This is so sad to see...
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- Location: United Kingdom
- Main keyboard: Modded IBM Model F AT
- Main mouse: Mionix Naos 8200
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Classic IBM stuff just being destroyed
Something so rare just being destroyed like that.
The sacrilege: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlRlHx1sbu0
Something so rare just being destroyed like that.
The sacrilege: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlRlHx1sbu0
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- Location: United Kingdom
- Main keyboard: Modded IBM Model F AT
- Main mouse: Mionix Naos 8200
- Favorite switch: Capacitive Buckling Springs
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Yeah at least it was just the controller but still one less IBM. As if IBM stuff wasn't rare already.
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- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Alps64 w. SKCM Brown Alps
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM/SKCL
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- Location: Arvada CO
- Main keyboard: zowie ec1
- Main mouse: Logitech m535
- Favorite switch: c^3 tangerines
this is very upsetting. however, there could be another reason that they are scraping these old pieces of tech. he could be working for some place and not have a say in what he does, but films it. or he could be scraping it for parts, to sell or for personal use.
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- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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See the comments. He is scrapping it to harvest the gold inside.
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- Location: United Kingdom
- Main keyboard: Modded IBM Model F AT
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Yeah unacceptable!!! God damnFindecanor wrote: ↑26 Dec 2019, 12:08See the comments. He is scrapping it to harvest the gold inside.
- -Space-NATO-
- Location: Buenos Aires - Argentina / Miami - USA
- Main keyboard: IBM 3278 / Leading Edge DC-3014
- Main mouse: Who cares about mouses here?
- Favorite switch: Beamspring / Blue Alps
Gold damn!Yeah unacceptable!!! God damn
- vometia
- irritant
- Location: Somewhere in England
- Main keyboard: Durrr-God with fancy keycaps
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Not going to watch the video. I've encountered people who burn stuff to get the metal out and it's extremely unpleasant for anyone else in the vicinity. It's technically illegal but nobody with the power to do anything about it really cares.
- joebeazelman
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: Model M
- Main mouse: Dell Optical
- Favorite switch: Model F
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Wow! All those big, flat and straight aluminum plates would make excellent flatstock! The dummy doesn’t realize he can get way more if he sold them on eBay. You’d think aluminum is cheap until you ever have to procure some for a machining project. The prices will have you crying.
- Scarpia
- Location: Sweden
- Main keyboard: F77 / Alps SKCM Brown TKL
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Anywhere 2
- Favorite switch: Capacitive BS, Alps SKCM Brown
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You all do realize that is what we look like to the vintage computing guys. Always cannibalizing some old keyboard for switches or keycaps, thus destroying a perfectly good vintage keyboard that could have completed some collector’s vintage system. I’m not sure we are in a great place to judge the gold guy.
- User101
- Location: South California
- Main keyboard: IBM 3278
- Main mouse: Kensington pro trackball
- Favorite switch: BeamSpring
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I 100% agreeScarpia wrote: ↑30 Dec 2019, 17:53You all do realize that is what we look like to the vintage computing guys. Always cannibalizing some old keyboard for switches or keycaps, thus destroying a perfectly good vintage keyboard that could have completed some collector’s vintage system. I’m not sure we are in a great place to judge the gold guy.
- zrrion
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: F122
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we still use the stuff though. disassembly and shredding/melting are 2 different things
- Elrick
- Location: Swan View, AUSTRALIA
- Main keyboard: Alps - As much as Possible.
- Main mouse: MX518
- Favorite switch: Navy Switch, ALPs, Model-M
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Would instead LOVE to see the complete scrapping and destruction of any Razer keyboards .Fkazim wrote: ↑29 Dec 2019, 04:02Yeah unacceptable!!! God damnFindecanor wrote: ↑26 Dec 2019, 12:08See the comments. He is scrapping it to harvest the gold inside.
That would be the most decent approach to eliminating any more worthless Junk, that goes into land Fill across this unfortunate planet.
YES, someone post something of merit and goodness on this Forum site instead of such sad desecration of ancient IBM hardware .
- vometia
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I dunno, old computing costs a fortune to run. I have an account on an actual PDP-10 somewhere and wonder how they can afford to keep it going. I'm reminded of the VaxBar guy who hollowed out a classic Vax 11/780 to turn it into something more useful, i.e. a bar. And that's from someone who loves Vaxes and considers that thing her first proper computing experience (well, a Vax 11/785, as the then Hatfield Poly owned) though as he says, the beastie had already acted as an organ donor for two other 780s so there was little left to remove.Scarpia wrote: ↑30 Dec 2019, 17:53You all do realize that is what we look like to the vintage computing guys. Always cannibalizing some old keyboard for switches or keycaps, thus destroying a perfectly good vintage keyboard that could have completed some collector’s vintage system. I’m not sure we are in a great place to judge the gold guy.
- Polecat
- Location: Downstream from Silicon Valley
- Main keyboard: Monterey K104 Industrial Gray
- Main mouse: Logitech Optical
- Favorite switch: Early Alps SKCM
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I worked at a recycling place in the '80s and '90s, and we couldn't give that stuff away. We couldn't afford to warehouse it forever, so the choices were to scrap it for a nickel a pound or to crush it down and put it in the dumpster. I didn't watch the video, but most of the guys here who break things down for scrap don't have ebay accounts or even a vehicle to bring their haul to the recycler. They're looking for their next meal (or dime bag) and living in a Maytag box or on a buddy's couch. That's the reality of the scrap biz, which is tanked right now by the way, because China no longer wants our garbage (imagine that!).