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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: erricrice on Thu, 19 August 2010, 23:11:42

Title: Sandy55
Post by: erricrice on Thu, 19 August 2010, 23:11:42
What's his story?  Does anyone know?

Feel free to answer yourself sandy if you're around.

You have made countless contributions to this site, and I'm just wondering where you get all these keyboards and information from??
Title: Sandy55
Post by: wellington1869 on Thu, 19 August 2010, 23:16:24
he is a genius. hangs out at keyboard mania i think. dont know where he got the tech info but i've never seen it anywhere else but on his site. maybe he's a technical manual stealing ninja at night.
Title: Sandy55
Post by: maxlugar on Thu, 19 August 2010, 23:26:45
Quote from: erricrice;214789
What's his story?  Does anyone know?

Feel free to answer yourself sandy if you're around.

You have made countless contributions to this site, and I'm just wondering where you get all these keyboards and information from??


All I know is that Sandy-san has excellent taste in keyboards.  

Out of the hundreds of keyboards and key switches meticulously documented by Sandy, his comments and posts reveal he believes the capacitive IBM PC AT 84-key Model F is the pinnacle of keyboards...for a wide variety of reasons.  

Grasshopper humbly concurs with Master Sandy.  :)
Title: Sandy55
Post by: iMav on Thu, 19 August 2010, 23:28:04
Sandy still lurks around here from time to time.
Title: Sandy55
Post by: ch_123 on Fri, 20 August 2010, 05:08:41
Some say that he was abandoned in a reed basket at the door of the Alps factory as a baby...
Title: Sandy55
Post by: erricrice on Fri, 20 August 2010, 11:18:33
Quote from: wellington1869;214791
he is a genius. hangs out at keyboard mania i think. dont know where he got the tech info but i've never seen it anywhere else but on his site. maybe he's a technical manual stealing ninja at night.


That's the thing that gets me is keyboards can survive the years no problem, but he's got all the documentation to go with it!
Title: Sandy55
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 20 August 2010, 14:07:23
Quote from: erricrice;214966
That's the thing that gets me is keyboards can survive the years no problem, but he's got all the documentation to go with it!


There is an explanation. The first part being that if you really like something, or literature, you'll find it: I've found lots of old manuscripts that otherwise would be forgotten.
Secondly, go to a library. There's lots of offline sources that have things the internet doesn't. I've come to realize this a long time ago.
Title: Sandy55
Post by: microsoft windows on Fri, 20 August 2010, 14:30:30
You're very right. The Internet is a vast resource of information, but it doesn't have everything.
Title: Sandy55
Post by: Voixdelion on Sat, 21 August 2010, 14:30:37
Wow.  That just brought back memories.  I fondly recall borrowing lps from the children's section as a kid, sorting through card catalog drawers as a teen, a scrap of paper and a bunch of numbers as my only guide through the stacks in three floors worth of books at the Inglewood library- GO Dewey Decimal!!   Come to think of it, I actually still have a current library card...in my wallet even!  oooh!  Poll time!