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"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." -- Ted Nelson
Joe Ess wrote:And just for the heck of it, here is an article on how the IBM Model M is the Best Keyboard Ever.
Guillermo Ishi wrote:
Joe Ess wrote:And just for the heck of it, here is an article on how the IBM Model M is the Best Keyboard Ever.
I had forgotten about those old IBM keyboards. I don't specifically remember the model M, but I do the model F. At the time I loved it and wouldn't have used any other keyboard. It was made out of sheet steel and weighed as much as a half gallon of milk. In that era weight equaled quality. If something had some heft it was good and considered well-made. The model F sounded like an electric typewriter. Things resemble the things they replace. This particular keyboard at least sounded like an electric typewriter, just as early autos resembled carriages.
I had the great pleasure to work with some of the guys who designed these keyboards, for about nine years. All of them were good and some of them were brilliant. My favorite was a guy with degrees in multiple engineering fields who spent most of his time improving a machine shop and tinkering there. He would come up with something and would whip up a human factors model and he'd come in and talk about it and we'd whip up some code to test it. Super fast, like nothing, we'd work out some problem.
One of them told me the keyboards were developed about a mile from the main IBM campus underneath a Big Lots that is built on a slope. Don't know if the Big Lots was there at the time. The main emphasis at that plant was IBM Selectric typewriters and the computer keyboards were a minor thing and got put over at Big Lots
Joe Ess wrote:
And just for the heck of it, here is an article on how the IBM Model M is the Best Keyboard Ever.
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." -- Ted Nelson
Tapas Chand wrote:...Lenovo and Sony Vaio laptops...
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Har Har. No, to program in LISP, once should use EMACS. Which happily consumes all those modifier keys.Campbell Ritchie wrote:Would a LISP keyboard need more than two keys, one for ( and one for ) ?
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
salvin francis wrote:I like keyboards having a numpad. The keys on top of the pad are: [Numslock] [ / ] [ * ] [ - ]
I don't know if the language creators actually intended this ...
The keys: [ / ] as well as [ * ] are quick ways of typing comments in Java or any other languages that support // and /* ... */ comments. Pair that with [ - ] key and you have good decoration banners in your code comments !! Sql Statements have the [ -- ] comment. Too bad keyboard manufacturers skip this section altogether.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Yes, that makes sense.Tim Holloway wrote:...Actually, the idea was that you could use the numeric pad as a calculator.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
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