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Typewriter As Keyboard Mod
ummit writes "Erik Fitzpatrick did a nice job turning an old Smith-Corona manual typeriter into a functional keyboard, and composed a nice writeup about it, with pictures."
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A good keyboard that clicks with tactile feedback when you use it
*click* *click* *click* "It was a dark and stormy night" *click* *click* *click*
Table-ized A.I.
Emacs is gonna be a bitch with that thing.
I can almost picture one of my relatives using a computer with a type-writer keyboard. I'll get a call about the typewriter not working. I'll show up to find the monitor covered in White-Out. And smashed on the floor after they pushed it left and off the desk at the end of the line.
.. to avoid having a Windows key.
Yeah, people never actually got any work done with typewriters. They were just playing around for about a hundred years until real keyboards came along.
At a sucky temp job I had this spring, I took to using the lower case L instead of the 1 key part of the time while entering data. I mean, they had us spending half the day typing the data into Fricking Excel, instead of doing real testing.
It was a nice diversion to throw a little bit of an 'old school' wrench into that particular works.
resigned
There's still space in that thing for a whole computer.
How do you do Ctrl-Alt-Del on this keyboard?
"So sorry, but RESEARCH your work first please?"
Oh brother. Not only was that 'dupe' from 2 years ago, you're the only one who remembers it.
Man I'm getting tired of the dupe gestapo.
"Derp de derp."
What would be really bitchin is if you used the typewriter mod from TFA, and hooked that shit up to your pc and dot matrix printer!
... well aw hell.
Then, you could have the look and feel of a typewriter, but it would work (well, almost) like a real typewriter! Which would solve the problem, of
I would imagin that key logging would be as simple as placing a piece of paper in the typewriter