MCW, Model Ms can be gotten for $30 on ebay without much difficulty, and keycaps are nowhere near $100 a set.

The Model M13 and M15s are different, but sometimes you get lucky. (Got my M13 off of the to-be-surplussed pile at the college where I work, and my ’93 M from a closet at the same institution.

This is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. The IBM Model M is already a rare bird, but this moron here goes ahead and destroys one. Those keycaps – $100 a set from reputable dealers! And here he paints over them. Do us all a favor and just take the keycaps off of your model M if you have to ruin it. Sell them on eBay to those of us who want to preserve the original look and need replacements. Or better yet, just use your Model M without the keycaps and skip the painting step all together!

Cookies = not awesome? You aren’t buying the right cookies :wink:

No, that’s a different kind of awesome. :P

Wait… Cookies? I would say tasty… I’m not sure if I would classify them as awesome thought.

I can think of things that look more awesome than a blank keyboard

Many of them involve cookies, naked girls or some combination of the two…

Oh, come on. Painting keys is the whole point here. Nothing looks more awesome than a keyboard full of blank keys. ;)

A few years ago, I also painted a keyboard black,, but just the upper half of the plastic casing. I also did my computer mouse.
It actually looked pretty neat, and I stil could see the keys :P
That was in my 486 days, running Windows 3.1. Ah, memories :)

I love the price difference on that link you posted. The blank key one costs $259 and the bigger regular version with the arrow keys costs $69. :|

Personally I like my CTRL in the bottom left corner and the Caps Lock below Tab. But I guess that’s what I’m used to. I wouldn’t be able to deal without the arrow keys either.

Yeah, I could paint a UNIX keyboard, but I treasure the ones I can find! The only ps2 style I have found is the Happy Hacker, but they are missing other keys I use (cursor keys!). I have a few Sun USB UNIX keyboards, but like I said, I treasure them too much.

I guess I wouldn’t be cool with an old layout anyways . . .

Well, you could always use a unix keyboard and paint it. :P

Btw, unix keyboards always mess me up. I’d be typing along, and all of a sudden everything is in all caps cause I accidentally hit Caps Lock instead of Ctrl or Shift. :mrgreen: