintage keyboard or cache

Posted: 04 Dec 2016, 01:32
by seebart
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Round 3 rules:
It's time to choose this year's winner. Please vote to determine the best vintage keyboard or cache of 2016.

See the first and second round for reference. Congratulations to all participants.

The final round ends on Saturday 10 December, 20:00 UTC. You can change your vote until the end of the round.
The full results will be published at the end of the awards.

Official nominees:

Photekq's throne of G81-3100SDUs
Photekq, a notorious Cherry hoarder, found quite a few SDUs.

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Atomicthumbs' beam springs
The forum collectively turned :mrgreen: with envy when atomicthumbs found two beam spring keyboards. One was APL.

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Spoiler:
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Cindy's Unsaver haul
Cindy, A.K.A. elecplus, regularly acquires lots of vintage keyboards. The Unsavers didn't last long when marketed to Deskthority users!

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Snuci's Model M rescue
Snuci rescued more Industrial Model Ms than most of us will see in a lifetime.

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Rusty beam springs in an abandoned place by Madhias
While this photo technically wasn't taken by Madhias, it was posted by him. If we can contact the original photographer we will.

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Cindy's XT and F122 haul for the MF project
You probably won't ever see more Model F keyboards in a single location. Feast your eyes upon the keyboards who donated vital parts to make the Model MF possible, and thank them for their service.

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Posted: 04 Dec 2016, 04:47
by Tesel
So many Model M's and F's. Drool...

Posted: 05 Dec 2016, 00:33
by DirtierDan
The model M is a classic that will always get my vote

Re: Best vintage keyboard or cache

Posted: 05 Dec 2016, 02:16
by Techno Trousers
Cindy's model MF haul had to be the best. All those great keyboards gave their lives for the greater good!

Posted: 05 Dec 2016, 04:02
by dlightningd
Any clues at all for where that image from Madhias was taken? That's just a tragedy.

Posted: 05 Dec 2016, 10:21
by seebart
dlightningd wrote: Any clues at all for where that image from Madhias was taken? That's just a tragedy.
PM Madhias, he might know. I'm pretty sure he posted it originally.

Posted: 05 Dec 2016, 12:33
by Chiovatto
Damn, I could be using one of these Model M/F :((
Wondering if they accept borrowing them for a bit of a time hehe

Posted: 05 Dec 2016, 16:44
by ohaimark
In alphabetical order, the two top contenders are:
Spoiler:
Photekq's throne of G81-3100SDUs
Snuci's Model M Rescue
Please remember to vote!

Posted: 05 Dec 2016, 16:47
by seebart
It's quite a close call right now! :o

VOTE ! :ugeek:

Posted: 05 Dec 2016, 21:36
by Chiovatto
Looks a paradise for vintage stuff on that Madhias post photo....

Posted: 07 Dec 2016, 07:39
by drevyek
The Beamspring graveyard is such a great photo, and such a tragedy.

Nominated Cindy for the MF haul, and insofar as helping get a project off the ground, it's been monumental for the MF buy- having switches available, for a very cheap price, lets tons of people who normally wouldn't be able to, get into capacitive buckling springs in a real way.

Posted: 09 Dec 2016, 10:13
by Shihatsu
The two Beamers are toooo tasty to not vote these beauties. Nothing beats the feeling of the beam!