<div dir="ltr">Not really, but I do like the old school hard click keyboards. Mentally, they just work better for me. The cheap stuff we have today, they're quiet and almost stealthy, but they get the job done.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 9:43 AM Jonathan Meek via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">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. <div><br></div><div>I feel like there’s been a minor pivot into hardware because I keep seeing multiple home brewed projects online. </div><div><br></div><div>Have you guys seen the same thing?</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 6, 2020, at 8:16 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I had an NEC cp/m laptop. Really nice keyboard.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On November 6, 2020 3:49:50 AM EST, Steve Litt via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<pre>On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 20:09:20 -0500<br>"SpaXpert, Inc. via Ale" <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(114,159,207);padding-left:1ex">I was hoping for some old cp/m portables, like kaypro, osborne etc...<br>Loved seeing the old serial terminals though, but they were not<br>documented much. Self taught 8080 assembly lang on a kaypro 2x in<br>the early 80's. Was an awesome machine with wordstar and a packaged<br>daisy wheel printer. Cost over $2k back then new.<br>Jeez, I'm dating myself too much.<br></blockquote><br>Nonsense. If you don't have a wife or girlfriend, by all means date<br>yourself. :-)<br><br>Seriously, I had a Kaypro 2x with two floppies and the same daisy wheel<br>printer (Juki). I didn't learn 8080 assembler, but with Turbo Pascal<br>2.0 I could make that machine do almost anything. And yes, Wordstar,<br>and the sweetest keyboard I've ever used. It was luggable, so I could<br>bring it to my girlfriend's house (when I wasn't dating myself) and<br>work there. There were even rudimentary graphics.<br><br>I used that machine to create a 100 page thesis for my Systems Analysis<br>class. It was based on my work at a company called Medi-Sec. A very<br>cool thing was that I put a graphical imitation of Medi-Sec's logo at<br>the upper left of each page. I did that by printing the the logos on<br>all the pages, then printing the text on those same pages.<br> <br>SteveT<br><br>Steve Litt <br>Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times<br><a href="http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive" target="_blank">http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive</a><hr>Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank">Ale@ale.org</a><br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool<span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Ale mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank">Ale@ale.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></span><br><span>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</span><br><span><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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