[Herefordshire] Buried Treasure!

[John Hedges]

Hi Roger

> WANTED:
> I am looking for someone who can tell / show me how to obtain the
> BACKSLASH on an IBM 560x Thinkpad laptop. I bought an old banger and now
> cannot program the thing !!!
> note. I believe the keyboard is an American one?  I have written to IBM
> but not had a reply.

I've a 560x which came with sticky labels on some of the keys for cheap
locale conversion. The backslash and vertical bar key is to the right of
the left shift key. Unfortunately it doesn't boot anymore so I can't
confirm whether they work but Linux was installed and I don't remember
them not working. If those keys are no good have a look at 'man 5
locale' to see about changing your keyboard mapping.

John

> 
> Roger
> 
> EdwardFW at aol.com wrote:
> >At Thursday???s meeting Matt raised his idea that members should put up 
> >lists of kit they have that they are willing to sell swap or give away.
> >I said it would be better for people to ask for things they wanted. 
> >Matt???s suggestion has a lot of merit but many of us will have a little 
> >or a lot of stuff that would take a long time to describe, after which 
> >not much of it might ever be wanted.
> >On second thoughts (in an effort to redeem myself with Matt - and BTW I 
> >do a lot of recycling, I???ve done my share of cycling, I have so far 
> >managed to resist a mid-life move back into motorbikes, and no-one has 
> >ever accused me of dressing extravagantly!) could I suggest a 
> >compromise, that we keep it informal and casual, but do a little more 
> >mentioning of things we are after and cannot or will not buy new, and 
> >things we are willing to swap sell or give away
> >This happens already to an extent and possibly if we do a little more of 
> >it there may be a slight self-reinforcing improvement in that we will 
> >get a vague idea of what is likely to be of interest and what is likely 
> >to be available.
> >I usually keep computers until they are prehistoric and I keep the bits 
> >that go with them in case they are needed as spares thus when something 
> >becomes available it is usually rather ancient so I don???t usually have 
> >much to offer. But I have:
> >One Old ISA sound card (gigantic size) Free (reluctantly!)
> >One SB AWE 64 sound card Free
> >One Belkin USB 2 "F5U220" PCI card (4 ext 1 int) Packet of crisps at a 
> >pub meet
> >
> >And is there anyone among us who sells kit on eBay? I am too lazy / busy 
> >but if Matt wants to promote reusing rather than recycling and also make 
> >a farthing I would very occasionally have a few items
> >
> >Edward
> >
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