"Welcome to Mario teach-as typing!" "Shut your face-a!" ok that was good.

I can hear my High School "Keyboarding" instructor yelling, "Stop looking down!" every time you look down. Oh, memories...

The transition btw beige and black boards at 1:42 is amazingly well done!!!!!

Oddware / tech tales request: dedicated physics cards. They seemed like they were about to be the next big thing about ten years ago.

"That's why I wanted to do it, 'cause it's absurd". Most of this channel in a nutshell :)

Just love the clicky sound, nearly can't hear you anymore... Imagine an entire office with those :p

These are quite possibly the most awesome keyboards ever made, thanks to the black case and Trackpoint. And they're an absolute *joy* to type on. (I've never noticed hitting the Trackpoint.) Pity that the Trackpoint buttons aren't nearly so nice. If used enough, they'll get really mushy and not register precisely without a hammer being involved somewhere. Unicomp might well be willing to make a custom keyboard to your specification. They offer all blank black keys and if you asked, they might put letters on those. The two black M13s I've got were made by Maxi Switch and they're on an equal footing with the Lexmark examples, of which I have a white M13 with a *serial* Trackpoint! $75 was an amazing deal for one of these; usually they're three or four times that price, especially for industrial grey (which I'd really like to have in my collection!)...

I remember back in the early 90's I had a computer with this metal IBM keyboard. The thing was heavy. The keys were even metal and they were spring loaded and clicky and I loved the hell out of it. The problem was that I kept it in the living room and my roommate at the time hated it because when I would use the computer all he would hear was the damn thing clicking. So one day, I came home from work and I found this plastic monstrosity with soft keys that made no sound on my desk. I was like "WHERE THE HELL IS MY KEYBOARD!?!" and he was like, "I threw out that crap keyboard and got you this nice one! It makes no sound when you type! Listen!" And he proceeded to type and the cheap, crap thing indeed made no sound! I was furious! I went out to the dumpster but the garbage man had already taken my keyboard away! My roommate actually thought he was doing me a favor because he bought the most expensive keyboard at the store with all the bells and whistles! But I wanted my 5 pound metal clicky IBM keyboard!!!!

I can't take my eyes off that Freedom Planet IndieBox

Holy cow, I never would have thought I'd see this turn up on your Oddware series, so excited! This is my dream keyboard but damn they are expensive!

I love watching the videos about the old computer systems. brings me back to my early childhood messing around and playing games on a Tandy 1000. The oddware series is by far my favorite however. I hope you find more strange pieces of old tech to talk about in the future!

With a bit of practice, it *IS* technically possible to learn to game with a trackpoint. Back in school all I had was my school-issue Thinkpad laptop, so I had to learn to play games like Stalker:SoC and Mount&Blade using a trackpoint (including the mounted archery, which I was surprisingly good at given what I was working with).

Is that Fallout Beer I spy?

As a huge Thinkpad user (previously IT, currently engineer) this keyboard interests me IMMENSELY. Time to set aside a couple hundred bucks and scan ebay daily.

One of my favorite implementations of this was on a laptop I could check out from a library I frequented years back. It had the trackpoint thing and a trackpad... I would have my hand spread out over both, which made it super comfortable to use.

Oh man this brings back memories! Back in the early '90s all the computers at my my school had the model M white keyboards. I remember the computer labs always being so loud when 30 kids were playing "Touch Typing" ha ha! Great vid man!

"That's why I wanted to do it. Because it's absurd!" YAY! I love this channel.

Made in USA? It' so weird not seeing Made in China for once.

Lgr you are a awesome person keep up the good work and also I've learned a lot about older technology and newer technology from you and other KZfaqrs you've kind of been my teacher for technology which is good for many reasons

Every time I think of Oddworld when I see a video of this series in my sub feed. Now you have a massive Abe's Exoddus box in the background now as well. Glorious.

The keyboards I had in my secondary school in Northern Ireland were similar. Nobody ever used the trackpoint but I remember playing with it and it was common for people to pry the little rubber point off as they kept going missing. I remember it being incredibly sensitive and hard to use.

wao, set the counter for 500k Subs! well deserved!

As a fellow IndieBox lover, I love seeing other people's collections of their boxes! Also really loved the video! My grandfather actually used to work a contracting job with IBM and Dell back in the day, and he'd see these come into his store all the time. Super reliable, plus the regular Model M was my first keyboard when he had me build my first PC! Lots of good nostalgia all around with this one.

That transaition at 1:39 - very nice.

Kinda nifty, but would drive me nuts.

you heard it here first folks, look for clint on a cam site soon tm, doing ungodly things to his model m 13 keyboard... lol

glad to see you doing a video on this! didn't expect it to be oddware, though :)

A couple years after this video came out and I gotta say, that transition from beige to black was too dang nice.

I remember going to the cebit convention in hannover germany in the 90's when those Trackpoint nubs where the next "hottest thing"for laptops. And I tried them on a few demo laptops they show cased there. I found that they worked quite well actually. I found them rather easy to use. I still don't understand why they where replaced with those awkward badly and inaccurately responding touchpads that you find on all laptops now adays.

Oh damn. THAT Area 51 game. I saw it in this hotel lobby we stayed on a family vacation when I was like... 9 or 10 I think. I was playing with gameboy color at the time. I had just gotten it and it was just great fun. But that area 51, it stuck with me. Aside Metal Slug seeing that Area 51 gameplay was just weird. The idea of people getting turned into aliens was quite scary one for younger me. The scene where hero fails is slight nightmare fuel, not that I had any. Seeing it again so randomly after these years - and there is a windows version - I could play this now... Thanks for the great video as always LGR.

Lol @ 5:49 : 'Mario': "Welcome to "Mario Teaches Typing!" Clint: "Shut your face!"

I do enjoy your video's all the old stuff, I think maybe because I remember most of it and it reminds me that when you say you wanted it as a kid I was working and had to buy that stuff myself

Just so you know, the only buckling spring keyboards manufactured by IBM that DO NOT have membranes under the switches are the Model F. Model M keyboards all use membranes, so you can't call them "mechanical" though in practice they are. The model f uses capacitive switches, and are true mechanical buckling spring switches.

we always had a VERY un-PC name for the notebooks with that mouse-thingie on the keyboards back in the days :)

This thing looks amazing. I've always loved track points. Not great for gaming but I always found them a lot more accurate and comfortable for general use than trackpads personally

Love you're stuff man keep it up!

I bought one of these years ago and love it! It's extremely convenient if you don't have your vintage PC set up at a proper desk. Mine served at a server KVM in it's previous life.

3:18 oohhh that focus ;)

Greetings from Mexico LGR, love your videos. Keep the good work!:)

I could never get one of those keyboards again. I had one Model M with my PC-XT a long time ago. Now, all that I could find is a mechanical keyboard with brown switches. I am satisfied with that, but the nostalgia still makes me want one of those. Thanks for the video, very cool! :)

The trackpoint is way better than a trackpad

Ugh that clicky keyboard sound really gets me going.

I Love that sound of the keys clicking!

:| ! You got Freedom Planet's indie box too? That was a hell of a surprise hit of a game for me. Cramming a ton of inspirations together to make a big mega-platformer that Treasure would be proud of. The keyboard you had showed in the start was my first keyboard with this old IBM PC we had, no idea what one specifically but I think you've shown that too. You're always a explosion of weird nostalgia LGR.

I wonder when the next LGR Thrifts episode is gonna come out

its so beautiful.....if only it was a japanese keyboard i would switch over to it without question.

I found one of these in a scrap heap at work and I'm using it right now! Love this thing. The keys are quite a bit heavier than the MX Blues in my Logitech G710.

I was very surprised to see this in an LGR Oddware video. My old school had nothing but these keyboards and they bugged the hell out of me! There were probably around 40 keyboards in the library alone so they didn't seem like they were rare or anything.

I love you Mr LGR. And yes, I am drunk. But I still love you. :D

You keep taunting me with that big box of Hotline Miami 2...

OMG! Mario Teaches Typing! We got that in middle school IT class! It’s awesome to see it again.

I'm super impressed by your multitasking skills: Talking while typing and reading.

Oh man, a full black unicomp model M is like $110 new, they know how nice it looks and you really pay for it. I settled on the DAS keyboard ultimate (totally blank and black) Better fit for me as it's not as noisy.

Hey a Freedom Planet box! GalaxyTrail made a physical release for FP?

God I loved this Keyboard back in the day. This video is like seeing an old flame at a reunion or something. I used that ps2 back port, along with an adapter, for an ancient Wacom graphics tablet.

Big fan of the trackpoint mouses, had a Thinkpad all through college. I have to say that is a beautiful keyboard

That's why there's that little indent in my Unicomp Spacesaver! They use the same mold for the trackpoint version and the standard version.

+Lazy Game Reviews off topic where did you get the box version of Freedom Planet?

you got a bargain! a black m13, the holy grail of Model M's! owner of 2 standard uk layouts (1 lexmark, & one 1986 IBM made 5 miles away from where i used to live as a child, made in Greenock, Scotland)

Love all your videos LGR :)

What is the song used in the intro?

Woah! Where did you get that Hotline Miami box?

it really does, it has such nice texture.

The color and texture of that keyboard is just really nice. Also, that conversion of Area 51 looks pretty good, too.

I'd watch you do a typing session alllll night long. Call it my ASMR.....

5:12 Is that a boxed copy of Freedom Planet???

I swear I think I had this with my old ibm for a while. surprised to see it so valuable

I totally adore the oddware series!

I've been looking at thinkpads just so I could have the mouse pointer, really not a fan of trackpads.

I want this.

Your voice and the keyboard clicking is really my type of asmr

I'm glad you finally got it.

In my opinion any keyboard with a 'clit' to control the mouse is oddware.

Didn't play Duke Nukem 3d? :O!!!

Your "glorious typing session" at the end brought back flashbacks from revenge of the sunfish.

I remember getting a Lenovo Thinkpad laptop (can't remember the specific model) from a place I worked at. The red trackpoint was perfect for pixel art! You could easily make stuff super straight super fast! I had to return the computer when I stopped working there but man. This keyboard would be ideal for my current needs. Damn you Clint, you win again!

Soo apparently freedom planet has a big box release?

I don't get why US keyboards have that single block return key, having a big 'L' shaped button is so...much...better

I thought you had super tall bookshelves until I realized you stack games ontop of the shelving units. I'm not surprised you're running out of room. That's a GOOD problem to have!

Thanks for this video! I've been thinking about getting an old mechanical keyboard but had no idea what to look for, and this got me looking into the IBM Model M in general. Just got a regular one for $50. Would love the awesome black one but man that price... no.

pad printed legends, shit :l

I really don't understand why mouse and touchpad became the most popular pointing devices. Trackpoints and trackballs are way better. The only situation when a mouse is superior is playing a first-person shooter, and touchpads just suck.

Thanks for the excellent review, I liked it very much.

Clint, at some point you're just going to have to open up a museum for these things so you can share the joy! ...And have more room to get more cool stuff!

I am so jelly of you and your all black M13. I say this as a man who bought and assembled his own TEX Yoda. Trackpoint 4 Lyfe dawg (when it comes to work that is).

That's it, i'm getting this keyboard.. Been drooling over it on ebay the past week now.

When he mentions at 9:03-9:07 " this thing makes me wanna do things I can't appropriately do it on camera for youtube" 😂

My laptop which was made in 2011 which came with Windows 7 Pro and is now currently running Windows 10 pro, which I am currently using to type this comment and watch your awesome videos has a trackball and comes with 2 sets of left and right click buttons. One for the trackpad and the other for the track ball. Not annoying at all and I use it sometimes for scrolling since it also has a middle button for scrolling. It's a preety kewl Laptop!

that's such a beautiful m13. my yard sale one has a crackly cable that's almost completely out of the rubber sheath. and the white is kinda yellow. I use it everyday and I love it. its also a maxi switch and it's pretty good quality (I think)

I had an IBM notebook with that track point nub. I loved it! Seems ridiculous today.

You got a great deal for $75. I worked in a computer store when these were new - they retailed for $249! I wanted one back then but couldn't justify the price. Nowadays you're lucky to find one at all on Ebay, let alone for $75. They're pretty rare. I'd love to have one - I've long been a ThinkPad guy so I'm used to the Trackpoint. And they are beautiful, and fit right in with a modern system. And they feel great! (I do have a white Model M.) btw, Lexmark *is* IBM. They were just spun off in the 90's. But same people, same factory. Never let anyone tell you a Lexmark Model M isn't a "real" IBM Model M!

You just made my Monday!

This was ahead of its time!!

I am nearly certain we were using this exact keyboard when I was overseas with the military as recently as 2011. The big thing that I can recall was the almost orange peel texture, recessed keys, trackpoint, and mouse keys. We had boxes full of keyboards from 1980s-2000s (ps2 usb etc) so when one sh*t the bed, then we would just grab one out of the boxes because the nearest Best Buy was a little ways away....

I love these keyboard. I have a smaller one of these (it’s the size of a thinkpad keyboard). I got it years and years ago at a flea market. I use it constantly for quick projects(like my RaspberryPi) with a dual-ps2 to USB adapter.

You turned me into a keyboard nerd! I'm currently rocking a ROCCAT Ryos MK FX with MX Cherry Brown keys.

Your collection is very impressive and I'm extremely jealous. Haha. Great channel, man! :)

love the oddworld box in the background

Shoutout to Oddworld in the background. I see what you did there and I approve :D

Dang, that game. Area 51. I had some fun playing it on the rare occasions I went to the arcade years ago. Would be cool to have that cabinet and lightgun setup.