Perhaps?
http://shop.hooleon.com/products/keyboards-stickers-emulations-apl


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 23 July 2013 17:21, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > <begin copy>
> > Effective July 29th 2013: According to e-Business strategy, IBM
> > Publications Center does'nt support ordering anymore. The Publications
> > are being made available in electronic format to be viewed or
> > downloaded free of charge.
> > </end copy>
> >
> > If you judge that you need a hardcopy version of a manual, order it
> > during the next few days.
>
> Heh... I've been trying for some weeks to order a couple of sets of
> SC33-0604-00 APL/2 Keyboard Stickers. I don't relish printing these
> onto sticky labels from a PDF, and then cutting them out by hand!  In
> any case the pubs centre no longer takes credit cards; one must have a
> customer number. Well I have one (my own - not my employer's) from the
> 1990s that I used to order the then popular OS/2 books. So I submitted
> my order using their bizarre scheme that requires that one generate a
> pseudo-random "order key" for reference, according to rules which are
> enforced quite differently from those documented. All seemed OK, and I
> was promptly emailed a note saying that my order would be reviewed and
> returned to me for final approval.
>
> Nothing for two weeks, so I went to their "check order status" page,
> entered my order number and key, and was promptly redirected to a
> non-existent URL. (Well, an entire non-existent server
> lw-sit01.linux.ehone.ibm.com).
>
> I submitted a feedback form (at least that worked), and got a short,
> sharp email (possibly from a human) telling me that my customer number
> was invalid, and to resubmit with a correct one. No help offered, no
> attempt to look up my company's or my name, no phone call.
>
> So I suspect that they knew at the time that if they could just delay
> me by a few weeks, their problems would be over.
>
> Still, there remains the issue that certain pubs are almost inherently
> hardcopy. There are stickers, slides, microfiche, etc. still in theory
> extant that just won't do as downloadables.
>
> Tony H.
>
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