From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 11 11:48:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA25169 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:48:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from THOR.INNOSOFT.COM (THOR.INNOSOFT.COM [192.160.253.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA25155 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from INNOSOFT.COM by INNOSOFT.COM (PMDF V5.0-7 #8694) id <01I6Y1RN80ZC8Y4WXW@INNOSOFT.COM>; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:47:14 -0700 (PDT) From: zounds@INNOSOFT.COM Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard In-reply-to: <9607101436.ZM14244@xsvr2.cup.hp.com> To: "Josef C. Grosch" Cc: Borja Marcos , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Josef C. Grosch wrote: > On Jul 10, 11:01pm, Borja Marcos wrote: > > Subject: FreeBSD keyboard > > Hello, > > > > I'm sure that most of you, like me, are terribly > > annoyed by the horrible Loose'95 logos present in modern > > keyboards. Be sure that standard keyboards will become rare > > soon. > > > > It has many problems. Not only the logo, but the tiny > > spacebar. Anyway, let's start to fight back the Bill Gates' > > attempts to put the logo in our computers. What about making > > a pair of tiny stickers featuring Chuck so that the Loose'95 > > keyboard becomes a BSD keyboard? Really, I would ind it much > > more pleasant to use. > > > > Perhaps WC could include them with the CD > > distribution. > > > >-- End of excerpt from Borja Marcos > > I agree. I went out last weekend to buy a new keyboard and had to play merry > hell to find a "normal" keyboard without that rotten `95 logo. Just rubs me the > wrong way to have to look at that thing as I type. Grrrrr. > > > Josef > All of the places that I went to trying to find a keyboard only had those freakin' loose'95 stickers on it, so i bought the el'cheapo model and took my exacto knife to those little emblams and scratched the little buggers of and wrote in big black letter (permant pen mind you) at the top of the keyboard, "NOT MICROSOFT COMPATABLE!" Deep down inside I know it is, but hey, you do what makes you feel good. :) Eric