Comment by raudette
4 days ago
The author writes: "I discovered the IBM Model M in 1993 ... It took me many years to find one. I vividly remember the Craigslist ad for a dilapidated computer shop in a Toronto suburb. Inside I found piles of them, stacked six feet high. All of them had some kind of damage so I picked a few for $20 apiece and rebuilt one that looked pristine."
My Model M story:
I'd heard of the famous Model M for years.
I found a Model M in storage at a place I worked in 2004-2005 and started using it, loved it.
In 2006, I found one for my home PC at the Salvation Army Thrift Store on St Clair W at Christie in Toronto. I paid $20, and it worked!
I still have it, but stopped using it around 2010 - I was asked to use a quieter keyboard :(
I bought 2 M13s (one black, one beige, the one with the builtin track point) in Seattle thrift stores in the early 2000's, one was $5 and one was $10.
At one point, other copies were both $300 plus on ebay.
Sadly the black one has an intermittent issue with some of the keys where hits are doubled, but the beige one is still a daily driver.