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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Caps Lock Position
Message-ID: <220@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 89 16:54:43 GMT
References: <3101@spudge.UUCP> <5660056@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.
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In article <5660056@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:
>Eventually, I opened the case and switched the keys with a knife and a
>soldering iron.  When I sold it, the buyer was glad I had switched
>them.  So there are at least three of us.

I agree that the positions of the caps-lock and control keys on most 
"modern" keyboards are highly unsatisfactory (or less politely, they suck!).
The control key belongs immediately to the left of the 'A' key on any
self-respecting keyboard.  The caps-lock key can go just about anywhere
that it won't be hit by mistake.

>Since then I have bought an Amiga 2000.  I have not yet performed this
>surgery on its keyboard, but I plan to.

It probably won't work since the keys are different sizes, unlike the A1000
where they were the same size.

-Fred
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