Do-It-Yourself Steampunk Keyboard

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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Lonely?

[ReidMaynard]

Dear Jake's Wife,

I'll be over by 6pm, as usual.

Love,

Horny Neighbor

Moo

[Chacham]

Sheesh, what ever happened to good Star trek shows? One that could be scripted by a team of money, and acted by Shakespearian actors. Well, i'll give it a shot, the M Keyboard just have a way of evoking that nostalgic feeling in all of us. At this point i am typing nonsense just to get around the filter, so please just skip until the next paragraph. If only i had a heisenberg compensator, i could post this comment without any of the inane chatter up here. Please just skip this. I mean now. Just stop reading this, because i am only typing it to get around the filter and not saying anything important like the answer to your all-important question and that x=5 and r is a constant referring to all the tea in china. If the filter is looking for forty words, i'm just about there, but this is all so silly anyway, and i only want to post this because i spent a few minutes writing it.

*cue wordless music*
Spock: It's a new keyboard xt84723.
Kirk: What class is it?
Spock: It's Class-M. Suitable for humanoid use. It just seems to "click" with them. *raises eyebrow*
Kirk: Beam it up.
Scotty: I'm trying cap'n, but i just don't have the power.
Kirk: OK, when can you have it.
Scotty: In twelve years.
Kirk: The Klingons are coming, you have three seconds.
Scotty: Okay.
*two seconds pass and it appears*
Uhura: The letters are in Swahili!
Checkov: Nonsense! The letter are pristine cyrilic.
Keyboard (in words on viewscreen): All your starship are belong to us!
Spock: It appears to be typing in Vulcan. I suggest that we destroy it at once.
*thinks*
Spock: Try hitting the button marked "control", "alt", and "delete" at the same time.
Kirk: Bones, go for it.
McCoy: Darn it Jim, i'm a Doctor not a key puncher.
Kirk: Scotty, go for it.
Scotty: A keyboard? How quaint.
*three red-shirts die trying to push buttons*
Kirk: Let's do it ourselves.
*Kirk, Spock, and Checkov press the buttons*
The end.

*cue wordless music*
Data: Coming up on new keyboard xt84723.
Picard: What class is it?
Data: It's Class-M. Suitable for humanoid use. It just seems to "click" with them. *tries to grin*
Troi: Stop it! I can't comunicate with it.
*Troi cries*
Picard: Beam it up.
Geordi: I can try to, but i will have to reroute all power from life supports systems to do it.
Picard: Go ahead, we must see what this new keyboard can teach us.
*two seconds pass and it appears*
Beverly: It's like nothing i've ever seen before!
Riker: It looks like we just gopt a new interface.
*smiles smugly*
Keyboard (in words on viewscreen): All your starship are belong to us!
Data: It appears to be typing in binary. I suggest that we put a forcefield around it at once.
Data: Try hitting the button marked "control", "alt", and "delete" at the same time.
Picard: Number 1, you have the bridge.
Slashdot poster: In Soviet Russia, bridge has you.
Picard: Data, Worf, you're with me.
*Worf stares at keyboard and growls*
Data: If we try a positronic pulse rotated to the third degree and bounce it off a stationic wave, it should be able to neutralize.
Picard: Do it.
*keyboard evolves into a new life form*
The end.

*cue wordless music*
Dax: A new keyboard xt84723 just appeared out of the wormhole.
Kira: It's a Cardiassian vessels, they used them during the occupatrion. Let's destroy it.
Sisko: Kira, you can;t just go around destroying old keyboard just because you don't like them.
*Kira stares*
Sisko: Am i clear:
Kira: Absolutely clear.
Odo: Fine, just don't let it on the promenade.
Dax: It's Class-M. Suitable for humanoid use. It just seems to "click" with them. *tries not to grin*
Sisko: Kira, welcome our new guest and try to slow it down while we figure out what is going on.
O'Brien: I can't exlain it, but that keyboard is using up all of our power.
Sisko: Options?
Sax: If we could just use a quantum modulated beam, we sho