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Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21
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eBay, not AliExpress. An original MS Natural Keyboard from 1994, new, in box.
I've opened it up and everything seems to be there, all in the original packaging, seemingly undisturbed. It's a thing of beauty.
I used one of these as my daily driver from February 1997 until May 2021. The Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard (2019) I replaced it with is the first model that comes close to the original layout so I thought I'd take the opportunity to upgrade before they phased it out and brought in something worse. The keys on the new model are already showing signs of wear and some of the markings are scratching off, so I certainly don't expect 24 years from it.
I shall now disassemble the second hand unit I got off TradeMe in 2003 (used as a work keyboard) and try the Retrobright process on it to see if it can be restored to a more pleasing colour, before doing the same with my 1997 example.
The MS Natural 4000 was my favourite keyboard of all time. I just wish they made a mechanical version of it *sigh*.
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I was somewhat nervous about the standard risk on Ali of getting a plastic-substitute part, but it's all die-cast metal and aluminium.
[*] I have no idea why these are still called trim routers since pretty much the last thing anyone ever does with them is trim laminate. On the remote chance that you're applying your own laminate and need to trim it, you'd want to cut it with a slitter knife or trim it with an edge plane to get a clean edge, not grind it off with a router. So I'll call it a medium-duty router, say in the 500-800W range, as opposed to a heavy-duty > 1kW plunge router.
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SirHumphreyAppleby:
eBay, not AliExpress. An original MS Natural Keyboard from 1994, new, in box.
I've opened it up and everything seems to be there, all in the original packaging, seemingly undisturbed. It's a thing of beauty.
I used one of these as my daily driver from February 1997 until May 2021. The Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard (2019) I replaced it with is the first model that comes close to the original layout so I thought I'd take the opportunity to upgrade before they phased it out and brought in something worse. The keys on the new model are already showing signs of wear and some of the markings are scratching off, so I certainly don't expect 24 years from it.
I shall now disassemble the second hand unit I got off TradeMe in 2003 (used as a work keyboard) and try the Retrobright process on it to see if it can be restored to a more pleasing colour, before doing the same with my 1997 example.
The MS Natural 4000 was my favourite keyboard of all time. I just wish they made a mechanical version of it *sigh*.
I have one of their office keyboards from about 2000. I still use it because it is such a nice keyboard to type on . It has rubber keycaps, so not mechanical, but I think it perhaps has a better feel to type on. It isn't mushy or soft like regular membrane keyboards. Also the keys don't really wear. Also like how it has cut copy and paste buttons. Unfortionalety the scroll wheel is not supported under windows 10. It also hasn't yellowed. The only issue is that some of the rubber keycaps under the keys can become detached, as the adhesive breaks down. But I have glue them back on.
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