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Re: Is ebay the best place for Model M keyboards? by Quentin Beck 02/23/2007, 12:15am PST Back when the company I work for was just a small startup (mid to late 1990's), the technical team used to take lunch everyday at a cheap Mexican restaurant, after which we would go to the thrift store next door and see what computer equipment had been donated. There was a university in this town, and one day we found that they had donated an entire rolling bin of IBM model M keyboards, a mix of brand-new and used. In true clueless thrift store fashion, each keyboard, whether new or used, was priced at $.50. There were over a hundred total keyboards in the bin, of which roughly 40% were new and 60% were used. One of the founders of the company pulled a $50 out of his wallet and offered it to the cashier for the entire lot. The offer was accepted, and we loaded them into the three cars we had driven there and took them back to the office. For the next few years, any computer built for a new employee had one of those keyboards attached to it. I've still got the original one I took and now use for my home computer, plus a new replacement that I hoarded. Sometime around 2001, we were bought out by a big company, and apparently (I transferred out of state right after the buyout) the new owners ordered the remaining 75+ keyboards to be thrown in the dumpster in the parking lot. :(

Is ebay the best place for Model M keyboards? by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/22/2007, 3:33pm PST     Re: Is ebay the best place for Model M keyboards? by Entropy Stew 02/22/2007, 3:53pm PST         Re: Is ebay the best place for Model M keyboards? by Abraham Kennedy W Bush 02/22/2007, 4:15pm PST             Some more places you may know about: The Salvation Army. NT by Worm 02/22/2007, 4:22pm PST                 HAHAHA NT by yeah. 02/22/2007, 4:29pm PST                     Couldn't use that on the guy who presented a site with prices from $65 to $185? by Worm 02/22/2007, 4:39pm PST                         Did you also want an IBM model M keyboard? by I found your monocle. 02/22/2007, 4:56pm PST                             If I did I'd go to the Salvation Army. by Worm 02/22/2007, 6:28pm PST                                 I don't want any used keyboard, ever by Entropy Stew 02/22/2007, 10:39pm PST                                     They get lots of new ones. by Worm 02/23/2007, 9:26am PST                                     I'd like to thank all of you by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/23/2007, 11:04am PST         Entropy Stew is the man by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/28/2007, 10:18pm PST             Question by Mischief Maker 04/24/2007, 9:04pm PDT                 Re: Question by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/26/2007, 12:06am PDT     Re: Is ebay the best place for Model M keyboards? by Quentin Beck 02/23/2007, 12:15am PST