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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Keyboards
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Date: 18 Dec 90 02:08:11 GMT
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Someone who knows the old and the new keyboards please answer this question:
Is it true as someone else posted that the feel of the
keyboard got cheaper? I hope not! The NeXT keyboard feel is the only I
ever liked except for the keyboard of my ancient Commodore 64-sx, a
beast of which I'm not even sure they sold it in the states (portable
version of C-64 that had a very good keyboard in contrast to the awful
keybord on the original c-64).

Just don't tell me that "because of the demand of business users" we
have now to endure that ridiculous klicking we are used from PCs.

Ronald

PS: It seems to be a tendency that if something is perfect, there are
a couple of people that have the drive to change it because they don't
want to get started on the things that really need work... or so it seems.
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