any sufficiently advanced technology might as well be magic.
while it IS funny, hee hee, it's perfectly reasonable that a user who
sees he's changing the keyboard's behavior might get the impression it's
done by changing properties of the keyboard.
i bet if you didn't via experience know better, swapping a properly
behaving keyboard into place would seem a perfectly reasonable thing to
try. And Certainly a lot easier than calling the help desk!
the other Tracy
<same thread, my sequence error>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Senn, Bruce
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: On Topic Friday Humor
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> And remember the old trick to train users to hit ENTER
> instead of RETURN
> on HP Terminals. It was to fasten a thumb tack, business side up, on
> the RETURN key.
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> :0)
>
> Bruce.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Shahan, Ray
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:42 PM
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> Subject: Re: On Topic Friday Humor
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> Sounds like something from a Dilbert cartoon!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Johnson, Tracy
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:06 PM
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] On Topic Friday Humor
>
> Anyone here who has used Reflection or Minisoft/92 probably "knows"
> about mapping their "Enter" key vis-a-vis a "Carriage Return" or some
> other mapped key in their configuration.
>
> One of our techs here just told me that a user who couldn't figure how
> do map the "Enter" key took a keyboard from a PC that was configured
> they way they wanted and attempted to swap it out with a keyboard on
> another PC to change the mapping behavior.
>
> Tracy Johnson
> Measurement Specialties, Inc.
>
> BT
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