On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:06:37 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-11-05, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > and my prized possession: a Dell-branded Model-M craftily lifted > > out of the corner where it was hiding and no-one knew what it even > > was :-) > > Microsoft can't touch IBM when it comes to quality keyboards. > > The keyboard that came with my 8Mhz IBM PC-AT back in 1986 still gets > used every day and still works as good as the day I unpacked it. It's > an absolutely brilliant job of engineering and manufacturing. That's because it's a Model M - the best keyboard ever made IMNSHO You know you can still buy those? Some crowd bought the entire manufacturing rights to the Model M and set up shop making them for sale. Same keyboard, some models have electronic updates (like USB), same brilliant key action, same ability to be used as a lethal weapon (club) or as a cricket bat ;-) Cost is around $100 each last time I looked. > > I'm also very fond the IBM "space saver" keyaboard with the built in > "eraser nub" mouse keys and _without_ the waste-of-space numeric > keypad. I'm an engineer, not a checkout clerk at a grocery store... > > I _really_ wanted to like my happy hacker keyboard, but the key action > was just too stiff and vague. > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
