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Typewriter As Keyboard Mod

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

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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  1. I suppose a good bonus... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    is that you can configure it to do you a hard copy as a backup.

    It's also made me reminisce about the lovely clatter of golfball printers back in the 80's... *sigh*

  2. Re:Dupe by seramar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Crying dupe's old and played out and just plain getting annoying. When you've seen the article before, you've seen it. Enjoy the new round of comments, or don't, and just move on. I didn't know this was a dupe. I hadn't seen the article before. Don't you dupe-catchers have much better to do with your time than go, "Oh I'm going to show my wealth of /. knowledge by catching a dupe and then wasting my time pulling up the old article and making a post, which I know at least five others will do." It's really tired.

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  3. No review? by Solder+Fumes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's no review from the wife. Funny, with millions upon millions of people using computers, you never hear the complaint about "flying through air and hitting wall" effect of computer keyboards. I've used manual typewriters, and my fingers were MUCH more tired after only an hour of typing. On a computer I can type for a full day and feel no fatigue.

    I suspect that his wife was merely using this as an excuse for computer incompetence. I've heard worse excuses from the luddites; evil rays coming from the LCD monitor, an anthropomorphic hatred emanating from the computer, and faking pressing the power button so they can pretend the computer's dead. I doubt this guy's wife actually liked this present, or will used it.

  4. Re:surprised by Nasarius · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I'm surprised that computer mods/case mods aren't more popular. They hit the /. community regularly, but I'm surprised we don't see them on TV or on other websites more often.

    Perhaps because most people, myself included, don't really give a crap what their computer looks like. Smaller and quieter is nice. But case windows and, neon lights and a pewter gargoyle on top? It's useless.

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  5. heads up, please? by Graymalkn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do you hate me so? This is going to kill my alotted bandwidth. Could I get a heads up before getting slashdotted?

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  6. Re:Crackers DO matter! by LordNightwalker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nah, I remember it too... Even without the pics I thought there was something familiar about the article...

    Anyway, since the dupe is 2 years old, doesn't that make it "not news anymore"? What the hell is 2 year old "news" doing on slashdot? Your argument stinks.

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