Gregory's Server
@babe This keyboard's sibling was my first input device in a real programming job. They were brill. They belonged to a PS/2 Model 80.
Model 80 got long in the tooth and the company wouldn't upgrade. I resorted to accidentally kicking the tower over. Repeatedly.
It survived. Repeatedly.
Eventually I accidentally (really this time) managed to shove a VGA cable in badly and bend a pin and convinced my boss the motherboard had died because there was no video output, and the PS/2 was retired and I got a shiny new... I dunno, generic 486 with a co-processor and many rams. But they took away my keyboard and I had to use the new generic one.
I broke FIVE of the new ones in the first year, before I learned to be gentle with the poor flimsy things.
The PS/2 keyboard absolutely rocked. It was unbreakable.
@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.