On 2017-03-22, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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On 2017-03-21, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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On 2017-03-20, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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O.K. An under-workbench-top pull-out keyboard shelf could help,
too.

That's what I have here, with a coffeeproof "medical" keyboard the
same width as a laptop's to leave room for the mouse pad, and a small
light under the desk to illuminate it without needing much room light,
as the keyboard's backlight is ineffective.

O.K. I have one of those keyboards from a hamfest, after seeing
them in the emergency room, but at least the one which I have appears to
require varying (sometimes excessive) pressures for different keys.
(Also, I really like Sun keyboards, which offer extra keys which the OS
(Solaris 10) uses well. For Linux and most other OSes, the extra keys
are pretty much useless. :-)

No need for coffeeprofing -- but at one period,
Coca-Cola-proofing would have been a help. :-) (At least that washes out
fairly well, and draining the keyboard afterwards and letting it dry for
a couple of days. The old TI Silent-700 keyboard actually survived a
dose of squirrel urine with a similar washing and drying. :-)

I normally have two laptops on the static mat and the speakers, 19"
and 22" monitors that extend the laptop screens on the shelf above.
The woofer is on a shelf underneath. The remote temperature displays
for my woodstove and the food cooking on it are above the monitors. I
get a lot of use from this small space.

O.K. I don't normally use speakers on the computers -- good
quality headphones when I care about the sound -- and not interfere with
what my wife is listening to.

I modified a reclining office chair by replacing the arms with angle
plates that raise the back to be a headrest and let it roll out of the
way under the keyboard.

Sounds like an interesting modification.

DOS was fine in real time before SpeedStep, ...

I've never encountered SpeedStep. Which DOS did it first appear
in?

http://www.overclock.net/t/376099/sp...n-i-told-it-to

Interesting. At least that suggests that it can be disabled.
Since I doubt that it would recognize something not written or blessed
by Microsoft to tune the CPU speed. :-)

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Add LabVIEW and a GPIB card and that's exactly what it is.

Bub -- before those were available, it was easier to get an HP

Sorry -- that should have been "But" not "Bub". Spelling
checker considered it valid, so it did not call my attention to it.
Not
a word I normally use.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bubbala

I'm familiar with it in various flavors -- I just normally don't
*use* it, and certainly would not have typed it there intentionally.

I wonder how many cycles of exchanges are left before my system
starts objecting to the length of the "References: " header, and I have
to manually trim it? :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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