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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Bonk on July 13, 2005, 08:30:38 am
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Chaos in computer performance (http://arxiv.org/pdf/nlin.AO/0506030) (PDF)
I have read studies of the effect of human will on chaotic processes... I was convinced of the correlation. This reinforces my computer "superstitions"; talk nicely to it, give it a pat when its being good... ;D
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When mine misbehave I offer it a glass of water...
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drb's old AST once survived a good long drink of beer - Moosehead Red I think it was... it seemed to like it! ;D
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My old Gateway 486's keyboard survived a dousing with Diet Coke. I know, I really should have had real Coke.
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Old IBM keyboard will survive a direct nuclear attack. ::)
Using one will deafen you though ;D
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Old IBM keyboard will survive a direct nuclear attack. ::)
Using one will deafen you though ;D
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
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I really LOVE the Focus company of Taiwan's keyboards; they still click as you type (ahh, gives me that satisfying end to the keystroke), but it's that that loud metallic click of the old IBM keyboards.
I'm typing on a Focus FK-2001 right now. Unfortunately they have discontinued it and I don't know if they make a clicky keyboard anymore. It was cheap, too, like somewhere between $5-8, USD.
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Older Keytronics keyboards are my favorite, indestructable. (Like the old IBMs too)
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I have forgotten what the Keytronics ones are like; was it a softer, though quite audible and palpable click like the Focus or the more metallicky feeling and sounding one like the IBM?
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Softer than the IBM, without the click, but still relatively firm keys.