9/08/2005
Keyboard
Usual day-off thrift store run. Got an IBM key board for $5--looks brand new--but the manufacture date printed on the bottom is 6/28/99. It has what is called 'buckling spring' action, little steel springs under each key. Newer keyboards mostly don't use this system, which ain't the most cost efficient way to go for the manufacturer. The keystroke also takes a smidge more force that some wimpy users would not like. Very positive action, fewer accidental keystrikes.
Watched an elementary physics physics demonstration put on by J C Sprott on the internet tonight. There is a whole archive of them at his website. I saw the first one which was from 1986, there were a lot of bearded men in the audience--a decade and a half late culmination of the 60's, eh?
Watched an elementary physics physics demonstration put on by J C Sprott on the internet tonight. There is a whole archive of them at his website. I saw the first one which was from 1986, there were a lot of bearded men in the audience--a decade and a half late culmination of the 60's, eh?
