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

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <20060210213009257+1300@News.Individual.NET>,
Roger Johnstone  <news2006@roger.geek.nz> wrote:
>In <94WdneQaxopF2HTeRVn-pQ@comcast.com> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> 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.

Having never seen one of those before, no wonder the alleged humor didn't
make any sense to me either.  I have a few extended 80-column cards (both
Apple and clones) at home, and they're all of the larger 10-chip (?)
variety.

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