It looks like PSIO will be “Re-Available for Pre-Ordering March 1st 2016.”

That’s only a couple of days away, and for once the timing is being presented in Australian time zones. Woohoo!

I wasn’t entirely sure what the “re-available” wording referred to at the time. I remembered seeing an earlier February date, but I do not have enough surviving evidence to reconstruct exactly what changed, so I’ll leave that as a period observation rather than guessing.

In other news, I’ve picked up an expensive new Canon EOS 760D so I can document more consoles and record even more videos.

I also picked up two IBM Model M keyboards, one with a black logo and one with a blue logo.

I originally repeated the idea that all blue-logo Model Ms were manufactured by Lexmark and that the drain holes were a Lexmark identifier.

That is too simple.

Lexmark certainly manufactured many blue-logo Model Ms, but IBM factories also produced blue-logo keyboards, including models with drainage holes. Logo colour by itself is not enough to establish the manufacturer.

The older keyboard here was from 1988 and showed signs of liquid damage when I cleaned it, but it still worked perfectly.

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