Re: Now somebody tell me that Robin Chapman isn't a troll again?!

From: Richard Henry (rphenry_at_home.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:16:58 -0700

"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote in message
news:x5y8lpfion.fsf@lola.goethe.zz...
> jmfbahciv@aol.com writes:
>
> > In article <x57jt9gy2t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>,
> > David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> > >jmfbahciv@aol.com writes:
> > >
> > >> In article <nni2f0dpttduv2dmthe05akilg8n1sgu6a@4ax.com>,
> > >> David C. Ullrich <ullrich@math.okstate.edu> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >How could sci.math be "unsafe"?
> > >>
> > >> I just read a chapman reply; my oatmeal flew to the screen of my
> > >> TTY and I may even have some lodging in my keyboard. Sticky keys
> > >> may not be dangerous unless the repeat key gets stuck; however,
> > >> an intersection of flying oatmeal and electronic components may
> > >> not be safe.
> > >
> > >I have to warn against food involving sesame seeds. They come
> > >undone easily, and once stuck under a key, severely increase the
> > >typing resistance. After increasing problems in particular with
> > >"a", I figured out how to remove the keycaps from this computer
> > >after all.
> >
> > My space bar has decided to be sticky. I sure don't care for
> > auto-repeat [bring back the repeat key!]. I didn't know one, who is
> > a luser w.r.t. hardware, could take these things apart safely.
>
> In my youth, I owned a Nascom II. It came with a literally
> indestructible keyboard (completely without contacts: they worked by
> the changed inductivity of a coil when metal was moved into it). You
> could fairly easily pull out the keycaps if you needed to, and the
> mechanism for making the (full-sized) space bar move smoothly
> vertically wherever you happened to hit it was fully accessible. The
> cursor keys were to the left and right of the space bar; as there was
> just a single control key at its God-intended position (who needs Caps
> lock?), and no ALT, ALTGr, Win, whatever keys, there was quite enough
> space available there. As a result, the cursor keys were part of the
> 10 finger typing realm. If I ever wanted to earn a coolness award,
> I'd design a PS/2 interface for that ingenious thing of the past.

Suggestion: get a USB keyboard. Relabel the keys to be whatever you like.
Study the spec to find out how to re-interpret the keys appropriately.

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