From: David Talkington (dtalk_at_soltec.net)
Date: Sat Jan 16 1999 - 02:14:35 EST
By "start" button, I presume you mean the Windows key. As the Windows hacks
here will tell you, you can get the same effect by pressing CTRL+ESC
together.
Some keyboards have a menu access key as well, which pops up the "file" menu
for the active window. This is accomplished on standard keyboards with
ALT+F.
Personally, I feel that the lack of those "extra" keys is a plus. They're
annoyingly easy to hit by accident, and if you ever switch to an operating
system other than Windows, you'll dislike the constant reminder of the life
you left behind.
Peace -d
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Mak [mailto:dvmak_at_ibm.net]
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 1999 12:07 AM
> To: Warren Tan Wing Wah; thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: [770ED] It won't boot!!!
>
>
> Part of that good service is why you paid the high price.(G)
> You had said that the system failed after flasshing the BIOS. A while back
> there
> were problems with wrong BIOS's and software intended for other systems
> being mixed up. The system not booting past the mem count sounds like a
> symtom of a bad flash.
> In that's the case IBM is getting sloppy in managing the FTP's
> and downloads
> which could cost them dearly.....
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren Tan Wing Wah <warren_at_warrentan.com>
> To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Date: Saturday, January 16, 1999 12:17 AM
> Subject: RE: [770ED] It won't boot!!!
>
>
> >Thanks to all who replied! I sent it back to IBM and they repaired it is
> >less than 18 hours! The motherboard and processor were replaced.
> >
> >While I must admit that the service was good, I still can't phantom how a
> >machine as ridiculously expensive as this can just fail after a few days.
> I
> >mean, even my cheap Acers didn't do this to me. Or am I just the unlucky
> >one with the one-machine-in-a-million failure rate?
> >
> >Two other issues I wish to discuss with the list:
> >
> >1. I'm no fan of Windows, but I've grown to use the "start" button on
> >keyboards quite a lot. Imagine my surprise to see the Thinkpad
> without the
> >start button on the keyboard! I'm using Windows 98 now, any ideas how I
> can
> >reprogram the left "ctrl" key to become the "start" key?
> >
> >2. The modem is horrible. It's not my phone line, because both
> my desktop
> >and my Xircom 56k modem using the same phone line can achieve 46000bps
> >rates. My el expensivo Thinkpad's modem, shame on it, has only
> been up to
> >32000 max. Any suggestions on improving it? The v.90 upgrade
> didn't help.
> >Or are we all befalled with this same fate?
> >
> >Thanks, happy computing!
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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