IBM Bezelmaster

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Weezer

06 Jul 2022, 16:33

IBM

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sharktastica

06 Jul 2022, 16:39

IBM

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Bjerrk

06 Jul 2022, 16:43

IBM

UnscrambledEggs

06 Jul 2022, 16:43

IBM

zippolupan

06 Jul 2022, 16:45

IBM

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depletedvespene

06 Jul 2022, 16:53

IBM

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XR6

06 Jul 2022, 17:09

IBM

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soyuz

06 Jul 2022, 17:12

International Business Machines

headphone_jack

06 Jul 2022, 17:16

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

kelvinhall05

06 Jul 2022, 17:17

headphone_jack wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 17:16
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
icbm

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doomsday_device

06 Jul 2022, 17:21

ball

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Weezer

06 Jul 2022, 17:40

The Bezelmaster lives! The most amazing and rare Model F of them all. Tremble in fear peasant scum.
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depletedvespene

06 Jul 2022, 17:50

Clean it up and get it adapted so it can be plugged to a computer. A keyboard doesn't "live" until you declare so in DT by typing that message on the keyboard itself.

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doomsday_device

06 Jul 2022, 17:53

very lickable

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Weezer

06 Jul 2022, 18:04

depletedvespene wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 17:50
Clean it up and get it adapted so it can be plugged to a computer. A keyboard doesn't "live" until you declare so in DT by typing that message on the keyboard itself.
And how do you know I'm not? :o ;) :lol:

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depletedvespene

06 Jul 2022, 18:05

Weezer wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 18:04
depletedvespene wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 17:50
Clean it up and get it adapted so it can be plugged to a computer. A keyboard doesn't "live" until you declare so in DT by typing that message on the keyboard itself.
And how do you know I'm not? :o ;) :lol:
You didn't say so.

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Weezer

06 Jul 2022, 18:06

doomsday_device wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 17:53
very lickable
A dog actually peed on this keyboard. The smell is unconscionable.

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Weezer

06 Jul 2022, 18:07

depletedvespene wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 18:05
Weezer wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 18:04
depletedvespene wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 17:50
Clean it up and get it adapted so it can be plugged to a computer. A keyboard doesn't "live" until you declare so in DT by typing that message on the keyboard itself.
And how do you know I'm not? :o ;) :lol:
You didn't say so.
*clacking intensifies*

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depletedvespene

06 Jul 2022, 18:15

Weezer wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 18:06
doomsday_device wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 17:53
very lickable
A dog actually peed on this keyboard. The smell is unconscionable.
Anosmics won't care about that. :mrgreen:

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Weezer

06 Jul 2022, 18:16

So anyway, this is the Bezelmaster. It's from the Datamaster floor mounted model (5324). It is NOT a bigfoot. I found this just as freak coincidence yesterday and drove 2 hours to get it. I've never seen one before outside of grainy shots from the 2000's. There are actually TWO PCBs inside this guy. For god knows what reason, instead of putting the components they wanted on the PCB, they just decided to adapt the output for the Datamaster after the scan codes were already generated on the first PCB. IBM, IBMing at its finest.
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Muirium
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06 Jul 2022, 18:17

Bigger than a Bigfoot? And they still couldn’t space out the numpad, even a bit? :roll:

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depletedvespene

06 Jul 2022, 18:19

This screams for a picture of the bezelmaster and the bigfoot together (above and below, not side by side).

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Weezer

06 Jul 2022, 18:21

Muirium wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 18:17
Bigger than a Bigfoot? And they still couldn’t space out the numpad, even a bit? :roll:
Please, that would ruin the aesthetic. How else could they justify placing the num pad zero in between enter and 1?

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Weezer

06 Jul 2022, 18:27

depletedvespene wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 18:19
This screams for a picture of the bezelmaster and the bigfoot together (above and below, not side by side).
Why the specific orientation?

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depletedvespene

06 Jul 2022, 18:28

Weezer wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 18:27
depletedvespene wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 18:19
This screams for a picture of the bezelmaster and the bigfoot together (above and below, not side by side).
Why the specific orientation?
Because side by side would be too wide of a picture.

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Muirium
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06 Jul 2022, 18:30

I’m sure there was a pic Webwit would post whenever he had the chance, of a Bigfoot straddling an HHKB. Can’t quite find it, but.

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Weezer

06 Jul 2022, 18:33

Since there is almost no info about the Bezelmaster, this thread will serve as a restoration log and a place to relay part numbers, dates etc. I took those pictures last night at 1am, and there will be better ones to follow...eventually.

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Weezer

06 Jul 2022, 18:34

Muirium wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 18:30
I’m sure there was a pic Webwit would post whenever he had the chance, of a Bigfoot straddling an HHKB. Can’t quite find it, but.

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See look at that small Bezel. They had to compensate with the tri-foot because of it.

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Muirium
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06 Jul 2022, 18:34

Small bezel? You size queen! :lol:

Here’s the pic I remember:

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Weezer

06 Jul 2022, 18:48

Muirium wrote:
06 Jul 2022, 18:34
Small bezel? You size queen! :lol:

Here’s the pic I remember:

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viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8956&p=189696&hilit=Bigfoot#p189696
All I'm saying is if your bezels are small, something else must be small.

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