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From: PGOETZ@LOYVAX.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: broken keys, ROM copyright, COMPUTIST
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Date: 3 May 89 18:39:00 GMT
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Broken keys:  Well, if you subscribed to COMPUTIST, you would already know
how to replace a keyboard from my "Keyboard Repair" article in their a
few years ago.  I advise getting a keyboard from Radio Shack (I forget the
part #) which costs about $3, & removing its keyswitches.

Many of the questions which come up on Info-Apple have been answered in
COMPUTIST.  I don't understand why any serious Appler would mess around with
Nibble, InCider, A+, and all those other kiddie magazines.  Get COMPUTIST!
Learn assembly!  Save editor Charles Haight from losing his home (which he
put up as collateral on COMPUTIST's debts)!

COMPUTIST
PO Box 110946 (maybe 110846?)
Tacoma WA 98411
(206) 474 5750
$24/1 year, 8 issues

ROM copyrights:  Huh?  I'll never understand you guys.  Who CARES if it's
legal?  I mean, if you're just going to use it yourself & not sell it -
even if you're going to give it away free to a few friends - you're helping
the computing community by providing More Computer Power to the People!
Sometimes laws are just another form of Cybercrud!
[To all those hung-up on legal codes as their only source of morality because
they are too weak-minded to determine themselves whether an action is wrong
or right:  Send all the flames you like to my system manager!  I'm going to
lose this account when I graduate this month anyway!]

Regarding printers:  There's just no question in my mind.  Get the
Epson LQ-500.  I have one, and I LOVE it.  It is fantastic.  It does
everything I want a printer to do - letter-quality 24-pin head, draft mode,
sans serif, double-width, double-height, user-defined characters,
italics, underline, boldface, 3 print sizes, plus tiny midget size,
proportional print, shadow mode, graphics mode, user-defined characters,
subscript, superscript, etc., etc....  Mine cost $320 from Lyco 1 year ago.
I've had no problems with it, except that it suffers from the usual brain-dead
Epson tractor-feed.  Better than earlier Epsons, though; I haven't had any
trouble with paper coming out the printer and circling back into the feed-in
when I'm away, or jamming.

Oh - and, by the way, the Apple is dead.

Phil Goetz
PGOETZ@LOYVAX
If it doesn't kill you, it's good for you.

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