Got a new keyboard at work.
Why am I blogging about an old-style looking beige coloured keyboard? It has only 104 keys — no media keys, no volume knob, no wireless, no USB hub, no card reader, no ergonomic layout — not even palm rest! It’s a Unicomp SpaceSaver with a USB plug. It is a buckling spring keyboard similar to the original IBM Model M Keyboard. If you are an oldie who has used an IBM PC back in the ’80s, now you know what I am talking about!
Clink. Clink. Clink Clink Clink. Bink. (Sound of spacebar)
“Bwahahaha!!!”
My last model M-like buckling spring keyboard, which I brought to work back in the late 90′s, somehow “disappeared” when we moved offices. I am now a happy coder again :)
Ah, I think I remember.
But yours isn’t vintage enough. I remember using those which only had 10 Function keys arranged as two columns x five rows on the left side of the keyboard…
I have that as well — our first IBM XT compatible with 4.77Mhz 8088 CPU, and its 83 keys keyboard with an AT connector!
I do have a sentimental attachment to all old things IBM. And so I may be buying an original model M.
Way, way back, my first job out of school was w/ Big Blue… back when there were two main divisions: “DP”, data processing/the computer group; and “OP”, Office Products/Selectric typewriters, dictation equipment, and copiers. I worked for the OP division in New Haven, CN. in the early seventies.
I’m concerned that the “clicking” model M will aggravate my wife. Our computers are both is the office room…