Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 07, 2004 11:07 PM
"I have<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... memories of the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... rock-solid good clickiness of those big, heavy AT keyboards"
But why keep only the memory? I am typing on an AT keyboard now.
10 years ago my company replaced IBM ATs with faster clones, tossing the ATs into the skip. But I savaged several AT keyboards and tossed my junk new one instead.
In fact I salvaged half a dozen to keep me going for the rest of my time, as they wore out. However I am still using the first - it has been hammered daily for ~15 years. It's built like a tank. I cannot comprehend the modern obsession love of lightness and fliminess.
Now and then I take it apart to clean it, and I pop off all the key caps into mild detergent to clean off the grime. Now I think of it, it could do with another wash now.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 07, 2004 11:07 PMBut why keep only the memory? I am typing on an AT keyboard now.
10 years ago my company replaced IBM ATs with faster clones, tossing the ATs into the skip. But I savaged several AT keyboards and tossed my junk new one instead.
In fact I salvaged half a dozen to keep me going for the rest of my time, as they wore out. However I am still using the first - it has been hammered daily for ~15 years. It's built like a tank. I cannot comprehend the modern obsession love of lightness and fliminess.
Now and then I take it apart to clean it, and I pop off all the key caps into mild detergent to clean off the grime. Now I think of it, it could do with another wash now.
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