Re: Computers, anyone?

Article View: alt.folklore.computers

Article #624569

Back to alt.folklore.computers Previous Next

#624569

From: Chris
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 21:52

15 lines
2074 bytes

On 07/01/18 21:58, Quadibloc wrote:
> There are things to be nostalgic for. When a Video Display Terminal cost $15,000, then, strange to relate, it
> had a better quality keyboard than today's computers usually do.

Agreed, the best ones had a hall effect sensor under every
key and associated magnet. Cherry iirc and still have one
of those removed from a Honeywell batch terminal decades
ago. Of course, let's not forget the first IBM PC's and
their clicky over center sping action. Used to love those.

Everything was better engineered years ago, but is that a
sign of advancing years, or just that the world is full of
crap product these days ?...

Chris

Technical Details

Message-ID: <phbieo$1noi$1@gioia.aioe.org>

Path:

mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!n13-v6ni17692wmc.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail

References:

<pgt4m9$lcq$1@dont-email.me> <5b329400.851025687@news.xmission.com> <rFFYC.823666$3a1.307159@fx11.am4> <slrnpj6e41.23h.mausg@dmaus.org> <JEHYC.544435$U32.395934@fx04.am4> <9dfafa77-e853-4a85-bcd9-248e3084355d@googlegroups.com> <d3baf2e7-8774-4d99-b993-df5a7c094214@googlegroups.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Received: by 2002:a1c:344d:: with SMTP id b74-v6mr890556wma.12.1530481947784;        Sun, 01 Jul 2018 14:52:27 -0700 (PDT)
X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com
Received: by 2002:a1c:7a15:: with SMTP id v21-v6ls1349195wmc.10.canary-gmail; Sun, 01 Jul 2018 14:52:27 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 2002:a1c:86d2:: with SMTP id i201-v6mr422462wmd.17.1530481947092;        Sun, 01 Jul 2018 14:52:27 -0700 (PDT)
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!n13-v6ni17692wmc.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Chris <xxx.sys...@gfsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Computers, anyone?
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 22:52:26 +0100
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <phbieo$1noi$1@gioia.aioe.org>
References: <pgt4m9$lcq$1@dont-email.me> <5b329400.851025687@news.xmission.com> <rFFYC.823666$3a1.307159@fx11.am4> <slrnpj6e41.23h.mausg@dmaus.org> <JEHYC.544435$U32.395934@fx04.am4> <9dfafa77-e853-4a85-bcd9-248e3084355d@googlegroups.com> <d3baf2e7-8774-4d99-b993-df5a7c094214@googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: T2sfH+XJtGFgYGa9okqr5Q.user.gioia.aioe.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Complaints-To: ab...@aioe.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS sun4u; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2
X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Reply to Parent Message