Kidtech My First Keyboard from 1994: It's Peanut Butter-Proof!
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Derek
I'm actually quite impressed! It looks like some real thought and hard work went into this, and it does exactly what it's supposed to do. Very nice!
I also could have used this very product circa 1999-2001 or so, when I would sometimes be baby-sitting my cousin's tiny daughters, and would entertain them with Atari 2600 games (-wanna play 'teeree! -) and. Kid Pix. On my daily driver 486DX2 running OS/2 Warp 3, and later Warp 4. One fine day, the littlest was so excited to play Kid Pix, that she didn't even wait for OS/2 to finish booting and slipped in front of me somehow (that girl defied physics to endanger herself frequently enough, so no surprise) and started smashing random keys with reckless enthusiasm. I couldn't get mad, but. it NEVER worked the same since. NEVER. I haven't powered on that machine in ten years or so, but, since I never wanted to backup and reconfigure an OS/2 machine with all my customizations (a much more onorus task than it would be for any modern Windows, macOS or Linux release with the aid of a good USB hard disk, I never fixed it. And, despite spending some time on it after the initial incident, I could never figure out what she messed up! It just always seemed like it was trying to start. something. then failing to do so, then proceeding to boot after an anomalous delay.
tl; dr: I really could have used that keyboard-lockout-during-boot feature back in the day!
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I'm actually quite impressed! It looks like some real thought and hard work went into this, and it does exactly what it's supposed to do. Very nice!
I also could have used this very product circa 1999-2001 or so, when I would sometimes be baby-sitting my cousin's tiny daughters, and would entertain them with Atari 2600 games (-wanna play 'teeree! -) and. Kid Pix. On my daily driver 486DX2 running OS/2 Warp 3, and later Warp 4. One fine day, the littlest was so excited to play Kid Pix, that she didn't even wait for OS/2 to finish booting and slipped in front of me somehow (that girl defied physics to endanger herself frequently enough, so no surprise) and started smashing random keys with reckless enthusiasm. I couldn't get mad, but. it NEVER worked the same since. NEVER. I haven't powered on that machine in ten years or so, but, since I never wanted to backup and reconfigure an OS/2 machine with all my customizations (a much more onorus task than it would be for any modern Windows, macOS or Linux release with the aid of a good USB hard disk, I never fixed it. And, despite spending some time on it after the initial incident, I could never figure out what she messed up! It just always seemed like it was trying to start. something. then failing to do so, then proceeding to boot after an anomalous delay.
tl; dr: I really could have used that keyboard-lockout-during-boot feature back in the day!
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Huleeya
From the wayback machine, the last most recent archive of the site was the 27th of december last year, and after that on the 28th of febuary this year the site went down, at least it is there still to see. And watched the video again, as i hadn't seen it since when it was posted too, and like some others have said, i'd call it a BNOP sundae with how it ended up. Not sure it'd taste that good though.
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From the wayback machine, the last most recent archive of the site was the 27th of december last year, and after that on the 28th of febuary this year the site went down, at least it is there still to see. And watched the video again, as i hadn't seen it since when it was posted too, and like some others have said, i'd call it a BNOP sundae with how it ended up. Not sure it'd taste that good though.
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The
This reminds me of an old thing I had when I was a tiny baby child that was like a big chunky piece of plastic with velcro you would strap over a normal keyboard and it essentially had these big chunky shape buttons over groups of keys that were all bound to like shapes and such in certain programs, I dont remember the actual games that well but the buttons were really really nice to press
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This reminds me of an old thing I had when I was a tiny baby child that was like a big chunky piece of plastic with velcro you would strap over a normal keyboard and it essentially had these big chunky shape buttons over groups of keys that were all bound to like shapes and such in certain programs, I dont remember the actual games that well but the buttons were really really nice to press
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Andrew
I totally searched if PeanutButterGamer had a review of this thing.
I was kinda surprised you didn't hook up to a modern computer with a PS/2 to USB adapter (or possibly the other direction on the passthrough.
I was wondering how it wouldn't work on boot up, but I think you answered. I timeout on power up.
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I totally searched if PeanutButterGamer had a review of this thing.
I was kinda surprised you didn't hook up to a modern computer with a PS/2 to USB adapter (or possibly the other direction on the passthrough.
I was wondering how it wouldn't work on boot up, but I think you answered. I timeout on power up.
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Matthew
I think that if something like this was made now they would have used the normal QWERTY layout for the keyboard just because of how much it is used in modern society. Loads of schools use computers for work from a very young age and touch typing is a very useful skill to have in the 21st Century.
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I think that if something like this was made now they would have used the normal QWERTY layout for the keyboard just because of how much it is used in modern society. Loads of schools use computers for work from a very young age and touch typing is a very useful skill to have in the 21st Century.
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Jack
My 2007 Compaq does the clicking sound on that keyboard on the motherboard speaker when your typing something while the system is booted from cd dvd or USB like if I had cloudready on USB which is a slim down version of chrome os which the chrome book runs it'll click like that keyboard
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My 2007 Compaq does the clicking sound on that keyboard on the motherboard speaker when your typing something while the system is booted from cd dvd or USB like if I had cloudready on USB which is a slim down version of chrome os which the chrome book runs it'll click like that keyboard
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techmouse1101
I just taped a piece of plastic wrap to my keyboard to keep it safe from my kid and it worked great.
I wonder if I could market cheap plastic wrap as -peanut butter-proofing, kid-proofing keyboard shielding for kids and parents-. I might need to work on the name a bit.
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I just taped a piece of plastic wrap to my keyboard to keep it safe from my kid and it worked great.
I wonder if I could market cheap plastic wrap as -peanut butter-proofing, kid-proofing keyboard shielding for kids and parents-. I might need to work on the name a bit.
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CHRISMENENDEZ
You have to hand it to the couple, they did make a working product that made good on its promises. They should make a modern version of it along with some software that beeps loudly when little Billy is entering dad's credit card number into some shady website.
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You have to hand it to the couple, they did make a working product that made good on its promises. They should make a modern version of it along with some software that beeps loudly when little Billy is entering dad's credit card number into some shady website.
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Marsharoni
My mind has decided to ruin my life with the haunting thought that plausibly, this has awakened some poor cursed souls out there to the new pinnacle of overly-specific fetishes, -Playing Duke 3D on keyboard with peanut butter, chocolate syrup and milk. -
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My mind has decided to ruin my life with the haunting thought that plausibly, this has awakened some poor cursed souls out there to the new pinnacle of overly-specific fetishes, -Playing Duke 3D on keyboard with peanut butter, chocolate syrup and milk. -
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LeroyVision
When you loaded up Duke Nukem on that thing I couldn-t help but imagine a little kid going to use the computer with the My First Keyboard only to discover that their dad had accidentally left his copy of Duke Nukem in the floppy drive.
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When you loaded up Duke Nukem on that thing I couldn-t help but imagine a little kid going to use the computer with the My First Keyboard only to discover that their dad had accidentally left his copy of Duke Nukem in the floppy drive.
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