While doing my inventory of SDL cables, I found the small ziploc bag with the keycaps of a long-dead Model M that I had last used to test my custom layouts. I counted them, and all the keycaps where there, except for the twenty that I had replaced with clear keycaps (from a large lot of 71, yes, seventy-one, that I had bought at Clicky Keyboards long ago). So far, so good, but... where are those 20 keycaps AND the 51 clear ones? They are not where they were supposed to be. They are not in the related "computer stuff" boxes (either modern PC, older PCs, or my even older Atari) in the basement, either. I spent three hours last night looking for them, and they still don't show up. They
could still be in one of the boxes where I keep my old books (a major undertaking, that search) or among my old lens collection (and that's shit that I don't want to stir up, for complex reasons), but the probability of actually finding them in either is rather low.
WHERE ARE MY KEYCAPS???!!!
Damn.
On the plus side, I took out a few 5¼” diskettes off storage — a copy of MS-DOS 6.0 and a couple old games that supported CGA. I'll soon determine if that Portable PC does actually boot and work properly (although, as I mentioned before, I'm happy if the keyboard works; the rest is just bonus).
You'll find them...eventually.
I can spot some badges in there.
