"You do WHAT with Mechanical keyboards?"

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So I go to Ft.Worth every few months for assistance with my Epilepsy medication. Located adjacent to that clinic, is a resale shop that has a bit of everything; including a small corner dedicated to getting low cost computers to the underprivileged so they can look for jobs online. There are some for sale, others reserved for the program. I went to the older, blind man (low vision?) listening to the TV and working on the systems.
I ask the man "do you ever have any donations of mechanical keyboards?" He asked me
"why do you want a mechanical keyboard?" I gave him my reasons for wanting an IBM model M.
"well, no they are incompatible with modern systems; Had a box of fifty yesterday, we just throw them away. "

...I had not actually cried in 25 years. I am now back to 2 days.

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Can only hope he thinks any old white IBM is a model M...

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Seeing as how he is blind/low vision I doubt that is the case.

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Yeah, I assume that he thought you meant ps2 keyboards in general, not specifically model M.

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My Mobo still has two PS2 ports. I really want gaming keyboards for PS2 ports... (Does anyone know any good ones?)

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Well, we actually got into the conversation about the buckling springs and how he liked them back in the day.
we even spoke about PS/2 connectivity. The guy was not stupid, He was simply uninformed of the niche market that is MKs. I was still like

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this has shattered my manly heart... T_T

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Thanks. I'm now genuinely interested to know if that would work =(

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turn that frown upside down sailor, on the double!

;)