Keyboards, was [rescue] desperately need a window manager

[Steve Sandau]

Gotta throw this in somewhere... Several years back (95?) when I worked
at a small college in Maine, I talked to one of the network techs who
came in to work on the server hardware (before I was allowed to). He
worked in a shop that specialized in working on college computer stuff.

The shop used to get some pretty abused equipment to repair/refurbish.
He told me that the one case that really mystified them was a VT100-type
terminal keyboard that came in with blood on it and several missing
keys. They replaced the keys, cleaned it up and sent it back out.

Later they heard the story: Some big football player was working on his
term paper and lost the file. He was pissed. He picked up the keyboard
and *flung* it. Well, it was 1) really heavy, having a fair amount of
metal in it, and 2) attached to a heavy terminal with a nice stretchy
cord. It flew across the room, around the terminal, and *smacked* him in
the head. That's my illustration of "what goes around comes around."

They just *don't* make keyboards like they used to...

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 10:50:58AM +1300, Kenneth Dunn wrote:
> > I love the way everyone in the house gets pissed off with me bashing
> > away on my IBM keyboard at 3:00 in the morning. A real keyboard is
> > something you can kill someone with, Model "M" forever.
> 
> Amy's the only person I know who was able to *kill* a Model M.
> 
> I dont know how.  Bad combination of cig ashes and coke.  She goes through
> "normal" keyboards about one every three months.  She's currently on one of
> those "Virtually Indestructible" keyboards from CompUSA; we'll see how it goes.
> 
> Bill
> 
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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Steve Sandau
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