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Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD Run on This?
In-Reply-To: <199612100341.TAA20767@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from Satoshi Asami at "Dec 9, 96 07:41:32 pm"
To: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
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Satoshi Asami stands accused of saying:
>  * S3 card, and a Micro$oft keyboard, all in a 13 inch tower case.
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> If this is the "Natural", swap this at all costs.  It is the worst
> keyboard in the world, but I won't bore you with the details (I can
> write a 100-line message describing all the things that's bad about
> it...).

Oops, yes, concur!  I bought one as an experiment; it was horrible
(yes, I spent several weeks trying it out), and has only made my
wrists worse 8(

> Satoshi (sorry for the non-FreeBSD related message)

Not at all; if we intend to survive to work on FreeBSD, extermination
of those stupid keyboards is a must!

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