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I Tore Up The Wrong Keyboard!

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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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Just a request for "poor baby"s )-; I tore up a classic keyboard,
albeit a $5.00 classic keyboard, for the KeyZilla project. Just now,
I'm installing Slackware on the new HD in "The Server", which failed
this weekend - it and another drive that failed at the same time are
in the freezer now, but tomorrow I'll probably post to either here or
s.e.repair .

Anyway, I've got a really crappy cheapo keyboard on the server, that
I hate, and realized that I should have torn this one up to make KeyZilla,
because I hate it, and I've always preferred the classic. Then again,
this might be one of those capacitive ones that what's-his-name was
talking about the other day, so it might well be moot.

Well, it's moot now anyway, I don't think I'm about to put that other
one back together. :)

So, all together now,
"Awwwwwwwwwww...."

Thanks!
Rich
 
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Martin Riddle

Jan 1, 1970
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Ha, I'm still using myold Keytronic from 87'. All the new ones are tooo mushy.

Cheers
 
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Andrew VK3BFA

Jan 1, 1970
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Martin Riddle said:
Ha, I'm still using myold Keytronic from 87'. All the new ones are tooo mushy.

Cheers

It shouldnt be a problem - I have a shed full of good touch keyboards
salvaged from hard rubbish piles in the street when people dump old
PC's - and apart from being drowned in coffee every now and again,
just keep on going, and going.

In the modern ones, the Mitsubishi Diamond Touch seem to be the best I
have come acrooss, nice feedback.

BTW, the nicest keyboard I ever had was on an old ADLER electronic
daisywheel typewriter - a joy to use. And have used everything,
starting with Teletype Model 15's, ASR33's, etc.

Apologies to the apostrophe police......

73 de VK3BFA Andrew
 
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Chaos Master

Jan 1, 1970
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Martin Riddle([email protected]) showed us the following results:
Ha, I'm still using myold Keytronic from 87'. All the new ones are tooo mushy.

I was using an old keyboard on this PC, since 1998. Dropped water on it and some
keys, like the arrow keys, got dead. Bought a new cheap keyboard which isn't as
good as the old keyboard - it's fragile, and I like to strike keys very hard (as
if I was typing on a typewriter).

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Posting from Brazil! | drowning in you
Win 98 + LiteStep | I'm falling forever,
Slackware Linux 9.1 | I've got to break through"
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Ben Bradley

Jan 1, 1970
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Martin Riddle([email protected]) showed us the following results:

I was using an old keyboard on this PC, since 1998. Dropped water on it and some
keys, like the arrow keys, got dead. Bought a new cheap keyboard which isn't as
good as the old keyboard - it's fragile, and I like to strike keys very hard (as
if I was typing on a typewriter).

Go to a thrift store, get a PS/2 (has the IBM logo at an angle in
an oval) keyboard. Or you can get an AT keyboard, it clicks louder,
but you need an adapter for the AT keyboard's 5-pin DIN to the newer,
smaller PS/2 connector type.
 
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Chaos Master

Jan 1, 1970
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Ben Bradley([email protected]) showed us the following results:
Go to a thrift store, get a PS/2 (has the IBM logo at an angle in
an oval) keyboard. Or you can get an AT keyboard, it clicks louder,
but you need an adapter for the AT keyboard's 5-pin DIN to the newer,
smaller PS/2 connector type.

Ah, if I was not in Brazil, this would be easier to find. :/
I think that here, almost nobody used an AT computer.
Computers became common with 386, Win 3.11 and such.

[]s
--
© 2004 Chaos Master | "I'm going under,
Posting from Brazil! | drowning in you
Win 98 + LiteStep | I'm falling forever,
Slackware Linux 9.1 | I've got to break through"
---------------------. -- Evanescence, "Going Under"
 
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Philip A. Marshall

Jan 1, 1970
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Ben Bradley([email protected]) showed us the following results:


Ah, if I was not in Brazil, this would be easier to find. :/
I think that here, almost nobody used an AT computer.
Computers became common with 386, Win 3.11 and such.

my 386 had an AT keyboard... I think most of them did, other than the
IBM flavored PCs... either way, some of those old IBM PS/2 keyboards
are pretty good as well. I have one around somewhere, as well as
plenty of AT keyboards (though most have at least one key broken >.< )
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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Philip A. Marshall said:
my 386 had an AT keyboard... I think most of them did, other than the
IBM flavored PCs... either way, some of those old IBM PS/2 keyboards
are pretty good as well. I have one around somewhere, as well as
plenty of AT keyboards (though most have at least one key broken >.< )

The KeyZilla
http://home.earthlink.net/~entheos_engineering/Showcase/KeyZilla/

should work just fine with AT keyboards, but you'd have to look up
the pinout.

Cheers!
Rich
 
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Chris Hodges

Jan 1, 1970
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Philip A. Marshall said:
my 386 had an AT keyboard... I think most of them did, other than the
IBM flavored PCs... either way, some of those old IBM PS/2 keyboards
are pretty good as well. I have one around somewhere, as well as
plenty of AT keyboards (though most have at least one key broken >.< )

I still have a Pentium 200MMX that uses an AT (type) keyboard - about
7 years old. Don't use it much now as I have 2 newer machines.

Chris
 
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N. Thornton

Jan 1, 1970
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I still have a Pentium 200MMX that uses an AT (type) keyboard - about
7 years old. Don't use it much now as I have 2 newer machines.

Chris


Wasnt that long ago I upgraded from a 486 keyboard. Never had any
complaints with it, simple as that, and found it more convenient to
not have the win keys. Why get another?


Regards, NT
 
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Jan Panteltje

Jan 1, 1970
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Wasnt that long ago I upgraded from a 486 keyboard. Never had any
complaints with it, simple as that, and found it more convenient to
not have the win keys. Why get another?


Regards, NT
Right, I sold my very expensive Logitech super whatever it whas, got
the old AT keyboard from the attic, and have been using it ever since.
Good thing I know where the keys are, because the text has disapeared on
many of these (actually that is interesting, as if I have to point to say an 'r',
I really have to think where it is, but not while typing).
This one was made in China, fixed almost all key now...
Not one of those foil thing, real capacitive with foam pads for each key.
BIG enter key, perfect keyboard, and of cause no internet keys.
JP

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Chaos Master

Jan 1, 1970
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N. Thornton ([email protected]) caused an illegal operation in module
Wasnt that long ago I upgraded from a 486 keyboard. Never had any
complaints with it, simple as that, and found it more convenient to
not have the win keys. Why get another?

I don't like them too much, but I had to learn to live with the Win keys. They
are bad when using MS-DOS stuff, but useful otherwise. I love pressing Win+M and
minimize all windows.

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Posting from Brazil! | drowning in you
ICQ: 126735906 / | I'm falling forever,
UnderNet: FreeB5D | I've got to break through"
---------------------. -- Evanescence, "Going Under"
 
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Richard Henry

Jan 1, 1970
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Chaos Master said:
N. Thornton ([email protected]) caused an illegal operation in module


I don't like them too much, but I had to learn to live with the Win keys. They
are bad when using MS-DOS stuff, but useful otherwise. I love pressing Win+M and
minimize all windows.

Shazam! I just did that for the very first time, at your suggestion. Any
other good ones?
 
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Chaos Master

Jan 1, 1970
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Richard Henry ([email protected]) caused an illegal operation in module
Shazam! I just did that for the very first time, at your suggestion. Any
other good ones?

Win+E -> Windows Explorer
Win+R -> Run (same as start -> run)
Win+Pause key (SysRQ) -> System control panel (same as the "System" item in
control panel).

Those are the only ones I remember now.

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© 2004 Chaos Master | "I'm going under,
Posting from Brazil! | drowning in you
ICQ: 126735906 / | I'm falling forever,
UnderNet: FreeB5D | I've got to break through"
---------------------. -- Evanescence, "Going Under"
 
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Carl D. Smith

Jan 1, 1970
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Richard Henry ([email protected]) caused an illegal operation in module


Win+E -> Windows Explorer
Win+R -> Run (same as start -> run)
Win+Pause key (SysRQ) -> System control panel (same as the "System" item in
control panel).

Win+F -> Find/Search (for files)

Win+D -> Show Desktop (This is different than Win-M Minimize all
windows in that it will even remove windows that don't have a
minimize button, and you can undo it with another Win+D.)
 
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Chaos Master

Jan 1, 1970
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Carl D. Smith ([email protected]) said those last words:

Win+F -> Find/Search (for files)

Win+D -> Show Desktop (This is different than Win-M Minimize all
windows in that it will even remove windows that don't have a
minimize button, and you can undo it with another Win+D.)

Exactly. I didn't remember those because I use LiteStep (alternative shell for
Windows) and I can freely re-map keys, but I forgot to map those ones.

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