(Additional processing power provided by the Intel i486 DX)

    • @[email protected]
      9•8 months ago

      But it’s nothing special, those things were built like absolute tanks. You could kill someone with an early model M and then go right back to typing.

        • FireWire400OPEnglish
          1•8 months ago

          Mind posting a picture of it as well? I’m kinda curious as to how it looks and what you’ve done to save it.

          But seriously, who the fuck would not only smoke around their computer but put out the cigarette on their keyboard?

    • FireWire400OPEnglish
      6•8 months ago

      It does have a few battle scars but everything still works great and the keys are still very clicky

      • @[email protected]
        3•8 months ago

        How do you deal with the multiple keystroke issues? If I remember correctly, it’s only able to have a few simultaneous keystrokes before it doesn’t recognize it.

        • FireWire400OPEnglish
          5•7 months ago

          You mean the lack of n-key rollover? To be honest, that’s never been an issue for me and I do a fair bit of gaming.

    • Subverb
      1•8 months ago

      I have a IBM Model M from 1984 as my daily driver.

      CTRL-ESC works, I actually prefer it.

      • FireWire400OPEnglish
        1•8 months ago

        So yours is almost 40 years old, nice. It’s amazing how far technology has moved in that time and here we are still using these ancient keyboards… they have seen some things we wouldn’t believe.

  • @[email protected]
    3•8 months ago

    I’d have thought it would have yellowed more than that, did you have to treat it to make it look so good?

    • FireWire400OPEnglish
      2•8 months ago

      Surprisingly not, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a yellowed Model M (or earlier Model F for that matter).

  • lorez
    2•8 months ago

    We have the same exact brief…ehm…keyboard.

    • FireWire400OPEnglish
      1•8 months ago

      I wish more modern keyboards had them as it’s actually quite handy. I use it more for decoration purposes most of the time but it can be a real live saver if you keep misplacing smaller tools

  • @257m
    1•8 months ago

    Man I wish I had a curled up wire for keyboard and mouse… My wires are way too long and always get in the way.