Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!ti-csl!tilde.csc.ti.com!skbat!dittman
From: dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com (Eric Dittman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Standard vs. Extended Keyboard
Message-ID: <117.26dc3783@skbat.csc.ti.com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 02:45:38 GMT
References: <3005@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Organization: Texas Instruments Component Test Facility
Lines: 23

In article <3005@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>, bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
> I do not like the placement of the control key on the extended keyboard
> (way down on bottom) and prefer its placement on the standard keyboard
> (to left).  What does one miss by getting a standard rather than extended
> keyboard.  Are the function keys really of much use?  What programs use
> them?

Paul, I modified my extended keyboard to have control and caps lock swapped
(very easy to do), but I also had a Datadesk Switchboard on my Mac Plus.  I
tried the Datadesk Switchboard on the IIfx and liked the feel so much (plus
the control and caps lock can be swapped via a dip switch) that I now have
the Switchboard on the IIfx and the original keyboard back on the Plus.  I'm
currently working on an easy instruction list with resources for the system
file to distribute so others can swap the keys on the ADB extended if they
want without having to modify the resources themselves.

Eric Dittman
Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility
dittman@skitzo.csc.ti.com
dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com

Disclaimer:  I don't speak for Texas Instruments or the Component Test
             Facility.  I don't even speak for myself.