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
... Well, what about a point-ed stick?
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