Boy do I remember those days and back then you had hard drive types like type 47 or you had to manually enter the sectors..........
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and if you accidentally put an RLL formatted drive onto a standard MFM controller, you lost everything! 
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yup
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You know you are getting old when "young ppl's" memes don't actually show what you consider old PC tech! 
That was just the 3rd keyboard and mouse standard I used! (XT & AT keyboards / Proprietary & Serial Mice).
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Which one is that? Looks familiar?
I figure I prolly used some others, but my memory sucks.
5 pin din keyboard connector
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You had me confused for a minute there, that's a PC/XT connector. AT used the same one but with different signalling (hence the XT/AT switch on the bottom of many old PC keyboards).
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That reminds me, I also used some early Mac's with the RJ10 phone jack style keyboard connector too. That was replaced with ADB iirc.
Nice, I did use terminals back in the 80's (very common in local libraries), but I dont recall what sort of keyboard connectors they used.
EDIT: might have even been these ones from Wyse.
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We still have one of those old RLL/MFM drives.
Bloody thing is massive for only something like 20 MB in size
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I still have a working 40MB SCSI drive from my Mac SE sitting on my shelf - I think that's the smallest in my collection. I replaced it with a BlueSCSI SD card solution.
Wish I'd kept the 10MB HDD from my first computer in 1985...got the computer from a local IMB clone company. IIRC it cost me about $1,000. So exciting...started a life-long fascination w/geeky stuff. 
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And now back to our regular programming…
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