On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
I picked up the Model M I'm typing this on on eBay many years ago. It certainly was well used when I got it, and it's hardly had an idle day since. On the back, it lists the manufacturing date as 03-15-91. It still feels and works as solid as the day it was born. There are two kinds of keyboards; buckling spring, and crap 8-}
As I said when we first unpacked the brand new IBM PCs (around 1984-ish), I'd rather have the light switches on the wall. Push-push-push-CLICK!. Those were the original controversial keyboards with the reduced-size shift keys, because dammit, IBM knew what was best for you.
Several years ago I found a bunch of Compaq keyboards, the big rectangular kind with a heavy metal plate in them. They don't have a lot of wasted space around the edge, all the keys are in the right place, they aren't tiring to use, they don't wander around, and they were like $5 each. I think I still have one new in a box. Of course, they were from before cHomPaq.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
