10 May
2000
10 May
'00
7:01 p.m.
I knew someone who had one of these gadgets back in the '70's. He wore out
a selectric in about two weeks.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: Keyboard actuator
At 01:08 PM 5/10/00 -0700, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)
wrote:
This is THE device that will transfer files to
ANYTHING. IF you can stop
laughing.
Sounds like fun. How could it come close to hitting any key on any
keyboard? Are the solenoids positionable?
Certainly in some situations, a parallel-to-serial conversion box
could capture the bitstream from an archaic computer. That route
would have the benefit of a buffer in most cases. Does this gizmo
have a buffer?
As such, it would be most useful for getting data *into* a system
that didn't have a way to import an ordinary text file. You could
even write filters to massage the stream in order to hit weird
key sequences to reformat the text.
- John