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Offline o2dazone

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John Gruber from Daring Fireball uses an AEKII
« on: Sun, 06 September 2009, 12:33:48 »
In fact he's got stories of after 14 years of use, the E key "went flaky" and he brought another one out of storage to use in place of. Says a lot of about them delicious ALPS sliders

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/04/29/aek2

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/05/02/derek


more reads
http://daringfireball.net/search?q=apple+extended

Offline o2dazone

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John Gruber from Daring Fireball uses an AEKII
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 06 September 2009, 20:36:24 »
guess no one reads him

Offline wellington1869

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John Gruber from Daring Fireball uses an AEKII
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 06 September 2009, 20:48:20 »
lol. who is he?

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Offline o2dazone

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John Gruber from Daring Fireball uses an AEKII
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 06 September 2009, 20:50:12 »
tech blogger

Offline wellington1869

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John Gruber from Daring Fireball uses an AEKII
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 06 September 2009, 20:56:12 »
says he got 14 years out of his aekII.  pretty cool.

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Offline Rajagra

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John Gruber from Daring Fireball uses an AEKII
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 06 September 2009, 21:54:42 »
I did listen to the download, they talked for over an hour about the AEK boards, I guess they really like them.

Got me interested in another purchase, damn them. :lol:

Offline msiegel

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John Gruber from Daring Fireball uses an AEKII
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 06 September 2009, 22:11:37 »
Quote from: Rajagra;115412
I did listen to the download, they talked for over an hour about the AEK boards, I guess they really like them.


i've typed on those boards for 30,000 hours -- they're good :D

Filco Zero (Fukka) AEKII sliders and keycaps * Filco Tenkeyless MX brown * IBM F/AT parts: modding
Model F Mod Log * Open Source Generic keyboard controller

Offline wellington1869

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John Gruber from Daring Fireball uses an AEKII
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 07 September 2009, 00:35:08 »
Quote from: Rajagra;115412
I did listen to the download, they talked for over an hour about the AEK boards, I guess they really like them.



did they say anything interesting?

"Blah blah blah grade school blah blah blah IBM PS/2s blah blah blah I like Model Ms." -- Kishy

using: ms 7000/Das 3