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From: wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: More info on the new Macs
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Date: 18 Oct 90 15:21:57 GMT
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dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:

>Yech, this sounds really nasty.  The membrane keyboards I have seen in
>the past were flat surfaces, totally unsuitable for touch typists.  Is
>that the case here, or does it have reals keys, with the membrane
>underneath, done well enough so you can actually type on the thing?

>What is meant by "small keyboard"?  If it just means I don't have a
>lot of function keys, I can live with that.  If it means I'm going to
>have to scrunch my fingers together, they can take it and...well,
>never mind.

I played with the keyboards last Friday and they were okay. They
look very similar to the SE keyboard, but they don't make as much
noise. The touch is okay. An engineer told me that the manufacturing
costs for the new boards was one half the cost of making the old
ones. Of course that could be better automation or a larger economies
of scale.

>-- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com)
>-- Unisys Corp. / Paoli Research Center / PO Box 517 / Paoli PA  19301
>-- Any resemblance between my opinions and those of my employer is improbable.
>< You can put a mouse on an IBM.  And you can put a radio on a motorcycle. >


-Peter wayner
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