Computer thread.

[methimpikehoses]

Talk about them here. No console bull****, and no open source poppy****.

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[Viral]

To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo’ or other words like it as permanent names for anything. In filenames, a common convention is that any filename beginning with a metasyntactic-variable name is a scratch file that may be deleted at any time.

To some extent, the list of one’s preferred metasyntactic variables is a cultural signature. They occur both in series (used for related groups of variables or objects) and as singletons. Here are a few common signatures:

foo, bar, baz, quux, quuux, quuuux…: MIT/Stanford usage, now found everywhere (thanks largely to early versions of this lexicon!). At MIT, baz dropped out of use for a while in the 1970s and ’80s. A common recent mutation of this sequence inserts qux before quux.

[methimpikehoses]

Good stuff, Viral. Keep that **** rolling off your tongue.

[ViN86]

148Rm-KcP2k

[methimpikehoses]

You get a cookie for that excellent contribution, vincent.

[ViN86]

why thank you. now look at this.

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[methimpikehoses]

You need new shoes, but this is not the correct thread for such discussion.

[Bman212121]

148Rm-KcP2k

:rofl!!!!!!!!

[ViN86]

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[bob saget]

HAI

[bob saget]

HELLO

[methimpikehoses]

HELLO

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[Bearclaw]

I GOT SOMETHING I GOT SOMETHING!!!


The original 1981 IBM PC's keyboard at the time was an extremely reliable and high quality electronic keyboard originally developed in North Carolina for the Datamaster system [15]. Each key was rated to be reliable to over 100 million keystrokes. For the IBM PC, a separate keyboard housing was designed with a novel usability feature that allowed users to adjust the keyboard angle for personal comfort. Compared with the keyboards of other small computers at the time, the IBM PC keyboard was far superior and played a significant role in establishing a high quality impression. For example, the industrial design of the keyboard, together with the system unit, was recognized with a major design award. [3] Byte magazine in the fall of 1981 went so far as to state that the keyboard was 50 percent of the reason to buy an IBM PC. The importance of the keyboard was definitely established when the 1983 IBM PCjr flopped, in very large part for having a much different and mediocre Chiclet keyboard that made a poor impression on customers. Oddly enough, the same thing almost happened to the original IBM PC when in early 1981 management seriously considered substituting a cheaper but lower quality keyboard. This mistake was narrowly avoided by the advice of one of the original development engineers.

However, the original 1981 IBM PC's keyboard was severely criticized by typists for its non-standard placement of the Return and left Shift keys. In 1984, IBM corrected this on its AT keyboard, but shortened the 'backspace' key, making it harder to reach. In 1987, it introduced the enhanced keyboard, which relocated all the function keys and the Ctrl keys. The Esc key was also relocated to the opposite side of the keyboard.

Another criticism of the original keyboard was the relatively loud "clack" sound each key made when pressed. Since typewriter users were accustomed to keeping their eyes on the hardcopy they were typing from and had come to rely on the mechanical sound that was made as each character was typed onto the paper to ensure that they had pressed the key hard enough (and only once), the PC keyboard electronic "clack" feature was intended to provide that same reassurance. However, it proved to be very noisy and annoying, especially if many PCs were in use in the same room, and later keyboards were significantly quieter.

An "IBM PC compatible" may have a keyboard that does not recognize every key combination a true IBM PC does, such as shifted cursor keys. In addition, the "compatible" vendors sometimes used proprietary keyboard interfaces, preventing the keyboard from being replaced.

Although the PC/XT and AT used the same style of keyboard connector, the low-level protocol for reading the keyboard was different between these two series. An AT keyboard could not be used in an XT, nor the reverse. Third-party keyboard manufacturers provided a switch to select either AT-style or XT-style protocol for the keyboard.

[methimpikehoses]

You forgot to include footnotes.

[Bearclaw]

You forgot to include footnotes.

I'll leave a mark oin your foot... with my ****. Fill in the stars. Douchebag.

[methimpikehoses]

There are five stars in Benis.

[zer0]

100 million keystrokes wow...

[bacon12]

I'll leave a mark oin your foot... with my ****. Fill in the stars. Douchebag.

:lol2:

[Viral]

100 million keystrokes wow...

bob would wear it out in 1 day.

[bob saget]

my keystrokes love when i finger them :bleh:

[jcrox]

I'll soon have my PS3 running on my Linux machine and I will pwn you all

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[bob saget]

:wtf:

go take the pills

[jcrox]

Pills? :bleh:

[methimpikehoses]

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[ViN86]

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