On 18 July 2017 at 20:27, Ian Finder via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Keyboard collectors are a great evil in this world. I liken them to ivory > poachers.
I appreciate that bottom-posting just got a bit harder on Gmail, but it still works. I confess to much trepidation at the hate for keyboard collectors, as I am one. I'm typing on a late-1980s Apple Extended on my 2011 Mac mini right now, connected via an ABD->USB convertor. Works beautifully and makes the Mini feel like a proper Mac to me. My desktop PC, meanwhile, has an IBM Model M, as do my work machines. I have half a dozen of these beauties and I adore them. I also have a small cache of DEC 420 keyboards for when I get around to resurrecting my DEC VAXstations. But all of the machines these came off went to new homes with a working (but inferior) keyboard attached. We're not _all_ evil, you know. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053
