[ale] OT: For hardware junkies

[Jonathan Meek]

I do find it interesting that from my pool of co-workers that mechanical keyboards have become all the rage along with modding those keyboards either via software or hardware. 

I feel like there’s been a minor pivot into hardware because I keep seeing multiple home brewed projects online. 

Have you guys seen the same thing?

Jonathan

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> On Nov 6, 2020, at 8:16 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> I had an NEC cp/m laptop. Really nice keyboard.
> 
>> On November 6, 2020 3:49:50 AM EST, Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 20:09:20 -0500
>> "SpaXpert, Inc. via Ale" <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I was hoping for some old cp/m portables, like kaypro, osborne etc...
>>> Loved seeing the old serial terminals though, but they were not
>>> documented much.  Self taught 8080 assembly lang on a kaypro 2x in
>>> the early 80's. Was an awesome machine with wordstar and a packaged
>>> daisy wheel printer. Cost over $2k back then new.
>>> Jeez, I'm dating myself too much.
>> 
>> Nonsense. If you don't have a wife or girlfriend, by all means date
>> yourself. :-)
>> 
>> Seriously, I had a Kaypro 2x with two floppies and the same daisy wheel
>> printer (Juki). I didn't learn 8080 assembler, but with Turbo Pascal
>> 2.0 I could make that machine do almost anything. And yes, Wordstar,
>> and the sweetest keyboard I've ever used. It was luggable, so I could
>> bring it to my girlfriend's house (when I wasn't dating myself) and
>> work there. There were even rudimentary graphics.
>> 
>> I used that machine to create a 100 page thesis for my Systems Analysis
>> class. It was based on my work at a company called Medi-Sec. A very
>> cool thing was that I put a graphical imitation of Medi-Sec's logo at
>> the upper left of each page. I did that by printing the the logos on
>> all the pages, then printing the text on those same pages.
>>  
>> SteveT
>> 
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