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Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2012-11-06, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> The keyboard that came with my 8Mhz IBM PC-AT back in 1986 still gets |
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> >> used every day and still works as good as the day I unpacked it. |
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> >> It's an absolutely brilliant job of engineering and manufacturing. |
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> > |
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> > That's because it's a Model M - the best keyboard ever made IMNSHO |
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> > You know you can still buy those? |
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> Yea, Unicomp bought the rights and sells them for $80: |
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> http://www.pckeyboard.com/ |
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> I was thrilled when I saw they offered a "spacesaver M" model. I |
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> thought it was going to be a clone of the IBM 84-key model M "space |
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> saver" that IBM sold back in 87-89. |
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> Nope. It's the same desk-hogging size as a regular M -- not really |
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> sure where the "space saving" comes from. |
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> So now I'm really torn between the key-action of the M and the smaller |
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> size and built-in pointer of the IBM spacesaver II. |
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> Once upon a time, there was a Minnesota company called Omnikey that |
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> made excellent keyboards -- almost as good as the model M (and they |
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> had a dipswitch and extra keycaps that let you have a proper Control |
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> key). I think got bought by Northgate, and then went out of business |
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> back when all the other smaller clone manufactures... |
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Take a look at a company called Ergonomic Resources -- sorry I no longer |
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have the URL, but they make a similar keyboard which has actual |
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switches! etc. I do have the name -- Avant keyboard. |
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-- |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |
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