Just saved this little guy from storage

[sajunky]

Upgraded yet to DOS 6.22? It has DRVSPACE so you can get another 10-15 MB on the hard disk.

Nah. Stacker.

 

[Urist]

Nice blast from the past, Urist. Beautifully cleaned up.

What switches inside?

A few years ago I succumbed and bought a genuine buckling soring from the Model M Factory in Lexington. They're still going. Now called Unicomp.

See this thread.


Wow, a full meg of RAM. After forking out for a Hercy card I could only afford to upgrade my AT to 512kB.

Upgraded yet to DOS 6.22? It has DRVSPACE so you can get another 10-15 MB on the hard disk.

thanks,

This one has white ALPS. apparently slightly less desirable than the blue variety. I still like it.

 

[cerebus]

I had a keyboard like that for a while. In the end it proved too large for practical use, and the lack of a Start button got on my nerves. Better off with a modern mechanical or scissor-switch based keyboard

 

[animal531]

In this case not gaming. 2-key rollover means it'll be absolute garbage for gaming (eg if you're moving forward diagonally to the left using W+A and press space to jump nothing will happen).

This keyboard really just comes down to nostalgia, it'll be pretty annoying to actually use (at least if you frequently use keyboard shortcuts).

I don't think the keys are all the same. From what I remember from my olden days of gaming, the keycodes for some characters were a lot shorter than others, so you could press more of the keys at the same time. For example qwe/asd should be a lot shorter than big numpad 789/456 etc.

Duke Nukem 3d etc still shipped with a keyboard utility that just output the scan codes, so you could check if the keys you were using were blocking each other.

 

[midnightcaller]

Wow, a full meg of RAM. After forking out for a Hercy card I could only afford to upgrade my AT to 512kB.

Upgraded yet to DOS 6.22? It has DRVSPACE so you can get another 10-15 MB on the hard disk.

@OP : sorry if I hijack your thread.

Arthur : I could only afford to upgrade RAM in 1993 when at university. I had to save for months to afford the RAM. It has a 16Mhz CPU.

The PC had DOS 6.22. I used it all the way to final year.
A friend from engineering and I, plugged in a serial card. Connected to a massive DC motor (about the size of a small car) and managed to write a program to startup and control the revs on the motor.

 

[Arthur]

@OP : sorry if I hijack your thread.

Arthur : I could only afford to upgrade RAM in 1993 when at university. I had to save for months to afford the RAM. It has a 16Mhz CPU.

The PC had DOS 6.22. I used it all the way to final year.
A friend from engineering and I, plugged in a serial card. Connected to a massive DC motor (about the size of a small car) and managed to write a program to startup and control the revs on the motor.

Ah, memories of high tech!
That's some impressive interfacing there. How powerful our computers were!

I can understand you had to wait and save to upgrade.

I remember very well in 1986 (two years after the IBM PC AT with 80286 was launched) when the price of genuine IBM RAM fell to R10 a kilobyte. For the juniors here, that's R1024 per megabyte in then's money, which is around R10 447 in today's money, according to the inflationcalc.co.za site. Per megabyte. If you don't know what that is, there are 1024 of them in a gig . So the price in now's money was around R11-million per gig of RAM. Clone RAM was a third cheaper.

Bleh. Kids today have the tech so cheap.

Again, sorry for deflection, OP. But then this is a nostalgia thread.

 

[crumbs]

Nice find there. I recently got an old Model M that is in great condition. I barely had to clean any muck off of it.

The buckling springs are ridiculously loud but are the most satisfying switches I've ever typed on. The keys are a bit heavy for me to use the keyboard for extended periods of time, my daily board has Cherry MX reds which are pretty much the lightest you can find.

Here's the sticker that I found on the inside of the keyboard. I think it's amazing that this thing is ~30 years old and looks almost brand new.