| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383666 ] |
Fr, 28 April 2006 18:45 |
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:40:21 UTC, Matt <paint [at] duluxthesh.aggydog.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:41:25 GMT, Mary Pegg
> <nospam [at] widetrouser.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
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> >Bob Eager wrote:
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> >> This PC keyboard (in constant daily use) was purchased in August 1992.
> >
> >This one's just coming up to its 17th birthday.
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> I can beat you all (I think) with an IBM Keyboard originally supplied
> with a PS2. The manufacturing label is still on the bottom dated the
> 27th November 1987, It's been in daily service from the first week of
> January 1988 - 18 years 3 months. It's built like the proverbial
> brick shithouse and the key action is better than anything I have come
> across since.
What do you think mine are? Nothing else lasts that long...! This one is
17-Feb-1992 and the older one is at work so I can't check.
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383667 ] |
Fr, 28 April 2006 18:59 |
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Bob Eager wrote:
> What do you think mine are? Nothing else lasts that long...! This one is
> 17-Feb-1992 and the older one is at work so I can't check.
Zackly. No other is worth refurbishing and reselling:
http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard_details.asp?PRODUCT=13
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383669 ] |
Fr, 28 April 2006 19:45 |
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"Matt" <paint [at] duluxthesh.aggydog.com> wrote in message
> I can beat you with an IBM Keyboard
No ads in uk.misc, pervy.
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383672 ] |
Fr, 28 April 2006 20:00 |
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Matt <paint [at] duluxthesh.aggydog.com> wrote:
[...]
> I can beat you all (I think) with an IBM Keyboard originally supplied
> with a PS2.
I've got a keyboard here from 1982 that still works just fine despite a good
hammering in education. Alas, it's rather solidly attached to the BBC B in
question and won't work on a PC.
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PGP key ID E85DC776 - finger abuse [at] mooli.org.uk for full key
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383677 ] |
Fr, 28 April 2006 21:23 |
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:59:44 GMT, Mary Pegg
<nospam [at] widetrouser.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>Bob Eager wrote:
>
>> What do you think mine are? Nothing else lasts that long...! This one is
>> 17-Feb-1992 and the older one is at work so I can't check.
>
>Zackly. No other is worth refurbishing and reselling:
>http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard_details.asp?PRODUCT=13
Fantastic! It's worth buying one as a spare just in case.
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383678 ] |
Fr, 28 April 2006 21:29 |
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On 28 Apr 2006 18:00:42 GMT, abuse [at] dopiaza.cabal.org.uk (Peter
Corlett) wrote:
>Matt <paint [at] duluxthesh.aggydog.com> wrote:
>[...]
>> I can beat you all (I think) with an IBM Keyboard originally supplied
>> with a PS2.
>
>I've got a keyboard here from 1982 that still works just fine despite a good
>hammering in education. Alas, it's rather solidly attached to the BBC B in
>question and won't work on a PC.
That beats my BBC B from 1984 - retired to a box in the loft 10 years
ago.
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383680 ] |
Fr, 28 April 2006 21:48 |
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In message <4Sr4g.1689$EM5.1314 [at] newsfe3-win.ntli.net>, Mary Pegg
<nospam [at] widetrouser.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>Bob Eager wrote:
>
>> What do you think mine are? Nothing else lasts that long...! This one is
>> 17-Feb-1992 and the older one is at work so I can't check.
>
>Zackly. No other is worth refurbishing and reselling:
>http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard_details.asp?PRODUCT=13
>
'Kin saddos
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geoff
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383681 ] |
Fr, 28 April 2006 21:48 |
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In message <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-zb0DBzHCMW2u [at] rikki.tavi.co.uk>, Bob Eager
<rde42 [at] spamcop.net> writes
>On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:40:21 UTC, Matt <paint [at] duluxthesh.aggydog.com>
>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:41:25 GMT, Mary Pegg
>> <nospam [at] widetrouser.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >Bob Eager wrote:
>> >
>> >> This PC keyboard (in constant daily use) was purchased in August 1992.
>> >
>> >This one's just coming up to its 17th birthday.
>>
>> I can beat you all (I think) with an IBM Keyboard originally supplied
>> with a PS2. The manufacturing label is still on the bottom dated the
>> 27th November 1987, It's been in daily service from the first week of
>> January 1988 - 18 years 3 months. It's built like the proverbial
>> brick shithouse and the key action is better than anything I have come
>> across since.
>
>What do you think mine are? Nothing else lasts that long...! This one is
>17-Feb-1992 and the older one is at work so I can't check.
>
Mine never last that long - alcoholic beverages are far too sticky
even when you've dismantled and thoroughly cleaned it
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geoff
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383682 ] |
Fr, 28 April 2006 21:50 |
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In message <4452584a$0$8341$da0feed9 [at] news.zen.co.uk>, Peter Corlett
<abuse [at] dopiaza.cabal.org.uk> writes
>Matt <paint [at] duluxthesh.aggydog.com> wrote:
>[...]
>> I can beat you all (I think) with an IBM Keyboard originally supplied
>> with a PS2.
>
>I've got a keyboard here from 1982 that still works just fine despite a good
>hammering in education. Alas, it's rather solidly attached to the BBC B in
>question and won't work on a PC.
Functioning 1981 BBC B keyboard here.
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bof at bof dot me dot uk
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383688 ] |
Fr, 28 April 2006 22:01 |
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Peter Corlett wrote:
> I've got a keyboard here from 1982 that still works just fine despite a good
> hammering in education. Alas, it's rather solidly attached to the BBC B in
> question and won't work on a PC.
Someone on one of the mini-itx project sites has put a mini-itx format
PC inside a BBC case and rewired the BBC keyboard matrix into a PC
keyboard controller, so possibly the reverse is possible?
Owain
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383689 ] |
Sa, 29 April 2006 00:02 |
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In message <80r452hfvkpv4pvg2j5tpisrl6g8f1i9sk [at] 4ax.com>, Matt
<paint [at] duluxthesh.aggydog.com> writes
>On 28 Apr 2006 18:00:42 GMT, abuse [at] dopiaza.cabal.org.uk (Peter
>Corlett) wrote:
>
>>Matt <paint [at] duluxthesh.aggydog.com> wrote:
>>[...]
>>> I can beat you all (I think) with an IBM Keyboard originally supplied
>>> with a PS2.
>>
>>I've got a keyboard here from 1982 that still works just fine despite a good
>>hammering in education. Alas, it's rather solidly attached to the BBC B in
>>question and won't work on a PC.
>
>That beats my BBC B from 1984 - retired to a box in the loft 10 years
>ago.
>
Yeah - I think I have a couple of them up there too ...
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geoff
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383690 ] |
Sa, 29 April 2006 00:05 |
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In message <1146257900.57983.1 [at] demeter.uk.clara.net>, Owain
<owain47125 [at] stirlingcity.coo.uk> writes
>Peter Corlett wrote:
>> I've got a keyboard here from 1982 that still works just fine despite a good
>> hammering in education. Alas, it's rather solidly attached to the BBC B in
>> question and won't work on a PC.
>
>Someone on one of the mini-itx project sites has put a mini-itx format
>PC inside a BBC case and rewired the BBC keyboard matrix into a PC
>keyboard controller, so possibly the reverse is possible?
>
These things are possible, but why would anybody actually do it ?
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geoff
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383692 ] |
Fr, 28 April 2006 23:48 |
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Owain wrote:
> Peter Corlett wrote:
>> I've got a keyboard here from 1982 that still works just fine despite
>> a good hammering in education. Alas, it's rather solidly attached to the BBC
>> B in question and won't work on a PC.
> Someone on one of the mini-itx project sites has put a mini-itx format
> PC inside a BBC case and rewired the BBC keyboard matrix into a PC
> keyboard controller, so possibly the reverse is possible?
Whoops, it's not the reverse you want to do is it, it's exactly the same.
Can't remember the URL but a google should find it. The site has black
backgrounds and mini itx PCs fitted in a variety of old computers and
domestic appliances.
Owain
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383693 ] |
Sa, 29 April 2006 00:55 |
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Matt <paint [at] duluxthesh.aggydog.com> wrote:
[...]
> Fantastic! It's worth buying one as a spare just in case.
Just in case you happen to live longer than the 100 years the keyboard will
last?
--
Before digital modems, the carrier tone was sung by pigeons who were
selectively bred by IBM for frequency-commonality; they lived in little
pigeonholes in the side of the modem (which itself was the size of a
refrigerator and did 110 baud half-duplex). - AdB in The Other Place
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383694 ] |
Sa, 29 April 2006 01:01 |
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Owain <owain47125 [at] stirlingcity.coo.uk> wrote:
> Owain wrote:
[...]
>> Someone on one of the mini-itx project sites has put a mini-itx format PC
>> inside a BBC case and rewired the BBC keyboard matrix into a PC keyboard
>> controller, so possibly the reverse is possible?
I occasionally visit the site in question. It's mainly saddos that decide
they need to install Windows XP on a tin of baked beans. There's some right
impressive works of art in amongst the dross though.
> Whoops, it's not the reverse you want to do is it, it's exactly the same.
*nods*
> Can't remember the URL but a google should find it. The site has black
> backgrounds and mini itx PCs fitted in a variety of old computers and
> domestic appliances.
It is, perhaps unsurprisingly, called mini-itx.com.
The hacked-about BBC is at http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/bbcitxb/
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Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for
seven hours, they always come out tender.
- W.C. Fields
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Sa, 29 April 2006 10:03 |
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383705 ] |
Sa, 29 April 2006 10:05 |
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In message <7hg452tj6jouk0cld17j5tbbbdm2lvsl11 [at] 4ax.com>, Matt
<paint [at] duluxthesh.aggydog.com> writes
>On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:41:25 GMT, Mary Pegg
><nospam [at] widetrouser.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Bob Eager wrote:
>>
>>> This PC keyboard (in constant daily use) was purchased in August 1992.
>>
>>This one's just coming up to its 17th birthday.
>
>I can beat you all (I think) with an IBM Keyboard originally supplied
>with a PS2. The manufacturing label is still on the bottom dated the
>27th November 1987, It's been in daily service from the first week of
>January 1988 - 18 years 3 months. It's built like the proverbial
>brick shithouse and the key action is better than anything I have come
>across since.
Is it one of those with detachable covers on the keys? We had one in
the college computer room and people used to take them off and put them
back in alphabetical order. A rather more subtle trick though was just
to swap the n and the m.
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Timothy
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| Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT] [message #383727 ] |
Sa, 29 April 2006 13:41 |
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On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:05:32 UTC, "me [at] privacy.net" <me [at] Privacy.Net>
wrote:
> In message <7hg452tj6jouk0cld17j5tbbbdm2lvsl11 [at] 4ax.com>, Matt
> <paint [at] duluxthesh.aggydog.com> writes
> >On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:41:25 GMT, Mary Pegg
> ><nospam [at] widetrouser.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>Bob Eager wrote:
> >>
> >>> This PC keyboard (in constant daily use) was purchased in August 1992.
> >>
> >>This one's just coming up to its 17th birthday.
> >
> >I can beat you all (I think) with an IBM Keyboard originally supplied
> >with a PS2. The manufacturing label is still on the bottom dated the
> >27th November 1987, It's been in daily service from the first week of
> >January 1988 - 18 years 3 months. It's built like the proverbial
> >brick shithouse and the key action is better than anything I have come
> >across since.
>
> Is it one of those with detachable covers on the keys? We had one in
> the college computer room and people used to take them off and put them
> back in alphabetical order. A rather more subtle trick though was just
> to swap the n and the m.
That's the ones. The famous Model M. I have enough spares in the shed to
last 150 years at this rate.
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