Set an fully working IBM Model M on fire...

[Mr.Nobody]

https://youtu.be/6y9uo3oFPe4

[Mr.Nobody]

This guy shot it with an arrow...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wDoH6cXuS4

[zslane]

They were far too kind to those boards...

[fohat]

That first one went around a few years ago, and I have not been able to find it.

Thanks for the post.

[Techno Trousers]

That first guy looks exactly like what you'd expect a keyboard destroying pyromaniac to look like. Epic mullet, dude!

[Mr.Nobody]

That first guy looks exactly like what you'd expect a keyboard destroying pyromaniac to look like. Epic mullet, dude!

Ovbiously that guy needs therapy...I wonder what he is doing now...maybe plucking off wings of flies if he could manage to catch some.

[czarek]

Burning PVC = cancer, so they get what they deserve

[micrex22]

This guy shot it with an arrow...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wDoH6cXuS4

Instinctivist Archer actually knows what the Model M is though, and explicitly stated it didn't work anymore and that it was a later lexmark one (Lexmark Model Ms like Unicomps feature thinner metal backplates etc etc etc). Curiously I've already watched some of his videos, found out about his channel through alternative tunings on OPL3 such as Werckmeister:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np9SSPvAh_0

I'm surprised there's a video at all about OPL3 operating with alternative temperaments since... that's highly specific and unusual. Needless to say he doesn't deserve negative backlash and knows quite a bit about a lot of topics.

There's nothing to lament with a standard issue 101 blue badge. They're everywhere, mass produced and aren't as cool as the original square badge models. One thing that is worth salvaging are the keycaps since Unicomp absolutely butchers the labels.

[clickykeyboards]

..speaking of model M keyboards and cinematic on-camera destruction.

https://youtu.be/JDO6dF6O7yM?t=9m21s

Model M keyboard "destroyed" at end of web series "Video Game High School" Season 1, Episode 2 (2012)

[clickykeyboards]

..and later on by Season 1, Episode 9 (2012), the girl and sidekick save and fully restore the model M keyboard for the hero before the battle.

https://youtu.be/XK7lc4rNvkI?t=2m11s

[Mr.Nobody]

Is it bulletproof, has anybody experimented on it? I wonder why peopel want to do crazy things to Ms,just because Ms are sturdy? Destroy something strurdy gives a sense of achievement maybe...

[Menuhin]

..speaking of model M keyboards and cinematic on-camera destruction.

https://youtu.be/JDO6dF6O7yM?t=9m21s

Model M keyboard "destroyed" at end of web series "Video Game High School" Season 1, Episode 2 (2012)

No way, that's a prop..! Even a Taekwondo black belt can't do that.
Perhaps even Björnsson "Thor" can't break a Model M in one go like that.

Among all keyboard-destroying videos, this video has the most views. It went viral a few years ago, about an angry gamer destroying his keyboard at the end. Can't find the original video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SWMAQYQf0

[pr0ximity]

OP video is the pinnacle of teen angst and rebellion.

[Ray]

Yes, a prop. At least my M doesn't have wood inside

[clickykeyboards]

Yes, a prop. At least my M doesn't have wood inside

Definitely had to use movie special effects to break the model M cleanly in half. Looks like they pre-cut the plastic external and internal case where they wanted to, props department then completely removed the internal steel plate and the internal conductive sheet and then added some wood, glue, and other stuff to temporarily hold the keyboard together for the dramatic shot.

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In real life, the curved internal metal plate and layers of keyboard assembly would probably dent and damage the trash bin before the model M keyboard would begin crack.

Is a model M keyboard bulletproof? I think that if used as a last-defense shield, the metal plate and layered matrix inside the keyboard would probably stop a .22, 38 cal or even a 9mm or .45ACP bullet from a handgun.

[Wodan]

If a Model M is bullet proof, the best favour it could to me is stop a bullet aimed at a Model F ...

[Chyros]

It's bullshit that they broke an M, I couldn't even break an M2 over my knees — yes, I tried.

And I remember the video, the guy got tons and tons of bad comments and thumbs down IIRC.

[zslane]

Is it bulletproof, has anybody experimented on it? I wonder why peopel want to do crazy things to Ms,just because Ms are sturdy? Destroy something strurdy gives a sense of achievement maybe...

Maybe they are on a mission from god.

"What do you call a truckload of Model Ms at the bottom of the ocean?" ... "A good start!"

[Menuhin]

..and later on by Season 1, Episode 9 (2012), the girl and sidekick save and fully restore the model M keyboard for the hero before the battle.

https://youtu.be/XK7lc4rNvkI?t=2m11s

And a girl and sidekick saved and *FULLY RESTORED* that broken model M keyboard?!

That means restoring the broken PCB and its circuitry and welded the metal plates together and glued and sanded down the plastic case, and perhaps produced a few artisan replacement caps... Someone capable like that if exists in real life, is just a perfect friend / lover for any geek.

[Tangtawan]

thats impossibruuuuu

[BeeSawd]

You may be confusing the Model M with The Model F Menuhin, the Model M doesn't have a PCB, it has a membrane.

[Mr.Nobody]

It's bullshit that they broke an M, I couldn't even break an M2 over my knees — yes, I tried.

And I remember the video, the guy got tons and tons of bad comments and thumbs down IIRC.

I contribute a piece of bad comment myself.I hope your knees are okay