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|    Dave Drum to Sean Dennis    |
|    IBM PS/2    |
|    01 May 19 06:54:00    |
      TZUTC: -0400       MSGID: 64.fido-classicc@1:3634/12 212ec2fd       REPLY: 1:18/200@fidonet 5cc85cf8       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux Apr 30 2019 GCC 7.3.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.07-Linux r3.114 Apr 30 2019 GCC 7.3.0       -=> Sean Dennis wrote to Dave Drum <=-               DD> AFAIK the Model M keyboard is still produced in Lexington, KY - more-        DD> or-less just down the street from the (former?) IBM R&D facility.               SD> It is. The company I mentioned is Unicomp at pckeyboard.com -- you can        SD> still buy brand new Model Ms in spirit.              IIRC Unicomp is the result of a group of Lexmark suits buying Itty Bitty        Machine Co's licence, design and production facilities rather than see       production end in favour of the cheaper (in every sense) cheesy Chinese        rubber-dome (squishy) examples that the bean counters were dictating.              Back in the mid-1990s if memory serves.                     ... Had a job as a lumberjack. Couldn't hack it. Got the axe.       --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49        * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12)       SEEN-BY: 1/19 120 123 15/0 2 16/0 18/0 200 19/36 34/999 90/1 104/57       SEEN-BY: 106/201 116/18 116 120/331 544 123/0 25 50 115 120 130 131       SEEN-BY: 123/140 150 755 128/2 135/300 153/7715 203/0 218/700 221/0       SEEN-BY: 222/2 226/16 17 229/354 426 452 728 981 1014 230/150 152       SEEN-BY: 240/1120 2100 5138 5832 5853 249/206 317 250/1 261/38 100       SEEN-BY: 266/512 267/155 275/100 282/1031 1056 291/1 111 310/31 317/3       SEEN-BY: 320/119 219 322/0 757 340/400 342/13 200 393/68 396/45 633/280       SEEN-BY: 712/848 801/161 189 2320/105 2452/250 2454/119 3634/0 12       SEEN-BY: 3634/15 24 27 50 119 5020/1042 5053/58       PATH: 3634/12 261/38 320/219 240/5832 229/426           |
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