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Old October 26th 07, 06:39 PM posted to sci.space.history
Jeff Findley
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"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message
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"OM" wrote in message
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IBM made those keyboards to last!


Dang tooting. My blind-housemate had one. Loved the thing.


It's the perfect keyboard if you're blind since you get auditory and tactile
feedback that you've actually pressed a key (with near certainty that the PC
actually recognized it). My Commodore 64 was like most modern keyboards
(mushy feel) and it was so unreliable that you never really could tell if
the computer knew you hit the key or not.

I've still got a couple of their, slightly newer but still very "clicky",
keyboards. They're still far heavier than today's cheap plastic keyboards.
Unfortunately, they don't have the "windows" key on them, so I don't use
them anymore. :-(

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Old October 26th 07, 06:56 PM posted to sci.space.history
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keyboards. Unfortunately, they don't have the "windows" key on them, so I
don't use them anymore. :-(


Apparently Unicomp owns the patents nowadays, and manufactures
The Keyboard also with that -- Uh! -- W-key:

http://www.pckeyboard.com/customizer.html


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Old October 26th 07, 07:12 PM posted to sci.space.history
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, OM wrote:

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:44:00 -0400, "Scott Hedrick"
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"OM" wrote in message
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IBM made those keyboards to last!


Hence IBM is out of the personal computer business.


...That had damn near AbZero to do with it. 99.9% of the reason IBM is
no longer making PCs - no, wait...make that *blame* - has to do with
the mentalities running Big Blue. They're still hopelessly locked into
the belief that PCs are a "toy", and that no self-respecting business
wants anything but a large monstrous mainframe with dumb terminals and
centralized storage controlled by BFOHs.


Small nitpick: I think you mean BOFHs.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled rant.

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Old October 26th 07, 10:51 PM posted to sci.space.history
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:12:20 GMT, Bill Higgins
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Small nitpick: I think you mean BOFHs.


....Yeah, I did. I was channelling Bbo Hallr for a brief second, alas.

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Old October 26th 07, 10:53 PM posted to sci.space.history
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:56:56 +0300, Janne Tuukkanen
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keyboards. Unfortunately, they don't have the "windows" key on them, so I
don't use them anymore. :-(


Apparently Unicomp owns the patents nowadays, and manufactures
The Keyboard also with that -- Uh! -- W-key:

http://www.pckeyboard.com/customizer.html


....And they're only about $70 USD, which for a keyboard that'll last a
decade, that's *cheap*!

OM
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Old October 28th 07, 06:13 AM posted to sci.space.history
Scott Hedrick[_2_]
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"OM" wrote in message
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:44:00 -0400, "Scott Hedrick"
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"OM" wrote in message
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IBM made those keyboards to last!


Hence IBM is out of the personal computer business.


...That had damn near AbZero to do with it.


Son, that was a joke, reminiscent of the gum commercials showing the gum
company going out of business because people only needed to buy one stick,
since it lasted forever.


 




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