unplugging the keyboard (was:Re: $_)

[Tanya Katz]

Hello again, 

First: thanks to those who suggested ESC ? in the ksh.  I will remember to
use this instead of $_.  

In  <11510 at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Christopher J. Calabrese writes:
>If I remember my net.history, Tanya has a 3b1 which does, indeed, barf
>when you unplug the keyboard.  No ammount of fiddling will help, since
>the device driver for the keyboard will simply freeze if it loses its
>precious signals from the keyboard.

Yeah, that was a 3b1...

>Of course, there are other machines which allow you to unplug the keyboard
>more readily.  On my machine at work (a Sun 3/60), unplugging the keyboard
>results in random keyboard state (what keys are considered down, including
>CAPS, etc) upon replugging, but hitting the L1 key will reset all states
>to the default (no CAPS, all keys up).

We have the Towers here at ADDS, and I just unplugged the keyboard while
editing this.  Replug it in, and continue typing.  

Just for the record, I (we) have BOTH the 7300/20mg and 3b1/40mg.  
I was able to upgrade to the 40mg when a nearby company discontinued
their Unix development and sold their used machines (cheap!).
I could blame this on my kids, but I'm the computer junkie...
Anyway, one machine will be leaving for college in the fall.

I have both 3.5 and 3.51 software. The 7300 is running with the 
3.5.1.2 custom kernel.  Anyone know what version/permutation that is?

BTW, the kid will be taking my printer, too, so I was thinking of getting
a Panasonic KX-P1124, it is on sale for $325.  Some net-users have said
they are good printers and that the epson driver works fine with it.

Anyone have any recommendations?   < $500 :-)

Thanks again to all who helped!

	Tanya