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geekhack Community => Input Devices => Topic started by: ch_123 on Sat, 23 January 2010, 14:24:03
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I was just thinking, if they went to the effort of producing green keyboards for their Industrial PCs, did they bother doing the same for their mice? Bare in mind that IBM didn't make their own mice, so that might have made it less likely.
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I've seen photos of PS/2 ones, and ones with CD drives. Don't remember seeing a mouse with them though.
On the flipside, my Dad's office used to be up in a factory of a large multinational company, and the machines on the floor there used to run DOS up as late as the Windows XP days. I'm sure the story was the same for other places.
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MS-DOS still powers many more machines than the average person would think. Next time you head on down to the super market, take a look at the computers they use. I've spotted some 122-key Model M's there, as well as one in the farm equipment store in my town. I have also seen many check-out computers running MS-DOS at the super market. At the public library, there's a whole bunch of Model M's. And on most airlines, the computers rely on Windows 3.1.
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on most airlines, the computers rely on Windows 3.1.
No wonder there are so many ticketing SNAFUs.
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Windows 3.1 is as reliable as any other good operating system today. It's just that it's old.
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Windows 3.1 isn't an operating system.
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Windows 3.1 is as reliable as any other good operating system today. It's just that it's old.
So you can use Windows 3.11 as a web server and keep the machine up and running for 10 years straight without any crashes or restarts?
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Windows 3.1 is as reliable as any other good operating system today. It's just that it's old.
Windows 1-3 aren't operating systems any more than Desqview, dosshell, and their ilk. They don't provide core services of an OS; they add services to MS-DOS.
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Windows 3.1 is a GUI for DOS and when I referenced it, I figured you all knew that already.
If you put Windows 3.1 in an environment which it was designed for, it will perform perfectly well. But it wasn't designed with high-speed Internet and modern computers in mind. But, at the library, it'll do just fine at counting which books are there and which are not; it'll have no trouble on a computer at a supermarket check-out; nor will it have any difficulty playing Railroad Tycoon. But that's about it.
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Windows 3.1 is a GUI for DOS and when I referenced it, I figured you all knew that already.
If you put Windows 3.1 in an environment which it was designed for, it will perform perfectly well. But it wasn't designed with high-speed Internet and modern computers in mind. But, at the library, it'll do just fine at counting which books are there and which are not; it'll have no trouble on a computer at a supermarket check-out; nor will it have any difficulty playing Railroad Tycoon. But that's about it.
Valid point for sure - it'll do the job if the needs are basic.
Back to Industrial mice. I think it's safe to say they existed, but not how has been proposed in this thread:
(http://www.clickykeyboard.com/2006/06h4173/06h4173-005.jpg)
Presumably there were older incarnations, coinciding with the original M13 being released?
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The only Industrial M13's I ever seen were made in the late '90's by Unicomp.
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Olive grey IBM mouse?
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=7877&stc=1&d=1266246478)
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I think we have a winner.
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Moar info!
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It is now my goal to obtain one for $5.
And watch, I will. I have local hookups for this stuff.
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Nice logo.
...haven't seen that style before?
I've got two mice in the same plastic shell, just with different colour plastic. Unfortunately, the only thing the logo is good for is accumulating dirt.
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Uh oh, looks like I need to get out more.
Failed on account of not seeing the presence of a test to begin with.
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Wow. I even posted it in Size 5 font.
I realize this now.
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18/20 ripster... Not familiar with Maria Callas and I've never seen Ansel Adams before... I wasted so much time trying to spell "John Huston" "Dalai Lama" and "Amelia Earhart". I tried Ali twice and just typed "Cassius Clay" and it accepted it... pretty cool I thought. Nice test, now I have to read up on Maria Callas... I kept trying different spellings for "Sophia Loren".
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15/20. I have heard of all of them, but I did not recognize some of their pictures (Bob Dylan and Ted Turner were good examples). I have seen both of them, but those pics are from time periods where I don't recognize them. Good quiz, though.
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Lol, I didn't and won't post a score. A lot of these are people I really should know and didn't.
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A lot of these are people I really should know and didn't.
That's the problem with this quiz. It doesn't test you on if you know who these people are from a historical context and why they're important. It tests you on if you would recognize them in the street. Perhaps that's valuable in a certain respect, but IMO, it's more valuable to know why they're important than know what they look like.
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That's the problem with this quiz. It doesn't test you on if you know who these people are from a historical context and why they're important. It tests you on if you would recognize them in the street. Perhaps that's valuable in a certain respect, but IMO, it's more valuable to know why they're important than know what they look like.
Hmm...true.
Not feeling as bad now. At least a few of them, I coulda told you what they'd done to be historically significant if you said their names.
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Missed Callas, Mandela, and Sinatara. I'm uncultured swine.