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Do-It-Yourself Steampunk Keyboard

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Who said there's no use for your old IBM "M Series" keyboards anymore? This creative fellow shows us step by step how to convert the keyboards of yesteryear into keyboards of an even further distant, fictional time. H. G. Wells would be proud."

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  1. Keyboard by MattSparkes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been looking for one of those for ages, I want to use it standard. Modern keyboards just don't make the right noise...

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    Matthew Sparkes
  2. Re:but by value_added · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But does it still make that super loud clicky noise when you type?

    Even if it doesn't, it would definitely go a long way to training people to avoid the carpal-tunnel-inducing-typo-generating bad habit of resting their wrists on the keyboard.

    For anyone who never learned to type in a typing class on a real typewriter, I'll point out that most everyone who finishes such a course ends up typing at about 90wpm. I enrolled on a lark (to meet girls, actually, but they all ended up resenting me because I typed faster than they did), but the habits drilled into me I keep to this day.

    Take that Mavis Beacon. Now get off my lawn.

    Great looking keyboard at any rate. What's missing is a big magnifying screen like those found in Terry Gilliam's Brazil. And some pneumatic tubes. Gotta have pneumatic tubes -- you can impress your friends and family and have fun scaring the shit out of the dog at the same time.