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From: Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: CAPS LOCK DEVICE REQUEST
Message-ID: <890822.13033556.019146@SFA.CP6>
Date: 22 Aug 89 19:03:36 GMT
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    During the WOA at Dallas, lowly user that I am, I asked several
developers and commercial ST miracle workers if it was possible to build
a caps lock indicator for the ST.  I discovered that *I must be the only one
who needs this*!  Not one single developer saw the need.  They looked at
me in awe and politely listened.  Yes, it was possible they said, but no,
I'm not interested and the need is really not there, they indicated.
    Sigh.  Try logging on a mainframe that is case sensitive or accidentally
bump the caps lock key when fat fingering.  For a touch typist who spends
more time looking at the copy rather than the screen, it can be infuriating
to see your screen output in the wrong case.  If a LED indicator could be
had, then your peripheral vision would see the caps lock indicator.
    Yes, there are corner caps/lock indicators that are software driven.
However, these may not always work for certain programs and, when using
the ST in emulation mode for either Spectre or IBM, then the user has to
tap the keys a couple of times to determine the case.
    At any rate, is anyone else interested in a hardware caps/lock
indicator?  If so, how would one be built?

Larry Rymal in East Texas <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>