most-expensive.net— Why not spend some money on the computer part you interact with the most, your keyboard? Keyboards ranging from $250-$4400 USD.
Mar 10, 2007View in Crawl 4
What if somebody made functional replicas of vintage keyboards? Like, a replica of an Apple ][ keyboard or Atari 1200XL or whatever and it would work with your PC?
Cool! I have a stack of keyboards in my basement. I just went and looked through them - turns out I have one of these clicking IBM keyboards with the detachable keys - says "Plt No F2 Model M (C) IBM Corp. 1984" on the bottom. Unplugged old KB and plugged it in - I'm using it to type this comment.The computer this keyboard was designed to work with is only a few thousandths the speed of the one it still works with... and any 23 year old computer part that still works is obviously an awesome device. I'll bet this thing will still work 25 years from now.Now back to my wireless Logitech with multimedia and program menu buttons. :)
I think I have no life, because I'm reading my comments this far back for replies...Anyway, I never did plug my Logitech keyboard back in, it's still on the couch behind me. This IBM keyboard is THE s**t. The keys get a little stiff when you don't use one for fifteen years, but that has loosened up. I got it all cleaned up, got the WordPerfect 5.0 for DOS hotkey template sticky stuff off the top, and this thing just rocks.I also saw it has a date of 20MAR89 on it, so it's not as old as I thought... yeah. Is this thing on? Is this my blog? Hello? Oops...
brickbatMar 10, 2007
I have the ms one preordered... i use ubuntu but man that is 1 sweet mf
bonexawMar 11, 2007
Better question. Why is the $199 diNovo Edge not on the list?IMO looks to be a much better keyboard than the $250 MS one.
daveallen99Mar 11, 2007
What if somebody made functional replicas of vintage keyboards? Like, a replica of an Apple ][ keyboard or Atari 1200XL or whatever and it would work with your PC?
noahhowardMar 11, 2007
They look so f**king cool...
gameforgeMar 11, 2007
Cool! I have a stack of keyboards in my basement. I just went and looked through them - turns out I have one of these clicking IBM keyboards with the detachable keys - says "Plt No F2 Model M (C) IBM Corp. 1984" on the bottom. Unplugged old KB and plugged it in - I'm using it to type this comment.The computer this keyboard was designed to work with is only a few thousandths the speed of the one it still works with... and any 23 year old computer part that still works is obviously an awesome device. I'll bet this thing will still work 25 years from now.Now back to my wireless Logitech with multimedia and program menu buttons. :)
gameforgeMar 20, 2007
I think I have no life, because I'm reading my comments this far back for replies...Anyway, I never did plug my Logitech keyboard back in, it's still on the couch behind me. This IBM keyboard is THE s**t. The keys get a little stiff when you don't use one for fifteen years, but that has loosened up. I got it all cleaned up, got the WordPerfect 5.0 for DOS hotkey template sticky stuff off the top, and this thing just rocks.I also saw it has a date of 20MAR89 on it, so it's not as old as I thought... yeah. Is this thing on? Is this my blog? Hello? Oops...
nifyMay 24, 2007
Nice indeed. Not for me, definitely.