Do you wear out your keyboards?

Dalek Dave

You realise that to operate it you require a tweed jacket, a doe-skin waistcoat, a cravat and a pocket watch?

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Johnny J

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Johnny J

And live in Luton? :sigh:

Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932

Dalek Dave

Got it in one! :)

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charlieg

lol

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Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

I type the letters off in about 18 months. I usually go to new contracts before then so I usually get new keyboards all the time. But AFAIK, they all still work. (If you know how to type)

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Mike Hankey

I go through one about every 2 years. It's not that we pound on them or abuse them they are just junk and made to break down to keep the economy strong. (Yeah right)

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lewax00

Luckily I have most of that! :-D (I've got a steampunk costume, been collecting various pieces about a year now)

Slacker007

charlieg wrote:

Any of you beat your keyboards to death?

I break them. I posted this a while back and the community thought I should be fired for damaging company equipment. :)

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Scott Serl

No, I buy high quality keyboards: daskeyboard[^] I buy the "silent" (not silent at all, but quieter than the clicky ones) professional (has letters on the keys) version. It weighs as much as a laptop and they last a looooong time.

Brisingr Aerowing

Awesome! I am going to make one when I have the time!

public class SysAdmin : Employee
{

 public override void DoWork(IWorkItem workItem)
 {
      if (workItem.User.Type == UserType.NoLearn){
         throw new NoIWillNotFixYourComputerException(new Luser(workItem.User));
      }else{
           base.DoWork(workItem);
      }
 }

}

Brisingr Aerowing

:laugh: Cool!

public class SysAdmin : Employee
{

 public override void DoWork(IWorkItem workItem)
 {
      if (workItem.User.Type == UserType.NoLearn){
         throw new NoIWillNotFixYourComputerException(new Luser(workItem.User));
      }else{
           base.DoWork(workItem);
      }
 }

}

Lost User

And a deer stalker! I can just see Sherlock Holmes sat there updating his Facebook status after he's chucked Moriarty over the Reichenbach Falls.

Gary Wheeler

I have the distinction of having once destroyed the keyboard for a DEC VT-100[^] terminal through, er, assertive typing.

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Michael Kingsford Gray

My (ancient) injection-moulded Hewlett-Packard keyboards are still working flawlessly since 1979! But these were/are military-grade beasts.

Harrison Pratt

Find an old IBM keyboard with PS2 connector, buy a PS2/UBS adapter and you have a great clickity-clickity keyboard that lasts forever. May not be so great if you don't work alone!

BrainiacV

Gee on mine it's AWSD ;P

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Stefan_Lang

I do have a keyboard where the keys formerly showing 'W' 'A' 'S' and 'D' are now completely black. The other keys were in varying states of legibility. I suspect painted-on key labels don't mix well with eating peanuts and playing... A long time ago the keyboard of my AMIGA 2000 crashed on the stone floor, resulting in the [enter] and several other keys breaking off. I tried to glue them back on, with varying degrees of success, but they kept coming off. Since the AMIGA keyboard was non-standard (and quite eypensive), and at the time C=ommodore was already out of business, getting a replacement was difficult. I eventually gave up and got myself a PC. I did regret the switch, but at least I never had any more trouble getting replacement keyboards...

charlieg

Definitely the older ones are more rugged. I just happen to like the tactile feel of the *older* style of Dell keyboards. Think logitech keyboards and you know what I mean. Unfortunately, there seems to be a move to chiclet style keyboards, which I despise.

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BrainiacV

I have old Gateway 2000 AnyKey keyboards on all my computers (except my laptops) and I program the keyboard to do repetitive tasks. Now I have worn out the surface on my laptop's right-click bar and repainted it with some nail polish I bought for that task and the nail polish has lasted longer than the original surface has.

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