IBM Beam Spring listing / registration
- darkcruix
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Brand New Model F F77 Keyboard
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Master
- Favorite switch: Ellipse version of Buckling Spring / BeamSpring
- DT Pro Member: 0209
I would love to understand how many IBM Beam Spring keyboards are still in use (at least for those who also are part of this forum). I wonder, if there are other people out there who would be interested.
Mine is a 3278 full size with the following code:
1645101
EC317626A
192078
Mine is a 3278 full size with the following code:
1645101
EC317626A
192078
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
I’ve gotten hands on and personal with three beamsprings.
One of them belongs to me. I have a 3276 thanks to Cindy with Xwhatsit controller and solenoid, here in Scotland. Can’t seem to find any pictures of it on DT however (going to file a bug!)
I also had a German layout 3276, which I sold to Seebart a few years ago. There’s some pics on DT of it as well, if I can find them.
Here’s another local one:
That great white Displaywriter is in Scotland, too. Belongs to a museum, who had no idea what it was.
I can open mine up and get you label details if you like. Don’t think it was particularly expressive in there. I don’t know its birthdate or even year, for instance. Maybe as old as me, but maybe not.
One of them belongs to me. I have a 3276 thanks to Cindy with Xwhatsit controller and solenoid, here in Scotland. Can’t seem to find any pictures of it on DT however (going to file a bug!)
I also had a German layout 3276, which I sold to Seebart a few years ago. There’s some pics on DT of it as well, if I can find them.
Here’s another local one:
That great white Displaywriter is in Scotland, too. Belongs to a museum, who had no idea what it was.
I can open mine up and get you label details if you like. Don’t think it was particularly expressive in there. I don’t know its birthdate or even year, for instance. Maybe as old as me, but maybe not.
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- Location: UK
- Main keyboard: Filco ZERO green alps, Model F 122 Terminal
- Main mouse: Ducky Secret / Roller Mouse Pro 1
- Favorite switch: MX Mount Topre / Model F Buckling
- DT Pro Member: 0167
I would guess that number on the right is the date ? But that does not make sense for US dates , in the rest of the world where normal people live i would think that was 19th Feb 1978?
I have made a google doc and added this one , will do mine when i get home
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0
EDIT
Please keep the data source field consistent. Makes managing data much simple.
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I have made a google doc and added this one , will do mine when i get home
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0
EDIT
Please keep the data source field consistent. Makes managing data much simple.
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GH Post
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- AJM
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Vortex ViBE (with Silent Inks)
- Main mouse: steelseries Sensei RAW
- Favorite switch: Silent Ink
- DT Pro Member: 0231
The numbers on my 5251 look very different:
(I took the stickers off, before cleaning everything. Then forgot to put them back on. )
But there's a clear date on the case:
(I took the stickers off, before cleaning everything. Then forgot to put them back on. )
But there's a clear date on the case:
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Ooh, lucky you!
What’s your recipe for clean sticker removal? I’m atrocious at peeling.
@Andy: Can we keep Google out of this? How about posting the info in this thread, which can then all end up in the wiki where it belongs?
What’s your recipe for clean sticker removal? I’m atrocious at peeling.
@Andy: Can we keep Google out of this? How about posting the info in this thread, which can then all end up in the wiki where it belongs?
- JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0194
- Contact:
Beamspring part number, license, registration, and proof of insurance should be required
- AJM
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Vortex ViBE (with Silent Inks)
- Main mouse: steelseries Sensei RAW
- Favorite switch: Silent Ink
- DT Pro Member: 0231
Oh, they nearly fell off by themselves, after being threatened by a hint of moisture.
(And it was a wise decision by them. Because they wouldn't have looked good after I was finished with cleaning off the old foam from that part, which turned into the most annoying and disgusting cleaning job, I've ever done. )
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- Main keyboard: membrane
- Main mouse: logic mx master 2s
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
- darkcruix
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Brand New Model F F77 Keyboard
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Master
- Favorite switch: Ellipse version of Buckling Spring / BeamSpring
- DT Pro Member: 0209
Can you post pictures of the 5251 Bigfoot? I am really interested in all the variants (and how many are still in use).
- JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0194
- Contact:
This is probably a good thread to help you in your quest.
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=8788&hilit=post+your+beamspring
Also here is a crappy photo of mine.
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=8788&hilit=post+your+beamspring
Also here is a crappy photo of mine.
Spoiler:
- darkcruix
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Brand New Model F F77 Keyboard
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Master
- Favorite switch: Ellipse version of Buckling Spring / BeamSpring
- DT Pro Member: 0209
Thanks a mil for sharing - no idea, why I haven't seen the thread before!JP! wrote: ↑13 Feb 2019, 14:38This is probably a good thread to help you in your quest.
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=8788&hilit=post+your+beamspring
Also here is a crappy photo of mine.Spoiler:
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
That’s forums. Content is fundamentally time sorted, so sleepy threads go into permanent hibernation. There’s very few truly evergreen ones, and I mean the kind of evergreen that is regular new posts and routine visibility as a result. Great Finds and the Alps photos thread come to mind, and that one about how everyone’s wrong at music!
As much as I personally prefer the forum thread format, this kind of thing is where wikis shine. Indexed content, for reference and long term addition. Just not conversation and personality, which keeps my visits few and brief.
As much as I personally prefer the forum thread format, this kind of thing is where wikis shine. Indexed content, for reference and long term addition. Just not conversation and personality, which keeps my visits few and brief.
- Bass
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: IBM Model F104 "Unsaver"
- Main mouse: Logitech G9x
- Favorite switch: Beamspring / Capacitive Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0206
I see you are now the third person on here who has managed to find a 4978, nice work! You wouldn't happen to be willing to trade it for anything I might still have in my own collection would you?JP! wrote: ↑13 Feb 2019, 14:38This is probably a good thread to help you in your quest.
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=8788&hilit=post+your+beamspring
Also here is a crappy photo of mine.Spoiler:
Hah! As a matter of fact I have recently sold off most of the beamers I have been hoarding over this past year for this very purpose. But sadly as high as beamspring prices might seem, housing prices in my area are far more absurd still. It certainly helps but the amount I have earned selling most of mine still doesn't fully cover the down payment!
These are what I still have left. First of course is my ever so trusty 3278, the very first beamspring I have ever found: If I could only keep one this would most likely be it:
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- AJM
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Vortex ViBE (with Silent Inks)
- Main mouse: steelseries Sensei RAW
- Favorite switch: Silent Ink
- DT Pro Member: 0231
Very nice. Do you have some more pictures of the case? That's not the usual 5251 case, that I know.
(And I just saw, that there's no picture of an 5251 in the Wiki at all! I'll try to change that.)
(And I just saw, that there's no picture of an 5251 in the Wiki at all! I'll try to change that.)
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- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Ford
- Main mouse: HP
- Favorite switch: 4978
I have an IBM Series I system which I purchased in 1978. I added to it up until the mid 1980s. I have 4978, 4979, 3101, and 3151 terminals which I purchased new. Recently I was looking through stuff on my shelf and I found a NIB 3101 that I did not remember that I had.