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- From: mckeeveb@monashee.sfu.ca (Gumby - The unknown user)
- Subject: Re: keyboard hacks (was NSA Info...?)
- Message-ID: <mckeeveb.721623296@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <12NOV199219023883@utkvx3.utk.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:54:56 GMT
- Approved: hmmm...I_wonder
- Lines: 20
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- menees@utkvx3.utk.edu (Menees, Bill) writes:
-
- >DoomedHack: Trying to make the Atari 400 keyboard work with my Gateway 486,
- >just so I can spill my Jolt and not worry.
-
- I like it. You wouldn't happen to have a second keyboard I could use
- with my IBM 3151?
-
- ObHack: After breaking the picture tube in my IBM 3151 terminal, a
- sales-droid told me I could buy a new one for $780 Cdn. and I didn't
- feel like buying 4 to get the discount. So, I took an old VT100 I
- happened to have sitting around, and rigged up a retrofit. Took me
- a while to figure out that I had to adjust the capacitive load to get
- the vertical retrace to behave right.
-
- --
- Rob McKeever VE7ICJ rmckeeve@sfu.ca mckeeveb@sfu.ca 604-291-0457
- "Do you know what standards are? They're career paths for people who don't
- want to work!" - John Parkinson, Ernst & Young at the BCDMA Conference '92
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