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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: Keyboards
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Date: 18 Dec 90 04:23:25 GMT
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If you dislike the new keyboard as much as I do, then perhaps you
should let your local NeXT salesdroid an "Campus representative" know
how you feel.

I feel that I've been the victim of a bait-and-switch; all of the
NeXTstation demo units have had the old keyboard, as well as the
pictures visable in the glossies for the NeXTstation.  I don't
understand why computer companies feel free to diddle the keyboard
design out from under their customers.

How would you feel if they decided that a long, skinny monitor was
"better" and an "improvement", and "compatible with
Internationalization" than the normal size monitors?

The NeXT is a pretty good UNIX platform and one of the best TeX
platforms that I've ever used.  That why I bought one of my own.  How
someone could take the '|' for pipes and '\' for escapes and banish
them to the numeric keypad is beyond imagination.  They certainly
didn't ask anyone that programmed on the beast or even used a UNIX
shell.

I'm just annoyed now.  Just wait until I actually take delivery of the
silly thing!  "Sometime this week." I've been told...

louie