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Hey I found your comment by Jerry Whorebach 10/29/2009, 1:56am PDT
My first computer was a C64, bought in April 1987. By then the C64 had a different case design than the photo shown with this article. Here's what mine looked like:

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It came with the GEOS operating system, that mimicked the Apple OS at that time. I used it for my business, which was publishing small booklets on military history topics. In 1990 I moved up to an IBM PC compatible (10 mHz in Turbo mode, 5.25" floppy drive and no hard drive; added a 40 MB hard drive the following year for $250) ... ah, the "fun" of tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys to get a program to load into memory. My first Windows PC didn't come until late 1993 (33 mHz, 200 MB hard drive); within three years I was building my own.

And I HATE black keyboards! Or any black computer hardware. Or any black electronics hardware. Why? Because they show the dust - which is light colored. I have an Epson inkjet printer that is mostly black; the top is shiny black plastic and attracts dust like a magnet. I have to wipe it off with a damp cloth every day, nothing else works. I've tried anti-static wipes and sprays and still have to clean it every day. I let it go more than a day and it looks disgusting (I have a touch of OCD, if you haven't guessed; I also have asthma so the dust is an issue for me and even with a large, expensive HEPA air cleaner the dust still builds up pretty fast). I always try to buy silver/gray colored hardware but it's getting harder andharder. My LCD monitor, keyboard and computer case are silver/gray. My flatbed scanner has a partially silver case except the top is dark gray. The laser printer is a mix of light and dark gray (this one makes some sense as the dark gray areas are those that would most likely get dirty from toner and such that would show up on the light colors). The dust still builds up just as fast on the light colored hardware, but it doesn't show up like it does on dark colored hardware, so I don't have to clean it every single day.
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The Keyboard Thread by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/28/2009, 5:53pm PDT NEW
    I've gone back to wired by Lizard_King 10/28/2009, 6:43pm PDT NEW
        I wish they could make a mouse with a proper scroll wheel by Entropy Stew 10/29/2009, 2:42pm PDT NEW
    Just read this last night (semirelated) by Vested Id 10/29/2009, 1:02am PDT NEW
        Hey I found your comment by Jerry Whorebach 10/29/2009, 1:56am PDT NEW
    Re: The Keyboard Thread by The Happiness Engine 10/29/2009, 2:42am PDT NEW
    I vastly prefer generic OEM keyboards with standard layout and no multimedia key by Eurotrash 10/29/2009, 3:19am PDT NEW
    Mechanical switch keyboards are beer resistant, like yours truly. by Worm 10/29/2009, 5:08am PDT NEW
    Re: The Keyboard Thread by motherfuckerfoodeater 10/29/2009, 8:10am PDT NEW
    I downloaded the typing of the dead demo but still didn't install it yet :( NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/29/2009, 1:04pm PDT NEW
    I'd get an apple keyboard if they knew where to put the fn key :( by Entropy Stew 10/29/2009, 3:00pm PDT NEW
        Apple's full-size keyboard, with the keypad, has proper 'fn' placement. by Mood: Perplexed 10/29/2009, 8:49pm PDT NEW
    do any of your keyboards have a large scroll barrel? by up with pod people 10/29/2009, 6:43pm PDT NEW
        You can get a mouse that has something like that right in between the buttons. ^ NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 10/29/2009, 9:20pm PDT NEW
            TOO SMALL TOO SLOW. by up with pod people 10/30/2009, 9:08am PDT NEW
                I have found the pgup and pgdn keys to come in handy in those situations. :( NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 10/30/2009, 9:13am PDT NEW
                    it just ain't the same man. don't knock the barrel until you've tried it by up with pod people 10/30/2009, 11:18am PDT NEW
                        they should build a contraption that makes walking FASTA NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/30/2009, 2:22pm PDT NEW
    tiny delicious rectangle by Bananadine 10/30/2009, 7:14am PDT NEW
 
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