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y11971alex wrote: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-rare-IBM ... SwLEtYf7gI

DisplayWriter with Model F and 8" floppy disc drive

They fucked up the fish key ... it's missing the tail.

Haha that's some photoshop job Slom! Brilliant. On another note I need to remove those ugly stickers on my keycaps.

What does the "Such" key do? :p

y11971alex wrote: What does the "Such" key do? :p

It exec a sear of cour.

y11971alex wrote: What does the "Such" key do? :p

It let's you use "such" a keyboard!

What about the "Zu" key?

y11971alex wrote: What about the "Zu" key?

I think I've read somewhere in a manual that these old machines still had a dedicated key on the keyboard to close the DVD drive.

Slom wrote:

y11971alex wrote: What about the "Zu" key?

I think I've read somewhere in a manual that these old machines still had a dedicated key on the keyboard to close the DVD drive.

Spoiler:

It is not, as one might assume initially, the key to close the current window. These machines of course did not have windows as an operating system back then

There were no DVD drives back then rather floppy drives. The whole system was more of a word-processor.

seebart wrote:

Slom wrote:

y11971alex wrote: What about the "Zu" key?

I think I've read somewhere in a manual that these old machines still had a dedicated key on the keyboard to close the DVD drive.

Spoiler:

It is not, as one might assume initially, the key to close the current window. These machines of course did not have windows as an operating system back then

There were no DVD drives back then rather floppy drives. The whole system was more of a word-processor.

No, I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that Swedish scientists discovered that the Germans allready had DVD in the 1940s

Slom wrote: I'm pretty sure that I somewhere that Swedish scientists discovered that the Germans allready had DVD in the 1940s

You mean Data storage devices in general right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_storage_device

The DVD format was invented in the 1990's:

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital versatile disc"[4][5] or "digital video disc"[6]) is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995

- Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD

Slom wrote:
No, I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that Swedish scientists discovered that the Germans allready had DVD in the 1940s

They did have optical disks in the late 30's:

https://120years.net/the-welte-licht-to ... rmany1936/

Right, but not DVD's or even CD's in the 40's. Anyway I know that's what Slom meant. Various data storage devices are very old.

Now Laserdisc, that was a format.

That's why I find communicating online challenging at times ... I fuck up even the simplest jokes :/
I thought the Swedish scientists were a dead giveaway.

E TwentyNine wrote:

Slom wrote: They did have optical disks in the late 30's:
https://120years.net/the-welte-licht-to ... rmany1936/

Lesson learned: never underestimate those pesky germans . Next time I'll make it 1840 just to be sure.

y11971alex wrote: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-rare-IBM ... SwLEtYf7gI

DisplayWriter with Model F and 8" floppy disc drive

Hey let's snipe this thing and go halfsies on the shipping to Canada. You know what, Snuci, where are you? Let's split this 3 ways and rotate the system every month around Toronto lol.

Man what a pretty computer. I wish they still made them like this - Maybe I can find a mod to include this specific computer in Fallout 4. It would fit in perfectly.

Slom wrote: That's why I find communicating online challenging at times ... I fuck up even the simplest jokes :/
I thought the Swedish scientists were a dead giveaway.

I got your joke bro, don't worry I also like the fish tail - nice photoshop skillz.

Harshmallow wrote:

y11971alex wrote: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-rare-IBM ... SwLEtYf7gI

DisplayWriter with Model F and 8" floppy disc drive

Hey let's snipe this thing and go halfsies on the shipping to Canada. You know what, Snuci, where are you? Let's split this 3 ways and rotate the system every month around Toronto lol.

Man what a pretty computer. I wish they still made them like this - Maybe I can find a mod to include this specific computer in Fallout 4. It would fit in perfectly.

I was actually hoping to make this a donation to YouTube tech reviewers like the 8-bit Guy or Lazy Game Reviews, if the price wouldn't go out of control. Because, to be fair, we're only interested in the keyboard, and to chuck the system seems like a total waste. Those guys into vintage computer systems would fare much better and perhaps produce one or two entertaining reviews on this system.

y11971alex wrote: I was actually hoping to make this a donation to YouTube tech reviewers like the 8-bit Guy or Lazy Game Reviews, if the price wouldn't go out of control. Because, to be fair, we're only interested in the keyboard, and to chuck the system seems like a total waste. Those guys into vintage computer systems would fare much better and perhaps produce one or two entertaining reviews on this system.

That's a great idea! I was kidding around, but with respect to the computer - I would never split those up. In certain instances, such as this, I would actually be interested in the whole package. Which I would probably set up in my guest room as a vintage computer station for fun once in a while. Before that would be the obligatory photo session, write-up and review. I just love those curves...all of that Art Deco and 50's to 70's styling is so eye catching to me. I've always been a computer nerd before a keyboard geek. This whole mechanical keyboard obsession really only took off for me last summer.

I love LGR's channel, he really has a lot of respect for just about any vintage gaming, computer and general 'oddware' (in his terms).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Omnikey-Ultra-T ... Sw5cNYioue

really nice looking omnikey ultra! Offers enabled as well.

If only i wasn't so broke this month, i'll go for this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Model-M-Cli ... 2390125557

SAD for 60€ ... and you get a free computer (pentium 1 *and* Matrox Millenium 2 *and* Soundblaster 128 !!!) and some games and a mouse
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Vintage-Retro-PC ... 2435522878

Apple III
http://www.ebay.de/itm/APPLE-III-/302206788728

this looks nice ...
http://www.ebay.de/itm/NCR-Decision-Mat ... 2104119199

Harshmallow wrote:

Slom wrote: That's why I find communicating online challenging at times ... I fuck up even the simplest jokes :/
I thought the Swedish scientists were a dead giveaway.

I got your joke bro, don't worry I also like the fish tail - nice photoshop skillz.

You need to work on your jokes Slom, seriously. Make it easy on yourself and use memes like me. But the fish tail was good...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-LEXMARK ... SwopRYiq~c

M15 Hype.

Ail wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-LEXMARK ... SwopRYiq~c

M15 Hype.

Includes numpad!

Ail wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-LEXMARK ... SwopRYiq~c

M15 Hype.

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Quite the hype.

Might be interesting to some? Cherry G80-12001. http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-Tastatur- ... 2088345401
At first I thought "That typo's a bit too convenient"...

Slom wrote: SAD for 60€ ... and you get a free computer (pentium 1 *and* Matrox Millenium 2 *and* Soundblaster 128 !!!) and some games and a mouse
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Vintage-Retro-PC ... 2435522878

Now for the same price wo/ the keyboard
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Vintage-Retro-PC ... 2436258045

A pentium from 1840 slom? Upgrading you system with optical storage also?

seebart wrote: A pentium from 1840 slom? Upgrading you system with optical storage also?

Nah, I'd bet on zip drives