From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 16 05:39:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA15169 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 05:39:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA15164 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 05:39:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26932; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:40:46 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990117004045.E26744@caamora.com.au> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:40:45 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good keyboards Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Dave Hummel on Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:17:34PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:17:34PM -0500, Dave Hummel wrote: > > I agree. I have one from an XT dated 1986, and it's the best keyboard I've > ever used. I beat on it, and it just keeps working. The only downfall is > that it's a little noisy for late night stealth computing. I wouldn't mind > getting a few more myself. i have three of them as well .. teh old xt type .. is it at all possible to get them to work in an ibm pc/at style keyboard 'port' .. a smallbalck box or someting like that .. most keyboards thes days .. ok a little while ago (grin) were pc/at and pc/xt harware compatible .. all yo had to do was flip a switch. i have one of teh pc/rt 's doing teh rounds and two new still in sealed plastic wrap as spares for when my currently long serving one wears out. anyway just a though regards jonathan, keeping sydney awake with my pc/rt machine gun .. -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message