Caltrops - Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing





	[quote name="Jerry Whorebach"][quote]My first computer was a C64, bought in April 1987. By then the C64 had a different case design than the photo shown with this article. Here's what mine looked like: [url="http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/cip/category/computer/c64c"]www.richardlagendijk.nl/cip/category/computer/c64c[/url] It came with the GEOS operating system, that mimicked the Apple OS at that time. I used it for my business, which was publishing small booklets on military history topics. In 1990 I moved up to an IBM PC compatible (10 mHz in Turbo mode, 5.25" floppy drive and no hard drive; added a 40 MB hard drive the following year for $250) ... ah, the "fun" of tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys to get a program to load into memory. My first Windows PC didn't come until late 1993 (33 mHz, 200 MB hard drive); within three years I was building my own. And I HATE black keyboards! Or any black computer hardware. Or any black electronics hardware. Why? Because they show the dust - which is light colored. I have an Epson inkjet printer that is mostly black; the top is shiny black plastic and attracts dust like a magnet. I have to wipe it off with a damp cloth every day, nothing else works. I've tried anti-static wipes and sprays and still have to clean it every day. I let it go more than a day and it looks disgusting (I have a touch of OCD, if you haven't guessed; I also have asthma so the dust is an issue for me and even with a large, expensive HEPA air cleaner the dust still builds up pretty fast). I always try to buy silver/gray colored hardware but it's getting harder andharder. My LCD monitor, keyboard and computer case are silver/gray. My flatbed scanner has a partially silver case except the top is dark gray. The laser printer is a mix of light and dark gray (this one makes some sense as the dark gray areas are those that would most likely get dirty from toner and such that would show up on the light colors). The dust still builds up just as fast on the light colored hardware, but it doesn't show up like it does on dark colored hardware, so I don't have to clean it every single day.[/quote][/quote]