Author Topic: How old are mech KB users? (Read 17006 times)

WXGhoul · « **Reply #50 on:** Sat, 15 January 2011, 11:58:49 »

22. It's nice to spend on things like a mech board while still having the excuse of youth on your side.

Ghostpixel · « **Reply #51 on:** Sat, 15 January 2011, 13:00:34 »

I'm 33

digitalleftovers · « **Reply #52 on:** Sat, 15 January 2011, 15:38:30 »

I'm 25. I just got my first mechanical about 5 months ago. I love it! I got the filco 104 "Otaku" from EK. I knew of the existance of mechanical keyboards, and was aware of the paradigm shift in keyboard design in the last 15 years or so, but I had no idea that there was an entire community devoted to keyboards, or HID's for that matter.

A co-worker told me about geekhack after I asked him why his keyboard was so loud! He has a unicomp customizer. Long story short, I am looking forward to getting another board for work so I can CLICK-CLACK away with the unicomp. :smile:

BigDov · « **Reply #53 on:** Sat, 15 January 2011, 16:22:25 »

40 here, and as stated elsewhere, I grew up with mechanicals and I really miss typing on them- as you all can attest, they're just 'better'. My first ( a Deck 82 purchased from ricercar ) isn't even here yet, and I'm thinking about another one I'd like to get already.

elef · « **Reply #54 on:** Sat, 15 January 2011, 16:27:01 »

28, which, surprisingly, makes me older than the average geekhacker. Ouch.

msiegel · « **Reply #55 on:** Sat, 15 January 2011, 16:41:57 »

41; long live mechanical keyboards!

you whippersnappers

Findecanor · « **Reply #56 on:** Sat, 15 January 2011, 17:03:31 »

I'm 35.

I have been computing since 1988 when I got a Commodore 64 for Christmas (I had wished for an Amiga 500.. but anyway), and I have been working as a computer programmer since 1998. All this time, I have always been very picky about the feel of my keyboards, but I did not delve much into the technology inside them until this spring, when I stumbled upon this site. Since about 2002-2003, I have been collecting, building, tinkering and obsessing about the details with movie prop replicas, and that has worked up a certain mentality in me. I find that there is some of the same mentality here, only here it relates a little bit more to the tools that I use for work. If it weren't for those things, I don't think that I would have become as active here as I am today.

keyboardlover · « **Reply #57 on:** Sat, 15 January 2011, 17:51:19 »

How old is Ripster anyway? I'd ask him but he fell asleep.

bugfix · « **Reply #58 on:** Sat, 15 January 2011, 17:54:40 »

Kolt · « **Reply #59 on:** Sat, 15 January 2011, 19:31:23 »

I'm 17. *flexes*

audioave10 · « **Reply #60 on:** Sat, 15 January 2011, 22:38:53 »

I learned to type on an Underwood metal typewriter at age 14. It must have weighed 13 lbs. However, I never used PC's until the year 2000. So even at an age of 55, I also missed the clicky-keyboard years. I've been using them now for less than two years. You can be too young OR too old.

elef · « **Reply #61 on:** Sun, 16 January 2011, 05:32:47 »

Quote from: ripster;279157

Or bad at Math.

At N=326 the poll says Avg = 29 years old.

Maybe this is why many NKRO testers can't figure out the difference between Minimum and Maximum?

Oh good. I misremembered the average as being 26.9. My memory is not what it used to be...

Jerri · « **Reply #62 on:** Mon, 17 January 2011, 14:59:25 »

I'm 22, Had my first IBM Model M, when i was 4 years old :-). Then i used Mech Boards until i was about 13. Since a few days i am back with a Model M, and my Filco should arrive soon, too!
I'll won't use a rubber dome board again

runeazn · « **Reply #63 on:** Mon, 17 January 2011, 15:29:32 »

14 rofl

itlnstln · « **Reply #64 on:** Mon, 17 January 2011, 15:44:41 »

Quote from: runeazn;279999

14 rofl

Shocker.

runeazn · « **Reply #65 on:** Mon, 17 January 2011, 15:46:37 »

well if you visited my thread which you certainly did, and notice why panda calls me princess.
you would've known

and no i aint a girl -.-

itlnstln · « **Reply #66 on:** Mon, 17 January 2011, 15:48:07 »

I could have sworn you weren't a day older than ten. How wrong I was.

runeazn · « **Reply #67 on:** Mon, 17 January 2011, 15:48:48 »

Apocrypha · « **Reply #68 on:** Mon, 17 January 2011, 18:53:05 »

I'm not as old as the keyboard in my desk:

audioave10 · « **Reply #69 on:** Mon, 17 January 2011, 22:44:39 »

Now THAT is different! What is that IBM used for?

msiegel · « **Reply #70 on:** Mon, 17 January 2011, 22:50:19 »

that's the keyboard from the PCjr

and don't call me junior!

Sam · « **Reply #71 on:** Mon, 17 January 2011, 23:01:18 »

Quote from: Apocrypha;280109

I'm not as old as the keyboard in my desk:

Do you actually use that? I've never met anyone who liked the PCjr keyboards. There were two varieties that I recall. The first one being absolutely horrible, then an updated one which was better but still nothing like the full-sized PC and AT boards.

The original one also used an IR interface if I remember correctly. Don't know if the updated version also still used the IR or not. If it is an IR interface, how did you interface it to your PC? Please don't tell us that you're using an IBM PCjr computer with it.

I once had a client who had a PCjr and dreaded having to visit him and type on that keyboard.

DanGWanG · « **Reply #72 on:** Mon, 17 January 2011, 23:11:06 »

Two-Five.

Apocrypha · « **Reply #73 on:** Mon, 17 January 2011, 23:25:38 »

We sold the PCJr quite a while ago, and I don't recall ever using it myself. And hell no, I have no idea how I'd even connect it to my computer.

It has both the IR port and something else that looks like a phone line jack.

But just trying to type on it is terrible, there's easy way to move between rows because there's huge gaps. The space bar isn't that bad though, no flex!

And it's the keyboard IN my desk, not the keyboard ON my desk. I doubt I could even connect it anymore.

thrab · « **Reply #74 on:** Tue, 18 January 2011, 00:45:05 »

26. Never used a mechanical keyboard until about a year and a half ago. Fell in love immediately. Can't stand normal membrane pieces of garage anymore. Scissor switch is ok in a pinch though.

bettablue · « **Reply #75 on:** Wed, 16 February 2011, 21:57:57 »

Well, well, well... 51 here. I guess I one of the old fartson GH! I used several mechanical keyboards in college. My first IBM was a model F, but as things progressed, I used the model M too. I actually started earlier than the model f too. We had these Daisy Wheel printer/keyboard terminal stations I actually took my first programming class on. I started writing code in COBOL on that one. Wow, that was a long time ago. Then as most of us, things happened and I got started using rubber dome keyboards like everyone, OK almost everyone. That's why when I started hearing about "clicky" keyboards, I immediately began looking for one. I'm so glad I got my model M.

Rairden · « **Reply #76 on:** Wed, 16 February 2011, 22:07:27 »

26 old years. I will soon be dead in a few more of those.

DaemonRaccoon · « **Reply #77 on:** Wed, 16 February 2011, 22:14:27 »

I am 12 and what is this? :suspicious:
No, actually I'll be 22 in a couple of months. Haven't had my (working) board for long, realise now what I've been missing.

raeb · « **Reply #78 on:** Wed, 16 February 2011, 22:21:32 »

Don't post much, but about to be 27 in a couple months.

pitashen · « **Reply #79 on:** Wed, 16 February 2011, 23:11:36 »

2...2.....28!!

*Blush*

theferenc · « **Reply #80 on:** Wed, 16 February 2011, 23:32:27 »

It's fascinating who is choosing to respond in this thread and who isn't...

xira · « **Reply #81 on:** Thu, 17 February 2011, 01:30:05 »

slueth · « **Reply #82 on:** Thu, 17 February 2011, 01:41:44 »

21

Pretty much the perfect age. Jealous?

noctua · « **Reply #83 on:** Thu, 17 February 2011, 01:45:33 »

I'm younger than iMav, older than ripster and i looks much better in real life as he.. :wink:

Twitchy · « **Reply #84 on:** Thu, 17 February 2011, 04:13:26 »

Quote from: slueth;296578

21 Pretty much the perfect age. Jealous?

Not at all because 39 is the perfect age!

denydog · « **Reply #85 on:** Thu, 17 February 2011, 04:38:13 »

I attended a community dinner a couple of months ago, and standing at the door where they were collecting the money, I looked up at the price list on the wall. It was at that moment that I had the sudden, and surprising realization that I qualified for the senior discount price, and by just a few days. Paying less for food, a right of passage for sure.

I'm still not sure how I feel about the whole thing. Ambivalent about the aging, but the fact that I can't do anything about it, and the fact it definitely saved me some money makes it a win I guess.

I can say I evolved from birth in a parallel path with computers, though I have no idea what type of keyboards I was using in the early days. Many were of an industrial variety, used in an industrial setting.

BTW- Speaking of old age, my wife gave me Mass Effect 2 for a Valentines day gift. She knows nothing of PC games, but she said she just googled games for people that liked Crysis Warhead. What a sweet lady! I had wondered several days earlier, why she had asked me out of the blue, what game I was playing.

I replaced the Vista on her laptop with Windows 7 in return.

slueth · « **Reply #86 on:** Thu, 17 February 2011, 04:58:25 »

Aw thats sweet denydog.. Mass Effect 2 is super badass. There is some romance in it too *nudge nudge wink wink *

Garry · « **Reply #87 on:** Thu, 17 February 2011, 09:20:42 »

Quote from: 7bit;278608

You where too quick!

Judging from some pic I saw in some other thread, he must be around 69.2 .

My date of birth is: 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC

Must be 40 something.

BTW: If someone is fully unaware of what is inside a keyboard, guessing it is a spring doesn't require too much technical understanding.

Nice, epoc baby. I would have to alter my unix machine to default to unix time and display my age as the date

I'm 32 btw

RiGS · « **Reply #88 on:** Thu, 17 February 2011, 09:24:37 »

Hak Foo · « **Reply #89 on:** Thu, 17 February 2011, 22:14:44 »

The bad news, 7bit, is that in 2038 you'll mysteriously NEVER HAVE BEEN BORN YET.

As for the poll:

30, but I often order off the pensioner menu (it's cheaper and sometimes less vast portions). I really dislike that Village Inn restructured their pensioner menu-- it used to offer meals with a half-slice of pie (itself like $2.50) for like 6.50.

sawedust · « **Reply #90 on:** Fri, 18 February 2011, 22:45:10 »

21 with a couple of years experience.

Puts me closer to the mid-20s

TheStentch · « **Reply #91 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 08:51:17 »

Eclairz · « **Reply #92 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 09:20:28 »

bugfix · « **Reply #93 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 09:21:22 »

Geezers.

microsoft windows · « **Reply #94 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 09:27:36 »

How old do you think I am?

bugfix · « **Reply #95 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 09:30:05 »

At least 50.

HaveANiceDay · « **Reply #96 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 10:06:50 »

I'm 25. Sup~

Canada · « **Reply #97 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 13:18:17 »

I am 20 years old.

Canada · « **Reply #98 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 13:19:59 »

Quote from: ripster;298844

Canada is older than that.

Or at least Canadians all act like they are 70 years old.

Oh ho ho. I suppose all Canadians say "eh" too, eh?

db_Iodine · « **Reply #99 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 13:56:15 »

Quote from: microsoft windows;298742

How old do you think I am?

The age of your oldest computer +10 years.

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Author Topic: How old are mech KB users? (Read 17006 times)