[ale] Broken Keyboard, help?

[Linda L. Hull.]

Brian, Jim P. and James P. Kinney III,

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

I did have to reboot to get my IBM Model M working again.

http://www.clickykeyboard.com/

Apparently the BIOS won't see it if it gets disconnected.

It's good to have a spare USB keyboard lying around, plugged
in along with the PS/2.

I went looking for another quiet one that doesn't make any
noise, the clicks keep people awake and they can also tell
I'm typing while on the phone. *sssh!* 
Micro-Center didn't have any QUIET USB keyboards except
the one I bought that didn't work. Most of them have horribly 
noisy cheap plastic space bars which rattle! 

Under $20.00 you won't get much.

I'll go back and look in a few days, wonder if they
will mind if I just plug them in somewhere to try them?

Bless you all,

Linda 


On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:50:30PM -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Linda,
> 
> Sounds like a no fun day on your end.
> 
> But I have good news. vim will recover any files left open after a
> sudden crash/non-save-event. 
> 
> You can save your peace of mind by simply plugging in the USB keyboard
> directly with he PS2 still plugged in. The USB stuff will let you run
> two keyboards at the same time.