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Contrary to popular belief, typing without a keyboard can be done -- it just takes a shitload of patience from the user.

Here's the story... About a month ago I sent a keyboard and a mouse down to my parents house so they could use them to see if either of their computers would still work.  Yesterday I set up my dad's computer to make sure it would work.  I got the tower and monitor plugged in right away and I turned it on just out of curiosity -- mind you there is no mouse or keyboard hooked up yet.  It worked.  Now I need to make sure everything on it still works.

I went looking through the house to find the mouse and keyboard that I gave them, and eventually I found them.  The mouse hooked up just fine, but the adapter for the keyboard wasn't the right one for the computer -- it was from a really old computer and had the five-pin adapters instead of a PS/2 adapter.  I'm thinking "Great... this is gonna suck, but I can use the mouse to do just about anything in Windows 98", so I continue with my experiments.

After about 20 minutes of messing around, I realize that I need to look in the registry for something.  So I use the "Run" option from the start menu.  There were a ton of icons on the desktop with just about every letter of the alphabet, so I copied one letter at a time to type "regeDit".  It took a while, but I finally got there.  I realized afterwards that it would have been a hell of a lot faster through Windows Explorer.

So... now that it's over, I thought I would have to share this unique experience.  And I don't ever want to go through that again.

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