Gregory's Serverit's my keyboard's 30th birthday today, give him booosts! :toot:
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 @babe ah. My first love. Used to have a couple of extra copies stashed for spare parts for years, before good quality spare switches became widely available. @villetakanen This is a buckling spring. I've always been tempted to try and source another *just in case* but the price is just too prohibitive @grayface_ghost When I got my first computer of my very own I had one of the shitty cheap imitation microsoft ones. I broke it within weeks and since no one else in my family was all that attached to this one, I pinched it from the more communal computer. Through a lot of my teen years I had to have a towel or two folded up underneath it to try and dampen the noise because it drove people nuts. I'd still get told to shut the fuck up occasionally. @grayface_ghost Funnily enough it's one of very few things that have actually stayed with me and survived from my childhood. The only other things being a christening bracelet and a teddy bear  That's a definite win. Life advice from an old hag, keep those things forever. I don't really have anything from when I was a kid, some school poems is about it. My ex "convinced" me to throw out the teddy I had when I was a baby years ago. Not great but... then the BBC Micro had to go because it was taking up space. And I did it. If I still had that Beeb now, you'd have to pry it from my cold dead fingers with a crowbar. I survived being a teenager because of that thing. @grayface_ghost Oh I'll be keeping at least two of them. The teddy I actually don't care all that much about if I'm honest, some bad memories. Funny the stock we put in some things, eh @grayface_ghost Also I'm very sorry you lost those things. I know the importance they can hold, that really must have stung Thanks. It's not really the things, is it? It's what they represent and what they represent is real and powerful, and losing them means losing part of what they represent. People tell you it's just stuff. But it's not. Stuff has baggage that can't be detached. Keep the keyboard, I hope I'm around for his 40th :)  @M0PWX Hell yeah, for when you either wanna annoy everyone around you or knock them the fuck out. Useful for all occasions @babe Holy crap. Hard to believe we still actually made things (other than colossal mistakes) in the UK thirty years ago.  @engravecavedave Welcome to the party :toot: Yeah, we're LOUD. My neighbour once complained about a sometimes clicking, sometimes droning sound. Took a while for us to realise it was me. I had to have towels under it as a teenager as the sound reverberated through the house. Still got told to shut the fuck up at night a lot. Had a spare softer one on standby eventually @engravecavedave Yeeeah. I eventually ended up with mine banned from the house. I had to get a red switch for indoors.  @Betty Nope. I had thought of getting a second for spares just in case it's needed one day. The only thing I've noticed is the spacebar, while original, is a bit more discoloured than the others.  @babe the keyboard is by far the most important input device. I totally get why someone would be so hyper specific in their keyboard preferences to favor a 30 year old model. I'm personally running 18 year old keyboard that I bought as a teenager. The switches are mechanical and the keycaps are completely blank. Love it. @babe Super late to the party, but here are our his and hers Model Ms from ‘91. Yes, we painted them black. Yes, it’s a travesty. @babe Here’s mine. It’s from the mid-1990s, came w/ an RS6000. I don’t know if the ones mfgd by Lexmark are considered less genuine. Congrats! @babe I've got it's older sibling at work. Turned 37 as of September. May yours live well and have a great birthday  @babe Have you tried holding down both left and right shift, then holding down 'v', then letting go of the shifts, then letting go of V?  @babe @simonzerafa A story for the ages. When you first got together, did something just ‘click’?   @babe yeah... Treat that workhorse of a #ModelM with a nice clean... Because that is #PeakKeyboard! @babe But if you really want to push it to the next level: Theres an #aftermarket #Bluetooth + #USB controller known as #Blusb that makes it #20PercentCooler! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlUy9Z9Ktqg  @Александр ты бы хоть смотрел, кого репостишь.
> Pronouns are they/them. 🔞 > Find me on OnlyFans at #^http://onlyfans.com/sophia_isobella ну какая «девочка» будет так просто с 30-тилетней клавиатурой фоткаться? @babe happy birthday to your keyboard! My original M keyboard with DIN connector is still in a box somewhere because we just moved, but you can view some of my other IBM keyboard relics here: https://mastodon.social/@wiert/111109736962480989 It includes a "brand new" IBM TrackPoint keyboard model SK-8845CR keyboard (very hard to find ones with nipple but without trackpad). |
@babe This keyboard seems really massive.