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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: Shawn Stanford on Wed, 21 October 2009, 07:20:24
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http://www.mamabargains.com/
(https://www.mamabargains.com/assets/images/products/mypc_greenkeyboard.jpg)
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Okay, and the point of such a thing is...?
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Hey, that's a nice compact layout! A little work with AHK and you've got a serious HHKB contender! :lol:
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It's for the Happy Hacking Kiddo in your life.
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Shawn, you really have this thing for wooden keyboards, don't you? ;)
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Cute.
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I doesn't have punctuation keys...
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A small hurdle for someone versed in AHK, Mr. Glass-Is-Half-Empty...
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Okay, and the point of such a thing is...?
Rugged, and you can stick the whole board in the dishwasher for one thing!
Seems a good idea for very young kids - safe for 2 year olds +.
(And I confess I saw the similarity to the HHKB too!!)
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Don't some printers still have DIP switches?
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Don't some printers still have DIP switches?
Not any that I'm aware of.
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they forgot a vowel...
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There probably are some dip switches somewhere on some of the big industrial-sized HP models, but I don't think they're terribly ubiquitous anymore. They were needed for serial and parallel models that had different methods of communicating.
I remember a combination keyboard/mouse combo for kids from years ago, where the keyboard had all the normal typewriter keys, a direction pad, and control/alt, and the mouse was a giant trackball with one button. Of course they were bright yellow, blue, green, orange, red...
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There probably are some dip switches somewhere on some of the big industrial-sized HP models, but I don't think they're terribly ubiquitous anymore. They were needed for serial and parallel models that had different methods of communicating.
I remember a combination keyboard/mouse combo for kids from years ago, where the keyboard had all the normal typewriter keys, a direction pad, and control/alt, and the mouse was a giant trackball with one button. Of course they were bright yellow, blue, green, orange, red...
You're implying something about Apple, aren't you?
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Actually I wasn't. In this case, the whole package was those colors, without any beige anywhere.
As for Apple, back when the iMac first came out and then a while after the color iMacs came out, I was browsing CompUSeless and in the Mac area four of the color iMac cases, with fake panels for the screen and no internals were shoved into a corner on a low shelf. I looked at these empty cases (which were there to demonstrate colors without having to stock four more whole computers) and went up to the manager to find out how much to buy one. He got a quizzical look on his face, asked me to hold on, and he went back to his office to do some checking. He came out about ten minutes later and apologized that he couldn't sell me one, because it turns out they were still Apple's property. He then asked me why I wanted one. I replied, "I want to make a fish tank!" He burst out laughing.
At this point I don't think anyone had made fishtanks out of the color iMac yet, because they were new and expensive. I wanted to be the first on the block with one and for people to wonder how/why...