Dismantling an AT keyboard entirely

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Wed Nov 25 19:03:26 1998

Once upon a midnight dreary, Tony Duell had spoken clearly:

>> A lot of people don't like key clicks. I do. When I worked at IBM I
>> received a lot of dirty looks for typing on a 3279 terminal, in an open
>
>Not half as bad as the looks _I_ got for using a Flexowriter to punch a
>tape in a public terminal room at Cambridge University about 10 years ago
>(everybody else was using _silent_ video terminals, mostly BBC micros).

Not only do I like keyclicks (well, except on that damnable new ICQ
proggie) when I was learning COBOL in college I would turn on keyclick (at
110wpm, it irritated a lot of people! ;^> ) but I'd also change the
terminal screens to black on green, "because it's just like my CoCo at
home!" :-) Considering that 1/2 the class was newbies and couldn't figure
out how to change it back, made the other 1/2 of the class mad at me 'cause
they always had to always keep showing the newbies how to do it...

The local university has a "garage sale" every year -- this year I picked
up 2 superbrains (sans boot disks :-( ) and 7 original 30 kg (well,
compared to new keyboards, they feel that heavy) IBM 101-key keyboards. 2
for work, 2 for home, 2 for spares, and one for spare parts (key caps & the
like.) $5 apiece - well worth the investment. (They all worked, too! ;-)

Later,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
Received on Wed Nov 25 1998 - 19:03:26 GMT