OT: Keyboard spacebar is unlabeled

[Brendan]

On Monday 10 January 2005 23:08, Bill Horne wrote:
> Gordon Marx wrote:
> >On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:39:01 -0500, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote:
> >>Try a model 19 Teletype, buster! The kind where the keytops could be
> >>twisted off and moved to differenct keys any time the crew wanted!
> >
> >Wait, you had keys? I had to lick the wires to make the connections.
> >Then I had to give presentations with a scorched tongue.
>
> Easy. Freshman-level. Nay, Bush League.
>
> _I_ had to send PERFECT Baudot code to a Model 19, using a STRAIGHT
> telegraph key, at 60 words per minute for five minutes, with no errors,
> in order to graduate the course. Top _that_!!

How's that skill working out for you these days?