23 Jan
2018
23 Jan
'18
1:53 p.m.
From: Chuck Guzis
Really, is this any worse than the gold bugs scrapping
whole systems
for the prospective precious metal content?
Well, the latter are presumably in it as a business, whereas it seems these
people do it for 'fun'.
Now there's an idea: perhaps we could convince them that pulling the wings
off flies is a more entertaining hobby?
Noel
23 Jan
23 Jan
1:58 p.m.
Well, the latter are presumably in it as a business, whereas it seems these
people do it for 'fun'.
Now there's an idea: perhaps we could convince them that pulling the wings
off flies is a more entertaining hobby?
Noel
Did anyone attend VCF South East this past year, there was a large table
run by a keyboard vendor. Just keyboards, laid out like tusks from poached
elephants.
b
2:01 p.m.
I too have always enjoyed the analogy to ivory poachers.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:58 AM, william degnan via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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Well, the latter are presumably in it as a business, whereas it seems
these
people do it for 'fun'.
Now there's an idea: perhaps we could convince them that pulling the
wings
off flies is a more entertaining hobby?
Noel
Did anyone attend VCF South East this past year, there was a large table
run by a keyboard vendor. Just keyboards, laid out like tusks from poached
elephants.
b
7:17 p.m.
Al said:
On 1/23/18 11:01 AM, Ian Finder via cctalk wrote:
Sometimes this has a good outcome: a couple of years ago I acquired a slimline 11/10 with
a
home-made front switch panel, the original presumably souvenired in the distant past.
When it arrived, I realised it was an early production model with the cast Mazak lower
bezel
without the air slots. This is the version shown in the 11/05 handbook photographs.
Last December an early 11/10 console with the unpainted cast DIGITAL logo and lower black
trim stripe under the switches appeared on the usual auction site, so I was very keen to
acquire it, which I managed to, and after finding some of the correct # screws and star
washers
it's now with the rest of the machine.
It's a nice feeling to get a console back onto the rest of the computer and even nicer
to have
the chronologically correct one as well.
The advesive tape holding the plastic nomenclature strip on had perished, and on the
reverse side
of the strip is written in pencil '2-73' which would match the era.
Steve.
I too have always enjoyed the analogy to ivory
poachers.
Those are computer front panel collectors. 
7:13 p.m.
When ?out and ?about when I saw a keyboard with some unworldly number of ?function keys
?on it ( I recall?one ?with 3 ?rows of them... and other oddities?) I ? got and stashed
them.... now ?to find them.. ?
?
?We are stating a ?move to ?convert ?boxed?of??weird ?odds?and ends ?stuff ( in the
computer ?area, ?general science area, teletype area and radio area) ?to ?$$$ ? for
?re-roofing ?buildings... and completing half ?completed ?groups of things into
?finished??displays.... all this ?stuff is ? fun and neat ?but ?time??to focus ?some ?I
think...
?
?
what is the ?market ?on odd keyboards??
?
?
thx ?Ed# www.smecc.org?
?
In a message dated 1/23/2018 3:23:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at
classiccmp.org writes:
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:58 PM, william degnan via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Did anyone attend VCF South East this past year, there
was a large table
run by a keyboard vendor. Just keyboards, laid out like tusks from poached
elephants.
Lol! I love it.
6:49 p.m.
On 1/23/18 10:53 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
it seems these
people do it for 'fun'.
As an experiment I put a couple of obscure mechanical keyboards up on eBay,
like Tektronix reed switch APL ones and NOS Kaypros
with a high price but a 'make offer' and have gotten zero interest in them.
They also do stupid sh*t like minutia details on the 9816 keyboard but then
don't write down the actual HP part number for it.
https://deskthority.net/wiki/HP_9816
6:54 p.m.
On 2018-01-23 7:49 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 1/23/18 10:53 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
Nice ...."Volume adjuster for beeper on left"? and on bottom view
"bulky
beeper on the top right"
Paul.
it seems these
people do it for 'fun'.
As an experiment I put a couple of obscure
mechanical keyboards up on eBay,
like Tektronix reed switch APL ones and NOS Kaypros
with a high price but a 'make offer' and have gotten zero interest in them.
They also do stupid sh*t like minutia details on the 9816 keyboard but then
don't write down the actual HP part number for it.
https://deskthority.net/wiki/HP_9816
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