Posted: 11 Aug 2013, 01:07
Thxguilleguillaume wrote:A UK member should get this one quickly G81-1800HAG
There were 2 left a week ago but only one now.
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Re: Great/Interesting Finds (GH has one why not us!?!?!)
Posted: 11 Aug 2013, 13:10
Posted: 11 Aug 2013, 13:37
Crappy picture, but it looks like 2 black Dell at102w's ...
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Elektroschrott-C ... 53fc609b89
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Elektroschrott-C ... 53fc609b89
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 00:03
Who got this nice old little lady?
http://www.ebay.de/itm/390636968907?ssP ... 1423.l2649
Someone from here? I'd like to know what switch it is (and what protocol)...
http://www.ebay.de/itm/390636968907?ssP ... 1423.l2649
Someone from here? I'd like to know what switch it is (and what protocol)...
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 07:32
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-G81-8308- ... 3a83bb039e
Yes, I know it is LPADE. But the caps look like doubleshot.
Yes, I know it is LPADE. But the caps look like doubleshot.
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 10:25
Would also like to know whats under the hood....hope someone from here got it. The keys already looking amazing.Halvar wrote:Who got this nice old little lady?
http://www.ebay.de/itm/390636968907?ssP ... 1423.l2649
Someone from here? I'd like to know what switch it is (and what protocol)...
Also funny, how someone tried to snipe it.....tried!
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 11:32
As I understand the description, keyboard has been modified with MX Blacks and Doubleshots ..tinlong117 wrote:http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-G81-8308- ... 3a83bb039e
Yes, I know it is LPADE. But the caps look like doubleshot.
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 11:37
According to the text, they are doubleshots, and the board was modified to use MX switches.tinlong117 wrote:http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-G81-8308- ... 3a83bb039e
Yes, I know it is LPADE. But the caps look like doubleshot.
EDIT: Peter ninja'd me...
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 11:38
Damn, I should learn more German...
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 11:43
The description doesn't mention the MX type, but anything but MX Black would be a surprise...
Actually, it says that the modification was done by Cherry, but I'm not sure if I believe that.
Actually, it says that the modification was done by Cherry, but I'm not sure if I believe that.
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 11:46
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-G81-8308- ... 7675.l2557
I believe his word because this. ^
Same seller, same board. And he used to sell lots of 8308.
I believe his word because this. ^
Same seller, same board. And he used to sell lots of 8308.
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 12:59
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 13:09
No computer is complete without CENTRONICS port!
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 13:17
Asked him already if he would sell the keyboards alone.....but he refused and wants to sell only complete set.
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 13:35
He seems delusional anyway -- 299 €?BimboBB wrote:Asked him already if he would sell the keyboards alone.....but he refused and wants to sell only complete set.
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 14:10
http://www.ebay.it/itm/KEYBOARD-COMMODO ... fresh=trueHalvar wrote:He seems delusional anyway -- 299 €?BimboBB wrote:Asked him already if he would sell the keyboards alone.....but he refused and wants to sell only complete set.
BANG!
pm me if you want this. I'm still not sure do I want it or not.
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 14:17
Sure, where else would I plug in my first MP3 player?Muirium wrote:No computer is complete without CENTRONICS port!
Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 14:23
I am not sure if he actually sells "four" complete sets or only "one"...in the description it says 4xcomplete set. At least that would make the pricetag a little bit more reasonable.Halvar wrote: He seems delusional anyway -- 299 €?
no DEtinlong117 wrote: http://www.ebay.it/itm/KEYBOARD-COMMODO ... fresh=true
BANG!
pm me if you want this. I'm still not sure do I want it or not.
Posted: 13 Aug 2013, 17:39
Posted: 13 Aug 2013, 18:04
OMFG !!!!!!!!
Did you ask him for a price on only the keyboard (-switches) ??
That's 2.5 months rent !!Price:
US $1,075.00
Approximately DKK 6,032.38
Posted: 13 Aug 2013, 18:08
It's from recycledgoods.com (CLICK ME). I doubt they will sell the keyboard separately.
Posted: 13 Aug 2013, 18:30
A rather more palatable $90 for this very similar model. It was $80 before he relisted it. Anyone have friends in Canada?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-Honeywe ... 33844d4c3c
I can vouch that it's a fantastic set of caps on these Honeywells, truly unlike anything else outside the world of Hall effect keyboards. And the switches aren't bad either. Just a shame there's no converter or custom controller for these guys yet.
http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... t6296.html
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-Honeywe ... 33844d4c3c
I can vouch that it's a fantastic set of caps on these Honeywells, truly unlike anything else outside the world of Hall effect keyboards. And the switches aren't bad either. Just a shame there's no converter or custom controller for these guys yet.
http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... t6296.html
Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 17:40
Can't speak for the price, but I love the look of this classic IBM typewriter:
That's one hell of a keyboard! Square section sphericals?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281147978951? ... 1423.l2649
Wikipedia says this line was the first IBM to support proportional width characters – what you're looking at now instead of monospace – and in fact the first in the world:
That's one hell of a keyboard! Square section sphericals?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281147978951? ... 1423.l2649
Wikipedia says this line was the first IBM to support proportional width characters – what you're looking at now instead of monospace – and in fact the first in the world:
Now I get the second space bar. It's all about fine control over text width and spacing.In 1944, IBM launched the Executive, a proportionally spaced typewriter. Characters on the Executive typewriter occupied between two and five units per grid cell, depending on the width of the letter. Beeching relates an anecdote that demonstrates the significance of this achievement. The proportionally spaced typewriter immediately leaped to the apex of the world bureaucracy and administrative culture when President Roosevelt was presented with the first machine off the line. The Armistice documents that ended World War Two were typed on an IBM, as was the original United Nations Charter. To a world accustomed to monospaced typewritten documents, a page of typewriting produced with an Executive...was indistinguishable from a page of typeset text. Prime Minister Churchill allegedly responded to Roosevelt that "although he realized their correspondence was very important, there was absolutely no need to have it printed.
Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 17:49
double spacebar apparently
Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 18:45
Wow, even having grown up with typewriters I didn't know there even were proportional mechanical ones. And already in the forties! I wonder why this didn't catch on at all.
I remember well what a big deal it was for us in the end-1980s to be able to print our student newspaper in proportional letters, justified right margin and good quality (which meant better than screen hardcopy resolution) thanks to the wonder of MS Word for DOS and a Laser printer at work at one of my friend's father... Because every and all mechanical typewriters I have used and seen all used monospace fonts. There were electrical typewriters which could do that, but I never had access to one of those at that time.
I remember well what a big deal it was for us in the end-1980s to be able to print our student newspaper in proportional letters, justified right margin and good quality (which meant better than screen hardcopy resolution) thanks to the wonder of MS Word for DOS and a Laser printer at work at one of my friend's father... Because every and all mechanical typewriters I have used and seen all used monospace fonts. There were electrical typewriters which could do that, but I never had access to one of those at that time.
Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 18:51
The Executive was one of those electric typewriters; the first in fact with the feature. This one looks so retro it's hard to believe it is electric — or that they existed for sale at all way back in the 1940s — but Executive = fancy pants electric. The usual pants Electric was called the Standard.
(Not that I knew any of this until today, but Internet!)
(Not that I knew any of this until today, but Internet!)
Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 18:59
That IBM typewriter has keys like the 60's/70's UNIVAC keyboards, blocky with spacing around keys:
Strange how that style has come back (though flatter) with keyboards like the Apple chicklet and most newer notebook keyboards.
Strange how that style has come back (though flatter) with keyboards like the Apple chicklet and most newer notebook keyboards.
Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 19:19
Deep dish for the whole of home row, I like it.
Tight packed keys are more my thing, and these typewriters miss all the good stuff to either side of space bar, which puts me off dreaming about converting them… quite how that would ever work.
But yeah, getting nostalgic for a time and place I never was. Hmm.
Tight packed keys are more my thing, and these typewriters miss all the good stuff to either side of space bar, which puts me off dreaming about converting them… quite how that would ever work.
But yeah, getting nostalgic for a time and place I never was. Hmm.
Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 20:49
Same here. I never liked that UNIVAC style.Muirium wrote:Tight packed keys are more my thing
Oooh! That's within driving distance. I badly wanted those keycaps (...enough to murder) but I'd feel bad about buying the whole terminal just to strip off a few keycaps. Many of the keys are shiny too. If I needed another huge green-screen terminal, I'd probably go for it - but there are only so many huge green-screen terminals a person needs.Muirium wrote:A rather more palatable $90 for this very similar model. It was $80 before he relisted it. Anyone have friends in Canada?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-Honeywe ... 33844d4c3c
Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 23:05
Oh, silly me, I didn't realise you were Canadian! Well, you've no excuse then. Get in that car and rescue the Honeywell before it's lost from Her Majesty's Dominion!
What's this about using the caps elsewhere, anyway? Show us your hall effects already.
What's this about using the caps elsewhere, anyway? Show us your hall effects already.