Mechanical Keyboards

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My IBM Model M from 1993 (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by FireWire400@lemmy.world to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

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[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No Super key would drive me nuts

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Some people map the caps lock key to super.

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

thats what im doing and its great

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No need. CTRL-ESC.

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

too complicated for my smooth brain

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

CTRL-ESC works, I actually prefer it.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.