Re: Keyboard wear

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:15

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Me <ch@mail.nu> wrote in message
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> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com>

>> Everyone who has commented has said that they
>> all wear like that except the ancient IBM keyboards.

> That is correct. The IBM model M I'm using has a date of Aug 1984
> on the bottom, came with the PS1 we had at work at one point. I bought
> a new one in 1992 or so just to see if i could get one not as "clickey"
> sounding, but it lasted about 6 months before the "spring" (rubber
> injected molded buttons) under the most used keys wore out so I
> went back to using this one. I bought a half dozen old ps1's for $10
> each at one point to just to stock up on keyboards though looking
> back that was a waste of money since i'm still using the original one....

Unfortunately I've changed over to USB now,
mainly for the convenience with the KVM.

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