19 Oct
2010
19 Oct
'10
12:21 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I have no intetnion to belittle those who collect machiens because of
their styling, all I will sway it that it's not _my_ primary interest.
Becasue of my hardware interests, i find beauty in a well-designed bit of
electronics, for example/
I certainly hope no one thought I was belittling someone's decision to
collect machines because of style, because that wasn't my intention.
:)
Indeed. Whike I generally keep the casaings on my
machines (at least when
I am not usinfg them :-), _I_ am not very interested in the styling. Some
people woould want an HP2623 terminal for the rather odd styling, I'm
interested in it because of the little state machine to draw lines. And
thus my inteest comes from the intnerals, and they have to work to be
interesting.
Same here. ?Styling is interesting (my kid was fascinated by the That aaid, I do like particularly unusual bits of
mechanical design too.
Like the HP9816 where all the PCBs apart from the PSU can be removed by
undoing 2 quarter-trun fasteners nad removing 1 screw.
I actually did mean that. He's only 14, so he's used to the keyboards
most in use these days, with F1-F12, Insert, Delete, etc. I think he
was fascinated by the differences in the QX-10 keyboard. He had never
seen anything like it.
Mark
keyboard on my QX-10 because of the special
function keys; he wondered
why newer machines didn't have those things).
Err, don't they? What are the 'F1' to 'F12' keys on this PC
keyboard,
then? The 'Insert', 'Delete', 'Home', etc keys. The
Windows-specific keys
(which the keyboard driver here does nothing with, but they're still on
this cheap keyboard)?
If you mean very special and specific keys, I guess they rather limit the
sort of software you can run, or at least which will make sensible use of
the keyboard.