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From: chouw@buster.cps.msu.edu (Wen Hwa Chou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Those Damn Keyboards
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.123910.27626@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 91 12:39:10 GMT
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In article <1991Feb7.230938.21374@csn.org!datran2> smb@csn.org!datran2 writes:
>In article <5137@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) writes:
>>
>>ISO KEYBOARDS - JUST SAY NO!!!
>>Bring back the "Classic Keyboard"!
>
>I have refrained so far from this discussion, because I still haven't 
>gotten over my ill will toward a design philosophy that would forget to
>include a PageUp PageDown, Home, and End key.  Not to mention the tilda
>being "way over there".  But I do think we ought to speak up and tell
>NeXT that they are moving _away_ from what we would like to see rather
>than towards some ideal held by a large number of people.

Whenever I am working on the Slab, I miss my gigantic stupid PC/AT keyboard
so much that I keep looking for PgUp PgDn Home End keys (Not to metion
| \ and ~.)  Hope there is some way that I can connect a cheap PC/AT keyboard
to the Slab.