Re: Funny (in a A2-nerdy way) ebay auction

[Roger Johnstone <news2006@roger.geek.nz>]

In <94WdneQaxopF2HTeRVn-pQ@comcast.com> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:
>>>Either way, nothing is 'terribly funny'.
>> 
>> 
>> Aw, come on! ;-)
>> 
>> A "keyboard end card" *is* funny. It's the only reason for its
>> existence!
> 
> I guess I found the term completely ambiguous.  Did he mean an
> encoder card, a card in the AUX slot (at the "keyboard end"), the
> keyboard circuit board itself, or what?

It's Apple's 64KB auxilliary memory card. The last version was so small 
it was the exact same length as the slot, so there was nothing to stop 
it being put in the wrong way around except for a label at one end of 
the card: "Keyboard End". I had to read the auction description twice 
before I spotted it, but I laughed out loud when I did. For sale: 
Keyboard End Card.


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