On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:19:48 +0100, 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:

I still use IBM Model M keyboards. The cats use the provided walkway at
the back of the keyboard...

http://www.dansdata.com/images/clicky/ballboard1024.jpg

I've not seen a clean one of those for years. Must get the pressure
washer out.

Mine's due a clean, too. Never had cats on it, but one of the dogs often
jumps up into my lap and then flops his head down onto it. Thankfully I
suspect that IBM engineers forsaw that, and dog skull impacts formed part
of the original product testing :-)

I think I got my PS/2-USB convertor from clickykeyboards.com. I do have
a PS/2 socket on the PC, but every so often the keyboard would stop
responding when plugged into it; I wonder if it's a current-draw issue.
No problems via the USB widget, though.

cheers

Jules