Keyboards - oh, the clickyness (was:Re: Anyone know what is happening in DebianLenny?)

[Alex Snow]

Though that site is a bit expensive...I scored mine (has a 
manufacturered date of 1984) for free from a pile of useless computer 
junk that was being tossed, and I've seen them go for a few dollars at 
goodwill/other used crap stores.
On 
Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:08:24AM -0400, Nick Stockton wrote:
> *lol* I just started reading the article and the site that the guy gives 
> for buying the keyboards is the same one that I gave in the previous email. 
> It redirects to their yahoo store.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Keyboards - oh,the clickyness (was:Re: Anyone know what is 
> happening in DebianLenny?)
> 
> 
> >I've had one of these for about 6 or 7 years now...it was mainly used
> >my linux workstation, which has now been pretty much relegated to
> >basic server duties, so the keyboard doesn't get used all that
> >much...but I go back to it every once in a while, really like the
> >feel.
> >On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at
> >01:16:04PM -0500, Farhan wrote:
> >>Hello, I actually had one of these old IBM keyboards, I found it for four 
> >>dollars at a thrift store.
> >>it lasted for about six months before I got tired of it and got my apple 
> >>keyboard.
> >>
> >>On 6/19/2008 at 13:14 luke said
> >>Speaking of keyboards, here are three amusing and good articles from 
> >>Dan's
> >>Data, about a sighted guy and his pursuit of maximum clickyness.
> >>Be warned: if you don't regularly read Dan's Data (or even if you do), 
> >>you
> >>may find hours have gone by once you come up for air.
> >>
> >>http://www.dansdata.com/ibmkeyboard.htm
> >>http://www.dansdata.com/clickykeyboards.htm
> >>http://www.dansdata.com/clicky2.htm
> >>
> >>Luke
> >>
> >>
> >>On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Farhan wrote:
> >>
> >>> hello, out of curiosity have you checked out the apple keyboards? I 
> >>> just got one and I love the key action on it, its the best $50 you'll 
> >>> ever spend.
> >>> On 6/17/2008 at 21:21 Gaijin said
> >>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:09:20PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> >>> > consoles is controlled in /etc/inittab, I would start by looking 
> >>> > there
> >>>
> >>> That was the first thing I checked when I got a text console
> >>> working.  It was my stewpid keyboard at fault, with it's function key
> >>> toggle.  Not entirely sure what it does, beyond turning the keys on and
> >>> off, but that was the culprit preventing me from using the function
> >>> keys..  Sure wish they still made the Omnikey line of keyboards.  I
> >>> really loved that puppy...
> >>>
> >>> Michael
> >>>
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