My IBM Model M from 1993 : mechanicalkeyboards

[+] Shameless@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

But it's nothing special, those things were built like absolute tanks. You could kill someone with an early model M and then go right back to typing.

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It does have a few battle scars but everything still works great and the keys are still very clicky

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

How do you deal with the multiple keystroke issues? If I remember correctly, it's only able to have a few simultaneous keystrokes before it doesn't recognize it.

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You mean the lack of n-key rollover? To be honest, that's never been an issue for me and I do a fair bit of gaming.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Oh good. I remembered having that issue in the 90s when using these keyboards.

[-] funkajunk@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

No Super key would drive me nuts

[-] maxprime@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some people map the caps lock key to super.

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

thats what im doing and its great

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No need. CTRL-ESC.

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

too complicated for my smooth brain

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have a IBM Model M from 1984 as my daily driver.

CTRL-ESC works, I actually prefer it.

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So yours is almost 40 years old, nice. It's amazing how far technology has moved in that time and here we are still using these ancient keyboards... they have seen some things we wouldn't believe.

[-] thorcik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Cyrix gang rise up!

[-] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I'd have thought it would have yellowed more than that, did you have to treat it to make it look so good?

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Surprisingly not, I don't think I've ever seen a yellowed Model M (or earlier Model F for that matter).

[-] Moghul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Told you people would love it :D I'm glad she lives!

[-] lorez@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

We have the same exact brief...ehm...keyboard.

[+] lukas@lemmy.haigner.me 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I wish more modern keyboards had them as it's actually quite handy. I use it more for decoration purposes most of the time but it can be a real live saver if you keep misplacing smaller tools

[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

the OG keyboard, how is it?

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Amazing, really tactile and loud :D

[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man I wish I had a curled up wire for keyboard and mouse... My wires are way too long and always get in the way.

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