Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny, for some reason your response jarred the neurons I've been trying to kick-start for the past couple days, and I was able to remember who made the guts of that Kaypro keyboard, and a number of other good ones: Keytronic! And speaking of writing on the Kaypro - when a number of us at Newsday bought them, a friend who would eventually become the paper's computer writer and I fiddled with WordStar - remember WordStar? - and came up with a loadable set of commands so that the keyboard was reasonably close to a clone of the paper's Atex system (the original, thick, Atex keyboards were great). We were, for abt. 5 minutes, convinced we'd make a fortune somehow marketing the fix, along with stick on key lables, but as it was really someone else's software, and was short lived, it was not to be. :-) ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com ..... Original Message ....... On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:49:50 EDT SonC@aol.com wrote: " " "In a message dated 4/12/2006 7:07:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time, "bdcolen@comcast.net writes: " "But the best computer keyboard ever had was that with the Kaypro -any former "Kaypro owner/users out there? CPM LUGgable with, as I recall, a pair of 5.5" "floppy drives. Metal case. Weighed a ton. And what a great keyboard. " "I meant to post that myself. I started with a Kaypro, because the keyboard "was a true clone of an IBM Selectric, big return key and all . The computer "looked like Air Force surplus something, but it was magic. " "I was helping edit a book that was being written on a Kaypro. I was so "impressed, I went out and bought one myself. Still remember driving with Adam "who wasn't even walking yet to the computer store. He's 21 now. " " " "Regards, "Sonny "http://www.sonc.com "Natchitoches, Louisiana "Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane "?galit?, libert?, crawfish " "_______________________________________________ "Leica Users Group. "See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information