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echo: os2hw
to: WILL HONEA
from: MIKE RUSKAI
date: 1998-03-28 23:00:00
subject: motherboards and os/2

Some senseless babbling from Will Honea to Mike Roark
on 03-28-98  11:24 about motherboards and os/2...
 WH> Mike Roark wrote to Mike Ruskai on 03-23-1998
 
 MR> It seems that with the new ones, everyone wants to put the
 MR> backslash in a  different place.. ;-) I'll keep this 7 years old
 MR> one, and  keep cleaning it once in a while.. 
 WH> I bitched about that slash for years - then found one that tops that. 
 WH> It even beats out the 'WIN' kb for irritation value.  Went to work on
 WH> a contract and they sat me in front of a Compaq.  The keyboard has all
 WH> the keys in the 'right' place, but they split the space bar in half
 WH> then made the left half a BACKSPACE KEY!  I spent the first 3 days
 WH> erasing half of what I wrote as I left-thumbed the sapce bar, then the
 WH> next 2 days figuring out how to re-map that stupid thing!
Cripes.  It wouldn't last 3 minutes with me.  I'd pilfer the nearest 
sensible one in a second.
Mike Ruskai SA/AG #1106
thanny@home.com
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