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Re:User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people o... by squarefoot on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @07:54AM (#17715072)
My IBM model M I got in the mid-late 90s has a "Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2.2" sticker in the area over the function keys. That should make it about 28 years old and not a single key ever failed. Missing Windows keys are a nice feature also :)
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Re:User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people o... by etcet on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @07:57PM (#17720657)
It should have the manufacture date on the bottom. Mine's got a month until its 29th birthday.
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Re:User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people o... by squarefoot on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:43PM (#17720899)
The sticker underneath mine is damaged but readable: made in UK and the date is "1990-09-05", then other numbers one of which a lot bigger which could be a serial number (1391404). I have another model M somewhere, probably a bit younger than this one; they were throwing it away from a govt server room I worked in many moons ago because it didn't fit in a rack drawer. The crap they put there probably broke in less than 2 years.
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