Dyesub sucks: the story of an innocent F122
Posted: 02 Dec 2018, 20:57
Clickbait title so let's go straight into the topic: recently got lucky with a Model F122 on ebay and after some struggles it finally arrived at my place. Sad picture of the unpack event:
Apparently this wasn't a shipping damage but the seller only had a picture from the top so this damage was barely visible and it looked like some bad lens issue. Thankfully only plastic parts are damaged and the metal internals are in good condition. So let's get into pictures of the board itself:
This seems to be the old French Swiss layout, a layout that's long forgotton and that I've personallynever seen before. The following pictures are some closeups of IBM dyesub caps being shiny like ABS caps and faded like bad pad printing Also there is a lot of shine on the case as well. There are several spots where there is no texture left at all. And obviously IBM dyesub doesn't suck, this board was just abused more than I've ever seen before
Apparently this wasn't a shipping damage but the seller only had a picture from the top so this damage was barely visible and it looked like some bad lens issue. Thankfully only plastic parts are damaged and the metal internals are in good condition. So let's get into pictures of the board itself:
This seems to be the old French Swiss layout, a layout that's long forgotton and that I've personallynever seen before. The following pictures are some closeups of IBM dyesub caps being shiny like ABS caps and faded like bad pad printing Also there is a lot of shine on the case as well. There are several spots where there is no texture left at all. And obviously IBM dyesub doesn't suck, this board was just abused more than I've ever seen before