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Annoying Robot

02:52

I've recently purchased the Spacesaver M Black Buckling Spring USB keyboard (still didn't get it due to shipping delays) and was wondering whether anyone has a real original IBM keyboard. The official Unicomp seller: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/SFNT What is so special about the IBM keyboard t...

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Joel Reyes Noche

04:30

Sir Clive Sinclair recently passed away.

bbc.com/news/science-environment-29985976

arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/…

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Annoying Robot

08:14

Q: Cleaning buckling spring keyboards

How do you clean keyboards with buckling springs? I have mentioned in an earlier question that I've recently bought an IBM keyboard but how do you clean a keyboard with buckling springs? I only know how to clean keyboards with membrane and Cherry Mx.

keyboards ibm maintenance

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Annoying Robot

22:40

Q: Which versions of StuffIt introduced backwards-incompatible changes to the file format?

In order to help people who want to integration-test tools which shell out to The Unarchiver's lsar and unar utilities, I'm trying to build a legally clean repository of test archives in StuffIt SIT and SitX formats. (Sort of like how Cisco pays the license fees for you if you use their prebuilt ...