Youngsters are always welcomekeyboard Kultist wrote: ↑12 Aug 2019, 23:30[…] I'm far older than most of you folks, I'll be 60 at the end of August […]
Keyboard enthusiast age structure
- kbdfr
- The Tiproman
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Main keyboard: Tipro MID-QM-128A + two Tipro matrix modules
- Main mouse: Contour Rollermouse Pro
- Favorite switch: Cherry black
- DT Pro Member: 0010
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- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: Lately an Ortek 142 though I swap out boards
- Main mouse: logitech
- Favorite switch: buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0239
- Contact:
Thanks Grampa
- fohat
- Elder Messenger
- Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- Main keyboard: Model F 122-key terminal
- Main mouse: Microsoft Optical Mouse
- Favorite switch: Model F Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0158
Here, only kbdfr is older than me.
On GH, every time I am about to think that I am oldest, terrapin will pop up and edge me out by a few months.
On GH, every time I am about to think that I am oldest, terrapin will pop up and edge me out by a few months.
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Ditto here. Enigma was broken right around the time my dad showed up, to keenly watch documentaries all about it, decades ever later. Me and my brothers were the ones to teach him Windows 95.
Something I routinely get from folk in the community when I meet them in real life is: “you’re younger than I thought!” I could take that as a compliment, but I prefer to take it to mean that I write like a rancorous auld fart!
Something I routinely get from folk in the community when I meet them in real life is: “you’re younger than I thought!” I could take that as a compliment, but I prefer to take it to mean that I write like a rancorous auld fart!
- vometia
- irritant
- Location: Somewhere in England
- Main keyboard: Durrr-God with fancy keycaps
- Main mouse: Roccat Malarky
- Favorite switch: Avocent Thingy
- DT Pro Member: 0184
I've always been a rancorous old fart, even when I was (technically) young. Parents were born during WW2, gf's dad actually grew up then and was an evacuee. And then a nuclear physicist, which was a new and exciting thing back then rather than today's "that's something we can buy from China because we have no idea how to do it."
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Dear sir,
I hereby request my right, legally granted by the GDPR (article 1, subhead 0.1ac: Paddington Bear came to tea), to make a great girls blouse of myself, by getting into a tizzy about the nerve, the very nerve, of requesting personally embarrassing data like that heretowhichforewhether is requested (demanded!) in this World Wide Web hyperthread. You sir are an incorrigible data miner and this shall stop immediately, postprompterhocwith, at the penalty of my bunched knickers aired in public. By what right, what nerve!, do you invite voluntary contributions of a personally numerical endeavour? And by what means are *your* servers secured?
My lawyer will be with you once he has recovered from his unfortunate gynaecological hysteria.
Yours, in a wad
Ambrose Twatt, Troll (Hons)
I hereby request my right, legally granted by the GDPR (article 1, subhead 0.1ac: Paddington Bear came to tea), to make a great girls blouse of myself, by getting into a tizzy about the nerve, the very nerve, of requesting personally embarrassing data like that heretowhichforewhether is requested (demanded!) in this World Wide Web hyperthread. You sir are an incorrigible data miner and this shall stop immediately, postprompterhocwith, at the penalty of my bunched knickers aired in public. By what right, what nerve!, do you invite voluntary contributions of a personally numerical endeavour? And by what means are *your* servers secured?
My lawyer will be with you once he has recovered from his unfortunate gynaecological hysteria.
Yours, in a wad
Ambrose Twatt, Troll (Hons)
- Bjerrk
- Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
- Main keyboard: Cherry G80-1800 & Models F & M
- Main mouse: Mouse Keys, Trackpoint, Trackball
- Favorite switch: IBM Buckling Springs+Beamspring, Alps Plate Spring
Muirium, your unspeakable age cannot be hidden behind mere legal barriers.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even Beamsprings may die, but older still is Muirium", as the mad poet Abdul Alhazred wrote in the Necronomicon.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even Beamsprings may die, but older still is Muirium", as the mad poet Abdul Alhazred wrote in the Necronomicon.
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Ah, I remember good old Loveboat. (Lovecraft hadn’t been invented yet.)
Here’s a thought. A fairer or at least more creative way of confessing would be to name a technology which hadn’t been invented before you.
Mine… is the Cherry MX key switch.
Here’s a thought. A fairer or at least more creative way of confessing would be to name a technology which hadn’t been invented before you.
Mine… is the Cherry MX key switch.
- depletedvespene
- Location: Chile
- Main keyboard: IBM Model F122
- Main mouse: Logitech G700s
- Favorite switch: buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0224
- Contact:
Should we be relieved that you didn't refer us to Arkell vs. Pressdram for any subsequent comments?Muirium wrote: ↑16 Mar 2021, 21:38Dear sir,
I hereby request my right, legally granted by the GDPR (article 1, subhead 0.1ac: Paddington Bear came to tea), to make a great girls blouse of myself, by getting into a tizzy about the nerve, the very nerve, of requesting personally embarrassing data like that heretowhichforewhether is requested (demanded!) in this World Wide Web hyperthread. You sir are an incorrigible data miner and this shall stop immediately, postprompterhocwith, at the penalty of my bunched knickers aired in public. By what right, what nerve!, do you invite voluntary contributions of a personally numerical endeavour? And by what means are *your* servers secured?
My lawyer will be with you once he has recovered from his unfortunate gynaecological hysteria.
Yours, in a wad
Ambrose Twatt, Troll (Hons)
- fohat
- Elder Messenger
- Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- Main keyboard: Model F 122-key terminal
- Main mouse: Microsoft Optical Mouse
- Favorite switch: Model F Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0158
Naw, you've got it all wrong, you young whippersnapper.
Kbdfr is just checking to be sure that he is still the only "over-70" on the roster. I am curious, too, to see if I retain my #2 position.
- Go-Kart
- Location: England
- Main keyboard: HHKB & AnyKey
- Main mouse: Orochi v2
- Favorite switch: Topre 45 g & MaxiSwitch D/S
I pre-date The Morris Worm.
It's interesting to see that the composition of DT is younger than I'd thought, purely based on my interactions with member over the past month. Though maybe that's more a function of more active members being in the latter age brackets.
It's interesting to see that the composition of DT is younger than I'd thought, purely based on my interactions with member over the past month. Though maybe that's more a function of more active members being in the latter age brackets.
- Bjerrk
- Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
- Main keyboard: Cherry G80-1800 & Models F & M
- Main mouse: Mouse Keys, Trackpoint, Trackball
- Favorite switch: IBM Buckling Springs+Beamspring, Alps Plate Spring
Or that a healthy appreciation of vintage keyboard technology is a shortcut to wisdom and maturity. I choose to believe that.Go-Kart wrote: ↑17 Mar 2021, 08:49I pre-date The Morris Worm.
It's interesting to see that the composition of DT is younger than I'd thought, purely based on my interactions with member over the past month. Though maybe that's more a function of more active members being in the latter age brackets.
Excuse me while I say my nursery rhymes.
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Round and round, round and round ....