Re: Key placement and touch typing (was Re: Mice, Etc.)

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4 total messages Started by gar... Tue, 20 Mar 1990 14:38

#1527

Author: gar...
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 1990 14:38

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In article <133...@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, her...@dogwalk.Sun.COM (Brian Herzog) writes...

>Um, most keyboards in this era are *designed* for the keycaps to be popped.

I can attest to that...  Sometimes they tend to pop at the worst possible time.
I was helping some friends move some computer equipment from one building to
another here on campus once and one of the other guys dropped the keyboard for
an IBM PC/XT - right in the middle of a crosswalk!  Needless to say, traffic
was brought to a standstill while we searched for the keys... Never did find
'em all... :-(

That still has to rank right up there as one of the most spectacular sights
in working with PCs...  (just glad it wasn't my keyboard...)

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Re: Key placement and touch typing (was Re: Mice, Etc.)

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Author: cd... Charles Daffinger
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 1990 16:07

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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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Re: Key placement and touch typing (was Re: Mice, Etc.)

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Author: r... EARTH is 98 percent full. P...
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 1990 17:29

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In article <39...@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> cd...@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger) writes:
>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

;-)

>They made good doorstops, too.

That's what I thought Timex-Sinclair ZX-81 machines were made for...

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Re: Key placement and touch typing (was Re: Mice, Etc.)

#1530

Author: cs... Ade Lovett
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 1990 09:15

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In article <50...@rtech.rtech.com> r...@squid.rtech.com writes:
> In article <39...@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> cd...@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes:
> >They made good doorstops, too.
>  That's what I thought Timex-Sinclair ZX-81 machines were made for...

Nah. ZX-81's were commonly used as heatsinks for the Sinclair Spectrums
(boy, did those machines get *hot* at times -- mind you, it meant less
on heating bills on all those all-night hacking sessions)

aDe

Ade Lovett -- Dept. Of Computer Science, Warwick Uni, Coventry. CV4 7AL.
ade%warw...@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk

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