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@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> …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.
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 > > Grr..... >