Vintage can go 2 ways imo: you're either hunting for the boards as boards (the IBM stuff is in this category), or you're hunting for the boards as parts ( _most_ Alps stuff is in this category) with hunting boards, you're getting these blocks of matter that is empowering, these machines that were made when standards and budget were higher, they have their own thing going for them with hunting parts, you're getting parts that are exotic and truly rare, these parts can lift a custom build's status to more than "just a custom" because it's shown that the person has invested something massive to complete it, time or money (this will take a lot of thinking to make it complete, since -- for like a capset -- you'd need multiple, rare capsets just to make a _usable_ one) because of these hunts, it is illogical to teach somebody else to hunt, since they'd seep your chances of getting the boards you want, so you'd have to do your own research
for germans, hunting for cherry og keycaps is a big thing, as norde kits are unbelievable expensive if you can find a cherry g80-3000 with doubleshots, you basically get gmk quality for a cheap buck even with a norde kit gb prices for gmk base + norde are much higher than that, so yeah. worth.
While I wouldn't recommend to anyone to get into vintage boards I'm still ride or die for them! Just such an awesome feeling to get an old board in great shape or get one in not so great shape but be able to use some things out of it for a modern build! Definitely a whole different beast to the modern MKB building/collecting side of the hobby for sure though.
Vintage can go 2 ways imo: you're either hunting for the boards as boards (the IBM stuff is in this category), or you're hunting for the boards as parts ( _most_ Alps stuff is in this category)
with hunting boards, you're getting these blocks of matter that is empowering, these machines that were made when standards and budget were higher, they have their own thing going for them
with hunting parts, you're getting parts that are exotic and truly rare, these parts can lift a custom build's status to more than "just a custom" because it's shown that the person has invested something massive to complete it, time or money (this will take a lot of thinking to make it complete, since -- for like a capset -- you'd need multiple, rare capsets just to make a _usable_ one)
because of these hunts, it is illogical to teach somebody else to hunt, since they'd seep your chances of getting the boards you want, so you'd have to do your own research
I'm cursed in hunting vintage stuff 🤣
for germans, hunting for cherry og keycaps is a big thing, as norde kits are unbelievable expensive
if you can find a cherry g80-3000 with doubleshots, you basically get gmk quality for a cheap buck even with a norde kit
gb prices for gmk base + norde are much higher than that, so yeah. worth.
While I wouldn't recommend to anyone to get into vintage boards I'm still ride or die for them! Just such an awesome feeling to get an old board in great shape or get one in not so great shape but be able to use some things out of it for a modern build! Definitely a whole different beast to the modern MKB building/collecting side of the hobby for sure though.
It's okay MoI, if you don't want the 5251 I'll tale it off your hands 😂
The good ol IBM 😁