Selling keyboards without the terminal

[Warner Losh]

I'm surprised there aren't a boatload of arduino projects to create a PC
keyboard to each of the classics...

Warner

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 6:00 PM Ian Primus via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> Ugh - this is super frustrating to see. Especially since I have a 3101
> here with no keyboard. And the reason *why* it has no keyboard? It got
> bought out from under me. I bought this terminal, complete, on eBay.
> It arrives... with no keyboard. I complained to the seller, he
> refunded all my money and just said, basically "Sorry, someone gave me
> a whole lot of money for the keyboard alone, you can keep the
> terminal".... Great. So, now I have a useless terminal on my shelf
> waiting for me to get extremely lucky and find the missing keyboard.
>
> What's even worse is this wasn't even the first time this happened to
> me. I have an Infoton here that's missing it's keyboard for the exact
> same reason.
>
> Collecting computer terminals has gotten horribly frustrating, and
> really, these keyboard scalpers have sucked a lot of the fun out of
> the hobby for me.
>
> -Ian
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:34 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > Here is a great example of why the keyboards and terminals are getting
> > separated
> >
> >
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-3101-beam-spring-keyboard-purchased-new-in-1982/123422383512?hash=item1cbc8c1d98:g:sCkAAOSwfbhbwQvU
> >
> > Note the price $2000 so far.  How could one blame the seller.  I wonder
> if
> > this is the terminal I sold to a buyer in California years ago when I
> sold
> > my Series/1 computer.  All he wanted was the terminal, I donated the rest
> > to what was the MARCH museum.  At the time I remember having a few words
> > with the buyer who would not also take the Series/1 system (2 racks) or
> the
> > manuals.
> >
> > There is a naked terminal up for grabs if you're out his way.
> >
> > Bill
>