Lucky guy, only ONE ??
Since my IBM-board "died" in 1995
( That's what my (ex)-girlfriend said, I suspect it was assassinated)
I haven't cared much about keyboards, they all seemed to suck and 20 bucks was WAY to expensive.. You know the drill ..
Then my POS-board dies and, stupid as I am, I decide to see if you can still get good keyboards.. and find this site .
DAMN YOU GEEKHACK..
You have unleashed a fetish I didn't realize I had .
Now I'm gonna die a poor man with a thousand keyboards :)
Hey. Purchasing lots of nice keyboards can be hard to resist, but I've resisted it the best here. I've been on this forum for over a year and still haven't spent over $20 on a keyboard.
Yeah, I've kinda decided on a £50 +postage max-limit,
unless it's something extraordinary, like the Geekhack SIIG..
By God, that thing is so beautiful :typing:
The solution is to be poor like me. Though a filco brown would be nice...
In the meantime, I busy myself by sorting through a shipping pallet full of old goodies. Damn you, geekhack. You're like TVtropes, but you cost money.Show Image(http://www.danielbeaver.net/storage/projects/keyboards/CrateFullOfKeyboards.jpg)
I see a lot of good keyboards in there! Where on earth did you find such treasures?A friend of the family, who farms for a living, and pulls gold out of old computers on the side. He doesn't have much use for the keyboards, but he can't stand throwing things away. I'm slowly building up an inventory of what's in there; I've counted at least a dozen Model Ms, a scattering of Model Fs, and some other boards I can't identify, but which appear to have alps switches. Most of them are crappy HP membrane keyboards.
They're a bit dirty...Show Image(http://www.danielbeaver.net/storage/projects/keyboards/08172010690.jpg)
A friend of the family, who farms for a living, and pulls gold out of old computers on the side. He doesn't have much use for the keyboards, but he can't stand throwing things away. I'm slowly building up an inventory of what's in there; I've counted at least a dozen Model Ms, a scattering of Model Fs, and some other boards I can't identify, but which appear to have alps switches. Most of them are crappy HP membrane keyboards.
They're a bit dirty...
...but they clean up well
Bah, it's going to be so much work to fix all those up, but I am compelled to do it.
Daniel Beaver, if you have an interest in making one of those big beasts usable, there's currently an inline converter design being developed (I'm a tester of it and typing on the Model M version right now).I would be interested in that. I am surprised at how much nicer the Model F feels in comparison to the model M. There are also a bunch of terminal Model Ms in that batch that would need a converter.
That COULD be an M. More likely F, but could be an M.
Daniel Beaver, if you have an interest in making one of those big beasts usable, there's currently an inline converter design being developed (I'm a tester of it and typing on the Model M version right now).
Lucky guy, only ONE ??Something I can definitely relate to. I did get one of each of the ones I wanted and now I want to get TWO of the ones I really like. Well, actually I really only want to get two of the MX blue boards because I like mine so much that I'm looking for excuses to type and I'm afraid I'm gonna wear it out.... Plus, through a happy accident of it being my birthday around the time of my declaring a search for one (and a partner whose been extraordinarily and surprisingly supportive of my addiction) I've now ended up with 2 AT Model F's and though I can think of NO reason to keep both I'm having a very hard time convincing myself to part with one. Terrible, isn't it?
I want one of each !!
Thanks. I am after a model F too!