stumped...what is this keyboard enclosure for?
stumped...what is this keyboard enclosure for?... claim it as worth saving historically.
I sent Bill some private comments, in more detail. Briefly, I suggested it's an artifact typical of the 1970's or so, when individuals made one-off things for purposes of now-vintage computing. It's attractive visually and shows some craft and design, in my opinion. It likely represents a kind of activity at some point in time. But since it was made for one purpose, it's not unreasonable for Bill to reuse it for another purpose. (Some would dismiss it, for those same reasons.) So, he can preserve the artifact, or preserve the photo, and interpret either based on what he knows about it - his choices. Any significance would likely be happenstance. - Herb Johnson Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net
http://tech.cyborg5.com/files/2016/01/gateway124.jpg looks to be a match to a gateway 2000. So I agree it's probably a kiosk cover. Someone want it, come get it otherwise it's my new guitar pedal holder. On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
stumped...what is this keyboard enclosure for?...
claim it as worth saving historically.
I sent Bill some private comments, in more detail. Briefly, I suggested it's an artifact typical of the 1970's or so, when individuals made one-off things for purposes of now-vintage computing. It's attractive visually and shows some craft and design, in my opinion. It likely represents a kind of activity at some point in time. But since it was made for one purpose, it's not unreasonable for Bill to reuse it for another purpose. (Some would dismiss it, for those same reasons.)
So, he can preserve the artifact, or preserve the photo, and interpret either based on what he knows about it - his choices. Any significance would likely be happenstance. - Herb Johnson
Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net
Bill, If you want a Gateway 2000 AnyKey keyboard to go with it, I have one here I have no need for. Cute fact about the AnyKey keyboard: it was one of the few AT/PS2 keyboards which completely ignores the repeat rate set/delay commands sent from the PC side, since there is a set of keys on the keyboard itself to adjust it. This caused headaches for many users who accidentally changed the settings, and couldn't figure out why the key repeat rate and delay were not changing when adjusted on the PC! On 5/18/2017 12:21 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
http://tech.cyborg5.com/files/2016/01/gateway124.jpg
looks to be a match to a gateway 2000. So I agree it's probably a kiosk cover. Someone want it, come get it otherwise it's my new guitar pedal holder.
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
stumped...what is this keyboard enclosure for?...
claim it as worth saving historically.
I sent Bill some private comments, in more detail. Briefly, I suggested it's an artifact typical of the 1970's or so, when individuals made one-off things for purposes of now-vintage computing. It's attractive visually and shows some craft and design, in my opinion. It likely represents a kind of activity at some point in time. But since it was made for one purpose, it's not unreasonable for Bill to reuse it for another purpose. (Some would dismiss it, for those same reasons.)
So, he can preserve the artifact, or preserve the photo, and interpret either based on what he knows about it - his choices. Any significance would likely be happenstance. - Herb Johnson
Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net
-- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com
Thanks, but nah...better used as a guitar pedal holder. On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Bill, If you want a Gateway 2000 AnyKey keyboard to go with it, I have one here I have no need for.
Cute fact about the AnyKey keyboard: it was one of the few AT/PS2 keyboards which completely ignores the repeat rate set/delay commands sent from the PC side, since there is a set of keys on the keyboard itself to adjust it. This caused headaches for many users who accidentally changed the settings, and couldn't figure out why the key repeat rate and delay were not changing when adjusted on the PC!
On 5/18/2017 12:21 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
http://tech.cyborg5.com/files/2016/01/gateway124.jpg
looks to be a match to a gateway 2000. So I agree it's probably a kiosk cover. Someone want it, come get it otherwise it's my new guitar pedal holder.
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
stumped...what is this keyboard enclosure for?...
claim it as worth saving historically.
I sent Bill some private comments, in more detail. Briefly, I suggested it's an artifact typical of the 1970's or so, when individuals made one-off things for purposes of now-vintage computing. It's attractive visually and shows some craft and design, in my opinion. It likely represents a kind of activity at some point in time. But since it was made for one purpose, it's not unreasonable for Bill to reuse it for another purpose. (Some would dismiss it, for those same reasons.)
So, he can preserve the artifact, or preserve the photo, and interpret either based on what he knows about it - his choices. Any significance would likely be happenstance. - Herb Johnson
Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net
-- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com
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