(Additional processing power provided by the Intel i486 DX)

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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.

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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?

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

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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.

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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.

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No Super key would drive me nuts

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Some people map the caps lock key to super.

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thats what im doing and its great

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No need. CTRL-ESC.

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

CTRL-ESC works, I actually prefer it.

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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.

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

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

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Cyrix gang rise up!

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Told you people would love it :D I’m glad she lives!

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