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| RATS! Missed out on another Prototype (KBD) . . . | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2011-03-25 20:41:30 . . .  But this time there were only two other snipers, it's too bad they've both got bigger toy budgets than I do. 🙁 Prototype: Platinum ADB Keyboard for IIgs? :'( | |
| Posted by: jsarchibald on 2011-03-25 23:59:42 There was still 6 seconds left to go on that auction after the last bid. I would have waited until 3 to snipe that one. It's how I roll, baby! | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2011-03-26 15:44:56 I do that too, as a matter of course, but I had to be at work and my offer wouldn't have won it anyway . . . :-/ I'll just get out my Paladin ProtoKBD/TrackBall and play with it for a wile to soothe my ProtoMac withdrawal complications . . . 😱) | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2011-05-15 12:20:37 i used to have one of those keyboards, long long ago. never knew it was a prototype. | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2011-05-15 14:30:21 Which one did you have, the Auction ADB ProtoKBD or the KBD/TrackBall Prototype from the ill-fated Paladin Project? :?: | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2011-05-15 18:05:37 didnt have the trackball. but i remember getting a keyboard identical to that one in a boxload of computer parts back when i was 14, i remember there being that keyboard, various other keyboards, and a couple apple IIGS systems. picked them up when i volunteered at the local, now defunct, FCG (Full Circle Group). computer reuse and recycler. Unfortunately, all that stuff is long since gone. Before the e-waste laws were put into effect, a couple of guys dumped at least 30 or 40 mac classics and classic IIs in the dumpster out back right around the same time period i got that box of stuff. Unfortunately i lost interest in the old macs by then as i played with them enough and got a better mac, so i never saved any. Now my nostalgia fever has set in, and i wished i would have. but yea, its in the past now.... CCC (Cincinnati Computer Curriculum) had reformed out of the old remains of FCG, and was/is operating out of the same building. I went back after the reformation, management and all the rules had changed, and they treat volunteers as they are paid workers in a communistic government. So i ended up getting kicked out. I accidently dropped a printer when ordered to unload pallets of computer equipment off of a boxtruck. Got my ass chewed out over it, so i chewed his ass right back, including picking up the printer and hurling it at the guy. (yes, i had anger management issues) I miss the old FCG, they respected you as a volunteer, and were much more laid back. As long as things got done as they should. I still have my old NEC Accusync 75F flat CRT i got from when FCG was still in operation. it still works. although the VGA cable is flakey. | |
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