[GreenKeys] [Greenkeys} Saturday Pix

[tony.podrasky]

GA OMs;

A long time ago, when I worked for Data General in New York, I had to 
replace a keyboard on one of a customer's monitors.

When I opened the box, I saw that it was a German Keyboard (why we had 
it in stock in NYC I'll never know).

The customer was standing right there, and he was a pretty cool guy - 
and VERY SHARP, so I said to him: "Looks like they sent us a German 
Keyboard. I'll order the correct one when I get back to the office, but 
this will hold you overnight."

He said: "Is anything going to be different?"

I said: "The keys are marked different but will send out the same codes 
as the US keyboard. The only thing you'll notice that's different is 
when you press CTRL-G, instead of it ringing the bell, it will go OOOM-PAH".

He replied (instantaneously): "When you press CTRL-G on a Scottish 
keyboard, does it go HOOT-MON?"

I broke up!

The next 5 minutes were spent discussing the sound CTRL-G makes on 
keyboards from other countries.

British: Blimey, Mate!
French: Zut Alors!
Japanese: Ah So!
Canada: A!


73,
W6ESE - tony
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On 01/26/2013 09:32 AM, Wa3frp wrote:
>  >Now I've been receiving these pics on my M32 which was a Telex
> machine, and
>  >I've been meaning to ask the group- Are there any characters that were
>  >coded differently due to keyboard location for Telex than "regular"
> Baudot?
> Hi Cory,
> There are three big differences.
> 1. FIGS-J is Bell in the International Telex system while hams and the
> US use FIGS-S for Bell.
> So, you may hear "bells" instead of receiving the apostrophe ( ' ).
> 2. Telex uses FIGS-D for the answerback request or who-are-you command
> and you will probably print a German cross
> instead of the dollar sign ( $ ) that a ham machine will normally print.
> 3. You will find that FIGS-F is dollar sign ( $ ) on a Telex machine
> while most hams have FIGS-F set up as
> an exclamation point ( ! ).
> GL and 73
> Russ WA3FRP - former Western Union Telex Manager in Philadelphia
>

-- 
Tony J. Podrasky | MicroSoft error messages written in Haiku:
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                  |         Three things are certain:
                  |         Death, taxes and lost data.
                  |         Guess which has occurred?