How many keyboards do you own?

[canon.tk]

All 3 keyboards I use are mechanical now.  Blackwidow Ultimate at work and two Filcos at home.  I have a stack of about 6 membrane (4 IBM and 2 Dell) keyboards in the closet.

[reaper]

I just copy and paste.. lol

- Filco tenkeyless "Otaku" brown
- Filco tenkeyless black
- Filco tenkeyless blue
- Filco tenkeyless red
- Leopold FC200RT/AB
- Noppoo Choc Mini MX blue
- Ducky 1087
- ABS M1
- IBM M2
- IBM M4-1
- Logitech G15
- Logitech G19
- Logitech Wave (mouse + keyboard)
- Logitech S510 (cordless)
- Logitech diNovo (cordless)

[Keylamity]

Thirteen I think, not including the one built into my minty TRS-80 Model 4 (what kind of switches are those I wonder?) and two good 'uns enroute from EK.

Of course, only two of the thirteen are worthy of this crowd, my Realforce and Unicomp, the others are mainly aluminum Apples, or older Apple keyboards that came with those machines I've collected, or they were thrown in as free "extras".

[woody]

Apple //c ...128 kiB RAM

Luxury.

[bhtooefr]

/me suspects this will quickly devolve into people saying that their first computer was a CARDIAC, and they had to pay someone to take it when it was time to upgrade, and their dad killed them when they got home

[bettablue]

my first pc was something with a 386...the first computer i ever bought with my own money was a pionix with a p3 667mhz, 64mb of ram, and a 16mb nvidia vanta or something along those lines

My first computer was a TRS-80 model 1.  I was working at Radio Shack when they first came in78 or 79.  I had all of the peripherals which included the cassette tape drive, the upgrade to 16 K of memory, monochrome VGA monitor and eventually I had the expansion to 64 K of mamory along with the additional floppy drive bay that held 2 disks.  The entire thing was huge by today's standards.  The only reason I bought it was that as side work, I was writing programs in BASIC for clients who bought a computer and needed something specific, either for their business or as in one application, a guy wanted a program that would display 8 "windows" all showing different results for hif horse racing formula.  That was the most luctative program I wrote.  I ended up making enough to completely pay for the computer and all of the upgrades, about $4,000.00.  Ah, those were the days.

[woody]

... monochrome VGA monitor ...

Now that's where the flux capacitor was first used!

[RiGS]

My first computer was a TRS-80 model 1.  I was working at Radio Shack when they first came in78 or 79.  I had all of the peripherals which included the cassette tape drive, the upgrade to 16 K of memory, monochrome VGA monitor and eventually I had the expansion to 64 K of mamory along with the additional floppy drive bay that held 2 disks.  The entire thing was huge by today's standards.  The only reason I bought it was that as side work, I was writing programs in BASIC for clients who bought a computer and needed something specific, either for their business or as in one application, a guy wanted a program that would display 8 "windows" all showing different results for hif horse racing formula.  That was the most luctative program I wrote.  I ended up making enough to completely pay for the computer and all of the upgrades, about $4,000.00.  Ah, those were the days.

Did you wrote the VHF?

[gore]

I have:

Acer x1
ALPS x2
BS x1
ML x4
MX x1
Rubber dome x4

Possibly another 2 to add to that list by the end of the week, may be throwing a few out as well though.

[BucklingSpring]

/me suspects this will quickly devolve into people saying that their first computer was a CARDIAC, and they had to pay someone to take it when it was time to upgrade, and their dad killed them when they got home

Do you see dead people?

I wonder how they can talk about it if they're dead.

[BucklingSpring]

I didn't count laptops, blackberries, A/V remotes and other things with button.

Can I consider my LS-430 steering wheel a keyboard as well?
It certainly has a load of buttons and switches

[bhtooefr]

*whoosh*

[keyb_gr]

Too many. I'd say about a dozen and change, err, parts.

Lessee - 3x BS (M), 3x MX black, 2x MX clear, 1x MX blue, 1x ML, 1x Alps white, 1x Alps black, 1x Acer, 1x Futaba, 3x MY (not including 1 parts donor), 1x rubber dome. That would be like... 18 working boards. Oh crap.

[phillip]

BTW it looks like Microsoft Home Server has become the next Microsoft Bob.  I was thinking of using my old Core Duo rig for one but the idiots dropped Drive Extender.

Yeah.  ****ing stupid of them to drop drive extender.

[False_Dmitry_II]

I've got

Canon  6311 (like an acer apparently)
Black Dell AT101
BS
AEKII
2 rubber dome (only counting ones that are actually owned by me, otherwise number would be much higher for the house)
2 laptops - so scissor switches.

[digitalleftovers]

I have 2 mechanicals (in my sig) plus a g15 v1 that is one step from the trash (or tear down) and a Logitech Wave Pro.  The wave is my couch board, so it can stay for now.

I would like some novelty boards, or additional ones to put different key sets on.  Since I don't have a lot of extra space (or cash) I think I'm sticking with only owning boards with specific purposes for now.

[BucklingSpring]

*whoosh*

Marty Feldman was a comic genius.

Thanks for reminding that to me.

[drsauced]

1x Model M (who ever needs more than one?)
1x Deck Legend (MX Black)
1x Filco 104 (MX Brown)
3x rubber domes (Dell, MS, one 82-key something)

I need to buy more keyboards.  I would snap up that MX Red Filco TKL on Amazon if I hadn't just got two parking tickets.

[BucklingSpring]

At the John Cleese concert he showed a clip from when he worked with Marty - great stuff you can't get on YouTube.

Lucky you! Is the back side of the T-Shirt real or you made it up?
Anyway, you scared me for a second. I honnestly tought he was dead.

I really like him too.

[bettablue]

I was 18 , so I just thought it was mosltly fun.  All the money I spent on that computer and it's all gone.  The money and the computer are all gone.  But at the time, I did pretty well.  Hell, I never even knew how these things really worked internally.  All I knew how to do was write programs in BASIC.  Now, sadly, I have no idea where to begin.  I only wish I had stayed in programming.