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- From: spackman@disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de (Stephen Spackman)
- Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
- Subject: Re: Keyboard fun (Re: 8th wonder of the world)
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 13:19:23 GMT
- Organization: DFKI Saarbruecken GmbH, D-W 6600 Saarbruecken
- Lines: 48
- Message-ID: <SPACKMAN.93Jan27142437@disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de>
- References: <1993Jan27.074931.8474@csus.edu>
- Reply-To: stephen@acm.org
- NNTP-Posting-Host: disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de
- In-reply-to: roy@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu's message of 27 Jan 93 07:49:31 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan27.074931.8474@csus.edu> roy@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Rivet Head) writes:
- |Well get this: By pressing certain keys on my keyboard (num lock, caps
- |lock & scroll lock), I can turn these green lights on my keyboard on or off!
- |By repeatedly pressing them in a certain order, I can make it look like
- |one light is moving back & forth! All by itself! This fun game has
- |provided me with hours of fun.
- |
- |Now if yer a rebel like meself and ya wants to haves yerself some real
- |fun, try this:
- |
- |Press Ctrl, Alt, and Del all at the same time! Go ahead, try it now!
- |It'll be fun, I promise!
-
- No, it's boring.
-
- I don't know if it is because my machine is so quiet, so expensive or so
- new, but the little lights are INSIDE the caps lock, compose, scroll
- lock and num lock keys, BUT only the caps lock key light seems to work!
- THAT one yOu can toGGle ALl yoU WanT AND IS QuITe FuN. I can SEE thAT.
- But the compose key doesn't light up it just prints line gno∞▀δ. Num
- lock is numb - is that how it got its name? And scroll lock kills the
- window it's hit over (which is why this is my fifth attempt to recount
- to you the excitement I'm having here. I'll just be careful not to press
- it again, here...).
-
- I don't know why they call THAT scroll lock. I mean, a dead programme
- doesn't scroll any more it's true but I don't think it's a lock so much
- as a kill.
-
- Hell, there isn't even an L1 key anymore, though Stop-A does the funky
- stunt. God I love boot monitors.
-
- Hey! Here's a theory! Maybe the blank key at the top left, next to Help,
- is, like, an anti-function-key and is sucking up the functions of the
- normal keys!!!!
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- Posting Dispatches from the Land of the Type Five Keyboard
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- ps: by way of compensation, the display of blinkenlights you get when
- you powercycle this sucker just makes my day. God is it cool! I toggle
- the power switch two or three times an hour just to relax and get
- ready for work. It hasn't worked yet - I'm still not ready - but what
- do I care???? They're so GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! Blink blink ... blink!
-
- Type safely, and have a stupid day!!!!
-