24 Jan
2018
24 Jan
'18
7:05 a.m.
On 2018-01-23 11:40 PM, Ian Primus via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:35 PM, Guy Sotomayor via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Well, if it's universally held to be desirable then there's a chance of
seeing one on a secondary market. But it probably therefore also be
overpriced.
Bloody wankers. Keyboard is the least interesting part of a system, I
don't understand the fetishisation.
--T
?are the bane of my existence and should all rot
in hell.
Sorry, I just received an email from a ?keyboard enthusiast? who was looking for
various IBM 327x keyboards and wanted to know if I could help him and I needed
to vent a little.
Ugh. Don't get me started. I collect terminals. Missing keyboards is a
perennial problem, but it's gotten WAY worse in recent years. I have
two terminals here that are missing the keyboards because some
"enthusiast" bought them out from under me during an eBay transaction.
So, now I have an Infoton and an IBM 3101 here that are completely
worthless because the keyboards are missing.
And I have no hope of ever finding replacements - especially for the
IBM 3101, because that's one of the ones the keyboard jerks really
seem to love because it's the older beam spring kind.
Grr.....