Xref: utzoo alt.folklore.computers:11920 comp.sys.apple2:16137 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu!hoss!greg From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Worst keyboard of all time Message-ID: <1991May15.164316.3276@unlinfo.unl.edu> Date: 15 May 91 16:43:16 GMT References: <74JF02yy07J=01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1991May8.054426.18050@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991May12.183619.20562@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> Sender: news@unlinfo.unl.edu Organization: GBBS/ACOS Sysop Support Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: hoss.unl.edu I just remembered something, and thought of an interesting prank to pull. Just before I left my old high school, they had replaced half of the typewriters in the typing class with the platinum Apple //e computers, running AppleWorks I believe. I was wondering what would be involved in putting a device between the keyboard and motherboard so that whenever you typed a key, you'd get the sound of a ball typewriter. Include special sound for cursor positioning keys like spacebar, backspace, and return. Alternatively, some modification to AppleWorks that could play digitized sounds of these through the speaker for each character. Something that can be booted before AppleWorks to install, or something that can be added to an AppleWorks disk/program. I'd love to do that sometime to the teacher of that class. (He locks up everything. I remember a cabinet he had kept in the hallway with a simple hook on the inside to lock one door, and then a key to latch the other behind it, which could be opened by hitting the top of the door (where the hook was) sufficiently hard. (Later he changed the hook, which would then involve getting the door partially open and pushing the springloaded catch down out of the way.) Well anyway, anyone up to coding something like that? Crossposted to comp.sys.apple2 and alt.folklore.computers. -- /// ____ \\\ |"What? What's going on? Who's this?... Ladies and | |/ / \ \| | | Gentlemen, a big hand please for the Great Prophet Zarquon." \\_|\____/|_// |"Uh, thank you, sorry I'm late, so many things cropping up at greg \_\\\/ hoss | the last moment. How are we for time? Have I just got a min