[GTALUG] 40" 4k Philips Monitor for $699.95 at BestBuy, Jun. 8 and 9 only

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Jun 13 09:27:46 EDT 2016


On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:42:20AM -0400, Anthony de Boer wrote:
> My 26-year-old Model M has mellowed out quite a lot, actually, though
> I'll admit I can still hear myself type.
> 
> I have a new-old-stock Model M I bought as backup, and with a fresh set
> of keys it's a lot louder.  Well, I had that one til my wife discovered
> it and it's hers now.
> 
> Then there's the looks-like-an-M-but-quiet-keys one I'm using at work,
> cast aside after a coworker's departure, but I find I actually have to
> type *harder* than on a real M to reliably have keystrokes register.  The
> "8" key is particularly weak; someone must have been bashing away at way
> too many asterisks in C code.

Could have been wildcards in regex or shell scripts or command lines.

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Len Sorensen


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