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Article #919Re: Keyboard wear
From: sewti
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:50
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:50
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On 21 Apr 2002 18:26:48 -0700, do_not_spam_me@my-deja.com (do_not_spam_me) wrote: >"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<a9usgr$6dp8s$1@ID-69072.news.dfncis.de>... > >> Bashing the seller about the ears with the keyboard under warranty >> appears to be a much more viable route than cheap keyboards basically. > >Today's keyboards are too light to be effective as weapons, unlike the >old IBM XT and 84-key AT keyboards that weigh three times as much >(almost 6 lbs. - I mailed several) and automatically add 5 years to a >prison sentence for assault and battery. tell me about it. I have an IBM warhorse here. Remember when I bought it ages ago. Brought up to the checkout clerk handing it to him, and kerplunk boom onto the counter. He's like "what is in this box?". Six pounds, eh? lol It is the steel backplate in them, unlike the piece of plastic with painted on traces or whatnot in kbs now. I liken it to the old ma bell telephones. When you got an ATT/ma bell phone back then, you only had to pick it up to know it was the general article. You dropped that handset on your foot and You hurt. A lot. Phone was fine.
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