Ive been using the same keyboard and mouse for the last 12 years.

We are as one.

But too many late night wine spillages and clumsy eating mean sticking keys and the mouse has a tendency to go off on it’s own sometimes. It’s old wireless tech.

So the conundrum is do I revive a well-loved bit of kit by prising all the keys off and giving them a soak in hot soapy water, then get to it with the cotton buds on the board…

or

Take a wild leap into the unknown with a new wireless board and mouse and just learn to use a new one – keys are never in the same place. Keypress weight will be different. Akin to making love to a woman other than one’s long standing wife…..I imagine….. 😉

I cant be the only sad sack in here who is ashamedly wedded to his keyboard? 😳

geek

lol

embrace another woman change

I hate new keyboards/mice. I’d revive the old one.

embrace change

But what if she it feels all wrong? What if she it doesnt respond to my finger touch as Im used to?

Akin to making love to a woman other than one’s long standing wife…..I imagine…..

I’d have thought not personally… 😀

But what if she it feels all wrong? What if she it doesnt respond to my finger touch as Im used to?

end of the world, disaster, nothing will ever be the same, you’ll be on the dole soon, why why why, or maybe it’ll be fine…

Im not sure I could take the rejection.

I bought a Microsoft wireless arch keyboard like this one recently … not bad.

p/s: think you might be able to get one with the mouse …

Can’t help on the mouse front but on the keyboard front, there can be only one…..

Actually any mechanical switch key board to be honest, but the IBM model M is the classic. I don’t have one but I have used one for an extend period of time and they are nice, positive and tactile, but not hard work.

Ive got to get some homeplugs so am in scan.co.uk now, and looking at keyboards…

I think I shall have a go at cleaning this one instead. I can surely squeeze a few more years out of her it.

TheBrick – Member
Can’t help on the mouse front but on the keyboard front, there can be only one…..

Actually any mechanical switch key board to be honest, but the IBM model M is the classic. I don’t have one but I have used one for an extend period of time and they are nice, positive and tactile, but not hard work.

Great keyboards!
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http://pckeyboard.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=b6ad81e80d07f168124639d8819adc71&Store_Code=PCK&Screen=PLST

Great keyboards!
Clack clack clack clack clack clack clack

Indeed – I have one for work, plus a spare ( not that I’ll probably need it ) and one at home – made in 1992, and now just nicely run in. 🙂

http://www.designbuzz.com/entry/7-expensive-keyboards-effortlessness-computing/

Are they worth owt them IBM ones? I have a bunch in a box at work that were retired but kept as ‘in case’….

No not worth nowt, I’ll buy them all for £5.

In all seriousness if they are working model m, uk layout I would buy one, maybe two off you depending on the price.