Dell AT102W
Salvaged yesterday from a computer graveyard out’ the back of the International Manufacturing Centre was a Dell AT102W computer keyboard. It is the single nicest keyboard I have ever laid fingers on. The audible clacks accompanying each keystroke give a reassuring mechanical feel to the thing: unlike regular, plebeian keyboards, it feels like a machine engineered to do one thing, and that thing well. Tank would be an apt comparison: it weighs almost as much as my by no means light laptop, Vera. And the keycaps are a bloody pain to remove and rearrange. Doing so was a two-person job, Steve with bent-paperclip hooks and me providing leverage. He got my old lilac and grey Sun Type 6 as a reward and promptly got the extra function keys functioning.
153 Ways That Things Can Go Wrong and Then Awesomely Right, or Inventive Solutions to Problems That Don't Exist
