LGR Oddware - IBM Model M13 Trackpoint Keyboard
Added 2016-03-26 04:51:18 +0000 UTC
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No worries, I fully understand. BTW, not lying, it's the same keyboard I've used for 20 years. Someday I'll get a motherboard without a PS/2 port and be screwed.
Jim Leonard
2016-03-31 20:35:21 +0000 UTCYou're an odd dude, Jim ;) But I really don't blame you, this is a phenomenal keyboard! I hesitated putting it in Oddware, but the title gets the views, hehe
LGR
2016-03-31 20:31:10 +0000 UTCDude. The M13 isn't "oddware", it's MY WEAPON OF CHOICE
Jim Leonard
2016-03-31 20:19:19 +0000 UTCI was not aware. So many memories of playing that inside a Pizza Hut as a child.
Christopher Coleman
2016-03-29 22:37:57 +0000 UTCThe keyboard that came with my dell optiplex running windows 98 back in like 2000 came with a near exact copy of the model m just dell branded turns out!
Still Haven't Shown Up
2016-03-29 16:48:27 +0000 UTCI didn't know it was on PC.
Zabe
2016-03-28 17:25:33 +0000 UTCIrony: I can't stand trackpads either. XP
Kris Asick
2016-03-27 22:43:15 +0000 UTCMidway one of my favorites so good to know! Too bad The Grid never made it to PC.
Princess Amber
2016-03-27 21:28:08 +0000 UTCThank you! I spent a whole minute lining it up perfectly :D
LGR
2016-03-27 21:09:41 +0000 UTCIt is surprising, yeah. I've also seen some with built-in trackpads and trackballs, but this is the only one I know of with a trackpoint. Man, that's a lot of "tracks"
LGR
2016-03-27 21:09:23 +0000 UTCA surprising amount of Midway arcade games made it to PC like that! I didn't know about Area 51 being one of them until I found that box, hehe
LGR
2016-03-27 21:08:38 +0000 UTCA well-made Model M is just top-notch, it's amazing how right they got it the first try.
LGR
2016-03-27 21:07:31 +0000 UTCThat makes a lot of sense!
LGR
2016-03-27 21:07:07 +0000 UTCYeah, for work monitors I want as wiiiiiiide as possible. The more workspace the better!
LGR
2016-03-27 21:06:58 +0000 UTCBalls yeah. It's a great conversion, too!
LGR
2016-03-27 21:05:25 +0000 UTCI have an episode planned about the PS/2 line of computers that spawned the port!
LGR
2016-03-27 21:05:10 +0000 UTCYou get used to them, but yeah, I was so happy when they were replaced outright with trackpads
LGR
2016-03-27 21:04:55 +0000 UTCIt is indeed! An official Bethesda product from the UK
LGR
2016-03-27 21:04:40 +0000 UTCIs that a Fallout beer?
Justin Dotson
2016-03-27 19:04:15 +0000 UTCOh geeze, those things... I absolutely can't stand them. In fact, I actually remember commercials from when IBM first introduced the feature onto laptops and I couldn't help but think to myself, "How in the world can they replicate true mouse movement with a tiny little eraser nub?" When I got an old laptop with such a thing in it a little over a decade ago I found out the terrifying truth: "They couldn't." The one on my laptop actually has a centring issue which seems to be at the firmware level where if you move it for too long without returning it to centre it forgets where centre is and starts drifting. It also got sticky and nasty-feeling with age, but then it's not an IBM laptop, it's a Toshiba laptop, so maybe they just couldn't replicate the same function and feel of the IBM ones?
Kris Asick
2016-03-27 15:56:36 +0000 UTCI would love Tech Tales about the PS2-port. :)
Pontus
2016-03-27 10:23:12 +0000 UTCOh god Area 51 *drool*
Christopher Coleman
2016-03-26 16:08:50 +0000 UTCnope, remember Hotel Mario on the CD-i?
A Person Who Is Crying
2016-03-26 12:10:11 +0000 UTCMy workplace is completely populated with ThinkPad desktops and laptops. I have my own work laptop and it does have that special red trackpoint nubbin thing. I played for it for like, a minute, but immediately defaulted to the regular trackpad because that's what I'm used to. I also have a wireless keyboard and monitor, too, in case I preferred the desktop setup. The keyboard does look similar to this... I'll have to look closer at it on Monday and compare it to the one featured in this video! I just use the keyboard on the laptop, though. The monitor isn't much use to me either because the monitor is 4:3 and the laptop is not, which is kind of annoying. >.> I prefer 4:3 for retro gaming, not for work-related things. lol
Lindsay Michelle
2016-03-26 11:59:55 +0000 UTCThat's gotta be the only Mario game with a Mario voice not done by Charles Martinet?
RetroSwim
2016-03-26 11:27:05 +0000 UTCAs far as I know it was designed for server rooms where space is few and so no place for a mouse (I wish we had those things at my sidejob at the Airport (packing for DHL), those cheap shitpickles we have their are just shit!).
Ezydenias
2016-03-26 08:35:53 +0000 UTCThat's one sweet keyboard, I wouldn't mind finding one to keep with my modern desktop, if I were to ensure color matching. I've been using the Model M lately with my desktop, and haven't once thought of switching to anything else. Also, I see The Indie Box games! :D
ReeseRiverson
2016-03-26 08:00:53 +0000 UTCCool game choices for testing this keyboard :P Never seen the PC port of Area 51, didn't even know it existed. Cool video, and very nice looking keyboard...
Princess Amber
2016-03-26 07:59:46 +0000 UTCYay! New oddware! I loves me some oddware, oh yeah!
Troy Wilkins
2016-03-26 06:36:49 +0000 UTCOn one hand… that black is amazing. On the other, I can see how the trackpoint would be potentially painful to interfere with. Still surprising they made a desktop keyboard with it though.
Rob Caporetto
2016-03-26 06:27:34 +0000 UTCBlack on black looks pretty sweet but I always hated those nubs!
Kevin Furr
2016-03-26 06:11:30 +0000 UTCDude that Model M->Model M13 transition was really well done.
mega
2016-03-26 06:04:09 +0000 UTC
