Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-09-03 Thread Stuart Longland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 31/08/15 12:29, David Wright wrote: >> This is not supported by evidence, e.g. >>> > >>> I'm struggling to see how this reference backs up your assertion. > The use-case is

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-09-03 Thread Stuart Longland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 31/08/15 11:39, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sun, August 30, 2015 8:18 pm, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> Oh joy! forgive my nose, especially since I missed this post at >> first. Still, I am typing right now, this very moment, on a real >> IBM clic

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-08-31 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 09:18:42PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Oh joy! forgive my nose, especially since I missed this post at first. > Still, I am typing right now, this very moment, on a real IBM clicky > keyboard! > However the cable is starting to fray, and I was wondering if I > would be

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-08-30 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Doug, What a fine idea! I would much rather give this gem of a company my business than hunt aimlessly for someone to repair the cable as suggested by others. i am sure mine does not go that far back...yours must be such fun. Will get the numbers though and reach out to them. Thanks, ka

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-08-30 Thread Doug
On 08/30/2015 08:39 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, August 30, 2015 8:18 pm, Karen Lewellen wrote: Oh joy! forgive my nose, especially since I missed this post at first. Still, I am typing right now, this very moment, on a real IBM clicky keyboard! However the cable is starting to fray

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-08-30 Thread David Wright
[This quotes the missing post, which was accidentally sent off-list, in full] Quoting Carl Fink (c...@finknetwork.com): > > > On 08/30/2015 10:29 PM, David Wright wrote: > >Quoting Carl Fink (c...@finknetwork.com): > >>On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 07:54:11PM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > >> > >

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-08-30 Thread rlharris
On Sun, August 30, 2015 9:29 pm, David Wright wrote: > ... > but can hardly be considered adequate for a power-user of a > textual application where individual commands that have been used hundreds > of times will be typed without any conscious effort at all, rather like a > pianist plays ornaments

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-08-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Carl Fink (c...@finknetwork.com): > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 07:54:11PM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > > Eventually, at the stroke of midnight on 31 December A.D. 1999, M$ Word > > 5.0 for DO$ began writing garbage to the data files. This is one of the > > very few genuine "Y2K" bug

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-08-30 Thread rlharris
On Sun, August 30, 2015 8:18 pm, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Oh joy! forgive my nose, especially since I missed this post at first. > Still, I am typing right now, this very moment, on a real IBM clicky > keyboard! However the cable is starting to fray, and I was wondering if I > would be able to rep

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-08-30 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 07:54:11PM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Eventually, at the stroke of midnight on 31 December A.D. 1999, M$ Word > 5.0 for DO$ began writing garbage to the data files. This is one of the > very few genuine "Y2K" bugs. M$ had no patch, but offered instead a free > co

Re: the IBM keyboard

2015-08-30 Thread Karen Lewellen
ch to word processing. == Anyway, all this history comes to mind because I recall that there is something really strange about the IBM keyboard -- at least to anyone who types by touch. Looking today at a photograph of a mode M, I think that the problem is that IBM reduced th

the IBM keyboard

2015-08-30 Thread rlharris
never again to fall into the trap of proprietary software and proprietary encoding schemes. The use of plain text and markup is the only safe and sane approach to word processing. == Anyway, all this history comes to mind because I recall that there is something really st