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In article <14...@nigel.udel.EDU> gar...@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
o In article <133...@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, her...@dogwalk.Sun.COM (Brian Herzog) writes...
o 
o >Um, most keyboards in this era are *designed* for the keycaps to be popped.

o I was helping some friends move some computer equipment from one building to
o another here on campus once and one of the other guys dropped the keyboard for
o an IBM PC/XT - right in the middle of a crosswalk!  ...

Back in the days when the PCjr's came out we got ahold of a case of the 
old chicklet keyboards which were being replaced with somewhat better
'real' keyboards.  Seems these things could stand up to all kinds of
abuse.  It took an average of about 5 or six drops from the roof of an
11-story building onto concrete for any damage to be noticable.  Usually
that was things like chipped off 'legs' followed several falls later
with the keys falling out.  

They made good doorstops, too.

-charles
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