Old Keyboard, Younger Brother

This is my oldest IBM Model M keyboard, made in 1986. It is about two years older than my twenty-six year old brother, who is holding it in this picture. It still works just fine, though one has to swap the AT-style cable with an ATX one to connect it to anything these days. Fortunately, that's easy on these because things were actually designed to have replaceable parts back then.

The one I'm using on my desktop off and on is a comparative youngling, made in 1992.





(I'm taking some pictures of my stuff as I start on the process of packing up to move.)

New-to-me Monitor

A while back, my dad and I found a Syncmaster 213T, 21.3" *non* widescreen monitor at a thrift store for $25. I figured Tim would like it, and my dad bought it for him. It turned out it wasn't a good fit for his setup, so it's been sitting around.

I just got around to cleaning off my old computer and set this monitor up to use with it. After cleaning it up, it looks so nice I decided to swap it for my primary monitor on my desktop. It's actually the biggest monitor I have now, and the only non-widescreen one. It feels enormous, looking at it set up. It should be really nice for working with Photoshop and ArcMap.