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On 2012-11-05, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> and my prized possession: a Dell-branded Model-M craftily lifted out of |
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> the corner where it was hiding and no-one knew what it even was :-) |
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Microsoft can't touch IBM when it comes to quality keyboards. |
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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. It's |
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an absolutely brilliant job of engineering and manufacturing. |
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I'm also very fond the IBM "space saver" keyaboard with the built in |
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"eraser nub" mouse keys and _without_ the waste-of-space numeric |
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keypad. I'm an engineer, not a checkout clerk at a grocery store... |
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I _really_ wanted to like my happy hacker keyboard, but the key action |
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was just too stiff and vague. |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm DESPONDENT ... I |
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at hope there's something |
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gmail.com DEEP-FRIED under this |
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miniature DOMED STADIUM ... |