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Offline silas1128

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Goodwill find! Model M on its 25th birthday!! (29SEP89)
« on: Mon, 29 September 2014, 12:16:33 »
My school has a split campus, and I have a few hours between classes. So I always stop at the GW right next to the first campus. Today I lucked out!! Its grungy with cigarette burns, but its nearly intact. Only missing one keycap and two rubber feet on the bottom. But seems to be in full working condition (I'm typing on it right now and yes I'll be washing my hands..). But I just realized a pretty cool coincidence... Today is September 29th, 2014. The birthday of this keyboard is 29SEP89!! Making it 25, TODAY!

http://imgur.com/a/IVCoK

I found the crumpled up receipt in the car just for some extra proof.
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Re: Goodwill find! Model M on its 25th birthday!! (29SEP89)
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 29 September 2014, 12:53:49 »
Lucky find.

Goodwill stores in the North Georgia Region do not sell any computer gear.

A manager told me that it was due to pressure from "proper" computer stores not to "compete" with them.
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Re: Goodwill find! Model M on its 25th birthday!! (29SEP89)
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 29 September 2014, 15:49:39 »
clean it please

how much of it actually works? no popped rivets or anything?
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Offline silas1128

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Re: Goodwill find! Model M on its 25th birthday!! (29SEP89)
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 29 September 2014, 15:55:46 »
I don't have the tool to pop it apart, hopefully will today. Just before washing my hands I plugged it in and typed. Didn't seem to have any issues.
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Re: Goodwill find! Model M on its 25th birthday!! (29SEP89)
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 01 October 2014, 05:09:03 »
Happy birthday Model M!

Nice :)

I sometimes wonder how many of today's keyboards will still work in 25 years time.
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