A tale of two keyboards

It was the best of keyboards; it was the worst of keyboards ...

All right, that's not accurate. I saw this article extolling the virtues of the IBM Model M keyboard, vintage 1984. It made me think of my own "vintage" and downright indestructible keyboard, but mine was made by NEC, and I bought it new with an 386Sx, 16 Mhz NEC computer back in 1991. Yeah, it came with Windows 3.0, which I quickly upgraded to Windows 3.1. The computer is long gone, but the keyboard (nearly identical in appearance to the Model M, but not quite as heavy or with the same distinctive clicking sound) is still on my desktop, and still going strong 18 years later.

In the article the guy takes his keyboard apart, but I wouldn't have the guts to do that to mine. I'd be afraid I'd break it, and then where would I be? I probably do need to dust it out, but otherwise it's still fine. Yeah, I do like to brag about it, because I've used it a lot, and it has yet to have a single failure of any kind.

So there.