The Highly Collectible Keyboards of The Convergent IWS/AWS Workstations 64-00164

December 10, 2020 eBay Auction thread (started by me)

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for $192.50 + $24.73 Standard Shipping = $217.23

Interestingly, that's more than we paid for our first AWS machine on eBay, which was only $125 shipping included, I think [I shall verify with my archives].

December 25, 2019 Deskthority.net member MMcM restoration report:

"Convergent Technologies and Negative Serial"

And what really gets me is this magical device that his keyboard is plugged into:

November 21, 2011 Deskthority.net member HaaTa report:

Where is this keyboard from?

Notice that they found Gerald Hawkins' (AKA MathTeacherGuy's) 1981 Convergent Technologies photos, which have long been featured in the footer over at MightyFrame.com

Also note my reply on this thread in 2017, shortly after we acquired our first AWS.

It seems that this keyboard is also extremely well photographed and posted on Flickr by Jacob Alexander (note this flicker URL contains the phrase "triplehaata", perhaps indicating a connection between this flicker user and the deskthority user HaaTa).  This also visually appears to be the same keyboard.  And amazingly nice photography, Jacob!

Convergent 64-000164

(Adding photos from this Flickr page soon)

Also Reference:
https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25405

It is my hope that we work with the collectors of these keyboards, so that the machines