This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Keyboard case hack
Article: 8446 of alt.hackers From: jferg@saucer.cc.umr.edu (Whizard) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Keyboard case hack Date: 15 Aug 1995 23:08:53 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Lines: 44 Approved: Hell, yeah... Message-ID: 40r9e5$gbc@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: saucer.cc.umr.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
On 15 Aug 1995 00:44:25 GMT, someone who thinks they are Jeff Mercer (riffer@freenet2.freenet.ufl.edu) wrote: > No comments on any of the current threads... Just a nice little "hardware" > hack posting. > stone-like case for my keyboard. While it's still pretty light colored (the > paint was of the "tannish" color, *sigh*), it has lovely speckles of black, > white, and grey in it as well. Hey, I like that idea.. I may have to try that one, get that nasty microsoft logo off of my keyboard... :-> > For my next case hack, I'm going to take the computer case and use something > entirely different on it (since it's painted metal rather than plastic). I > was thinking about stripping off the paint and applying an antiquing kit of > some sort to it, say antique copper... or maybe a marbling effect. I used acrylic craft paint on mine, and it seems to hold pretty well.. Got lotsa neat little patterns on it, and a couple of bumper stickers in random places, and the Pink Floyd Dark Side Of the Moon album cover on one side... :-> Result of a seriously bored weekend... > ObButBeforeIDoThatHack: Figure out a way I can keep my computer covered and > usable during the project... Hmmm... DamnNowINeedAnObHack: Hmm... Needed to scan a bunch of crap in at work, but the scanner wasn't hooked up, and both of the macs with SCSI cables were being used... Hmm.. There's a PowerBook sitting over there not being used with a scsi cable attached.. But no Photoshop on the powerbook... Ok, plug the powerbook into the localtalk and use somebody else's photoshop... Slower than #$@#, but it runs... Make the scans from the powerbook, then plug the powerbook into our ethernet, throw it all on the server, and copy it into place, then tune the images in XV... JF -- Justin Ferguson - Comp. Sci. | "....Turn the radio loud, I'm too alone to jferg@umr.edu | be proud, and you don't know how it feels, jferg@sky.net | no you don't know how it feels to be me.." http://www.cs.umr.edu/~jferg | - Tom Petty, "You Don't Know How It Feels" ---------------------------------------------- The longer I live, the stranger life gets... -------------------
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