Welcome!
I love it here! I too am a relative newcomer - both to this board and to the love affair (or, in my case now, "obsession") with mechanical keyboards. I can definitely relate to the way you describe that sensory recall as I had the same feeling when I got my model M. My own public grade school had originally gone from k-6 and just before I came of age they added a couple of bungalow type classrooms to extend through 7th and 8th grade and offered for the first time a choice of "electives" - one for each semester. One was a computer lab outfitted with about 30 Commodore 64's and color monitors where I was one of the lucky ones who my first choice and got to learn BASIC first semester, but second semester had to settle for my alternative choice, typing, because the teacher said I was absent too much (At a time when "latchkey kids" were starting to become much more common, I developed a penchant for taking the day off at an early age by "not feeling well" in the morning and then having the house all to myself. Kinda like Ferris Bueller without the adventure...)
Then in 8th grade I left to attend a private school that went from 7-12 and had new computer lab that was outfitted with about 25 IBM's with the orange monochrome monitors plus two green-screened Apples (IIe, I think.) I took Turbo PASCAL in 9th grade and despite having a real talent for it (according to the teacher, anyway) I never did end up taking any more computer courses since I didn't figure the world needed any more software -I mean, what more could you do? ( :rofl:... Oh well, I was 14, what did I know? :der: ) Anyway, I remembered writing essays in that lab and how easily my fingers rolled over the keys fast enough to crank out a draft in the period before class if the inspiriation was right. (Yeah, despite spending my leisure days at home, I rarely did my homework there; it cut into my TV time for Dukes of Hazzard and Emergency One.)
Now twenty years later I finally know why it seemed like I had forgotton how to type and the Model M I got from that era takes me back to the same skills I had then. How in the world people can tolerate the crap that is produced now is beyond me. I've now collected a small pile of boards in various states of repair since February and show little sign of slowing despite the damage its doing to my finances.
Hey maybe we oughta add an "introduce yourself" section under community to have a sort of welcoming front door for the new members to be greeted? One many forums where they are present I have only stopped by them once, but here it seems different. Like there is more enthusiasm present from the folks who register or something, perhaps due to the specific subject matter being somewhat narrowor in focus than say a "dog lovers" type of group[. And have I mentioned I love it here?
