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[reddragdiva]

• Oh, that Donald! (Technically worksafe.)

• Vanessa Carlton is apparently the next Mandy Kane. "I think they are tapping into the potential high school massacre demographic."

I have an IBM Model M! cymrys was going to throw it away ... arkady grabbed it. I'm typing on it right now. It's missing the 'Pause' key, but I really don't care: I have a computer with an acoustic keyboard. ALL HAIL!

• "TYPE HARD OR GO HOME."

• "quite possibly the best keyboard in existence"

• Deconstruction of the Model M.

• Unicomp, who still make buckling spring keyboards under license.

(grumpy_sysadmin and jezebel_z are still fully entitled to steak and blowjobs [respectively], because it's the thought that counts.)

redcountess almost didn't make it out to Motorhead last night, but decided she'd feel even worse not going than if she did. Review here. I HAVE SEEN MOTÖRHEAD AT THE HAMMERSMITH ODEON, AND FUCK YOU!

arkady has come visiting bearing cheesy pasta (and a Model M keyboard). redcountess has been fighting the RIAA with awful '80s hair metal. But I love her very much and she is ill, so am keeping to loud clickety noises. Damn this thing is nice to type on. Now I want a better mouse ...

Comments

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

I have an IBM Model M!

How does one tell what model of IBM keyboard one has?

[reddragdiva]

Mine does not in fact have the letter 'M' visible on it anywhere other than the IBM logo and the relevant keys. I think the first one was called the 'Model M' and it's become a generic name for its successors.

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

I am *so* tempted to take a snapshot of mine now.

Fsck.

I give up.

http://www.waldner.priv.at/temp/keyb.JPG

[reddragdiva]

That doesn't really answer your question, does it? The devices I'm referring to as 'Model M' keyboards are distinguishable by the buckling spring key mechanism (for that proper "clickety-click" sound) and that they have a metal plate in the back that weighs a ton and makes them useful for inter-cubicle hand to hand combat.

Also, the rows of keys are curved inward from top to bottom, rather than being flat as on most keyboards - I suspect that's the thing that makes them so nice to type on. I'm not sure if they're nicer than the Microsoft Natural. I think I would do quite a lot of things for a Microsoft Natural Multimedia with buckling-spring keys.

[reddragdiva]

And mine's model 1391406!

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

Uh? Mine conform to your first paragraph, but not to the second.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I think I would do quite a lot of things for a Microsoft Natural Multimedia with buckling-spring keys.

Yep. I've actually got an ergonomic keyboard with a fairly good click response (two in fact, when I found it I got a spare at the same time), but it's still not a patch on the feedback from the old 3270 keyboards I used in various operations centres (which are presumably similar to your recent acquisition - they match the description anyway).

The feedback from MS keyboards is nothing short of revolting - it's like typing on the surface of some porridge. The logitech ergonomic was little better, disappointingly.

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

What next? Posh Spice reinvents herself as 'goffik' to revive her floundering music career?

"I have always had a dark side and love wearing black, so I think we have lots in common, it was a natural step for me".

On the other hand, I do recall a certain Mr Cave entertaining a certain small Antipodian songstress rather well.

[reddragdiva]

You sure? The sticker on the bottom of yours looks pretty much from the same series as mine.

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

http://www.waldner.priv.at/temp/keyb2.JPG

OTOH, looking at the thingummie closely, I _do_ notice that there's a slight bend in it. I don't, however, find that special, all my keyboards had that, and that includes the mechanical typewriter I learned typing on. It's quite possible that the lack of that is part of me being uncomfortable on "foreign" keyboards.

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

It should also be noted that a Real Keyboard will work flawlessly after being washed in a dishwasher (although you may want to take the caps and springs off first, wrap them in a sock, and put them in for a spin with normal laundry).

[reddragdiva]

"Posh Spice reinvents herself as 'goffik' to revive her floundering music career?"

Are her sales beaten by those of the typical Wasp Factory release as yet? I think we need her in Deathboy Studios for a Parental Advisory production.

[reddragdiva]

Yes. Compare to the Compaq intarweb keyboard I was using previously - completely flat.

[reddragdiva]

You really should give the Microsoft Natural a go, should the opportunity present itself - the shaping of the keys makes up for the mushiness to a tremendous extent. I can only really fault it on the misplacement of the '6' (they put it with the left-hand cluster, not the right-hand cluster).

[baralier.livejournal.com]

At least I've heard of Vanessa Carlton. Who the fusk is Mandy Kane? The Rocknerd entry is dated from May. Still never heard of him.

[reddragdiva]

Certainly not doing music as a Melbourne goth scenester, nor bothering with such. (Which is hard to fault him on, really - actually being a goth scene band is the kiss of death to ever breaking out of the subculture ghetto.) I listened to the track off his site and it was the major label idea of 'goth', i.e. metal-tinged pop with black lipstick.

Nice icon, though the day you wear a baseball cap, particularly backwards, is the day the universe explodes from w0rngness.

[zotz]

I don't know about mine, although it's really new compared to yours - 16-03-98 according to the stickers, from which the part and serial numbers have worn off. It's probably what one of those pages calls a "blue-logo" kb - it does have a blue IBM logo, it looks right, weighs enough, and clatters like hell.

I found it in a branch of Staples when looking for something else, and decided it was the keyboard I wanted to be using. A few weeks later my keyboard died on a Sunday when only Staples was open. Meant to happen, obviously. Not cheap, but I've had it for about five years and I still think it's the mutt's nuts.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

So are both of our One True Keyboards.