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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Un-Mac-like keyboard
Keywords: ISO ABD keyboard SANS the numeric pad badly needed
Message-ID: <1990May8.165009.14814@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 8 May 90 16:50:09 GMT
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In article <1990May8.050821.20052@kth.se> ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes:
>
>  of plain ignorance.  But the other part of Apple's decision not to stick
>  to one "standard" keyboard in its line is undoubtedly what I would term 
>  the "American General Dislike And Mistrust Of International, esp. 
> `European', Organizations".  After all -- these decisions were taken
>  by men and women of flesh and blood, with clear, culturally defined,
>  (here: American-tainted) preferences and prejudices, not by some omnipotent,
>  infallible "Apple Product Planners" that can do no wrong.

Wow, and here I thought that the Apple Standard was just the IIGS keyboard
in a different case, and that the IIGS keyboard had the CTRL key where it
was because that's the way the Apple // series has always had it (before
ISO even HAD a standard).  I'm sure glad that you explained to me
that it was good old American ethnocentricism at fault.  I'll never
make the mistake of thinking Americans have good reason to ignore
ISO again.
(Disclaimer:  I use the Battleship Saratoga, and I like it better.)
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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