On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:39:16 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bob Eager
saying something like:

this 'ere Model M and give everything a good
clean; the wife's machine has some modern Logitech Sponge-O-Matic
thing that doesn't look like it'll come apart easily (but then as it's
modern junk it'll probably break long before it needs a clean ;-)

Yep, I have two Model Ms to clean this week. They have both been in
daily use since 1992, and cleaned every few years....!

1994 I got this one and it was attached to an old 286 machine that came
out of a typesetter's shop. Gawd knows how many characters it's actually
typed.

If it's a Model M, it should have the manufacture date on the bottom...!



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