31 May
2016
31 May
'16
3 p.m.
I think I'm using an M. The label was removed long ago. At home I have
a couple of the version that came with an industrialized version that
went with ditto rack mount PS/2 of some flavor. The company I worked
at was buying around 20 a month and even though the product they went
into never used the keyboard or mouse, you got the who package.
Keyboard,
mouse, PS/2 on floppies even though it had a CD reader, etc etc. The
only thing different on the keyboard and mouse was the color was a
dark gray.
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Tue, 31 May 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
It might be interesting to poll the list to see who's still using an IBM
Model M keyboard on their x86 box. I am.
Windows key? What Windows key? ;)
The one with the picture of a dry-rot window Do you mean [Ctrl[Esc]?
Best way to represent the above?
30? years ago, I created a special key-top font for discussing keystrokes in
documentation. IIRC, I had two versions of [Ctrl], [Alt], and [Shft] One
version had no right hand edge, to reinforce the idea that it was used in
combination with another key. LJ/DJ and Cordata, never got around to
completing a postscript version, nor Truetype, when that came along.
I also did LJ/DJ and Cordata screen printing fonts. Used, mostly as full
screen images, along with my TSR, for a lot of Sybex books.
regular, inverse, and bold, in a couple of resolutions, such as 9x12.
Did you know that according to HP, it is "IMPOSSIBLE" to print an inverse
font? I'm glad that I didn't know until after I succeeded. (Wiley E. Coyote
principle of project implementation).
Never did come up with a good representation for blinkking text.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com