On 2012-11-06, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The keyboard that came with my 8Mhz IBM PC-AT back in 1986 still gets >> used every day and still works as good as the day I unpacked it. >> It's an absolutely brilliant job of engineering and manufacturing. > > That's because it's a Model M - the best keyboard ever made IMNSHO > > You know you can still buy those?
Yea, Unicomp bought the rights and sells them for $80: http://www.pckeyboard.com/ I was thrilled when I saw they offered a "spacesaver M" model. I thought it was going to be a clone of the IBM 84-key model M "space saver" that IBM sold back in 87-89. Nope. It's the same desk-hogging size as a regular M -- not really sure where the "space saving" comes from. So now I'm really torn between the key-action of the M and the smaller size and built-in pointer of the IBM spacesaver II. Once upon a time, there was a Minnesota company called Omnikey that made excellent keyboards -- almost as good as the model M (and they had a dipswitch and extra keycaps that let you have a proper Control key). I think got bought by Northgate, and then went out of business back when all the other smaller clone manufactures... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Will it improve my at CASH FLOW? gmail.com
