[rescue] What would you pay for a Type 5 keyboard?

[Mike Meredith]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 11:27:53 -0500, Doug McIntyre wrote:
> Oh, but you can pay $299 for a single-digit serial #.

I suspect that option is long gone.

> I think the price is affordable. I'm not overly enamored with
> buckling spring keyswitchs.

Well the buckling spring /is/ IBM's reduced cost keyboard solution :)
(plus reduced height - the beam springs were very tall). As to the
cost, it's expensive compared to a sub-$100 keyboard but it's likely to
last ten times as long. Not comparable, but my Unicomp M122 keyboard is
getting on for 10 years old and still works pretty much as well as it
ever did.

--
Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
  "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary;
   men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
               --Joseph Conrad

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