OT: Keyboard spacebar is unlabeled

[Bill Horne]

Gordon Marx wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:39:01 -0500, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote:
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>>Try a model 19 Teletype, buster! The kind where the keytops could be
>>twisted off and moved to differenct keys any time the crew wanted!
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>Wait, you had keys? I had to lick the wires to make the connections.
>Then I had to give presentations with a scorched tongue.
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Easy. Freshman-level. Nay, Bush League.

_I_ had to send PERFECT Baudot code to a Model 19, using a STRAIGHT 
telegraph key, at 60 words per minute for five minutes, with no errors, 
in order to graduate the course. Top _that_!!

Bill "Unshift On Space" Horne