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From: dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGAstation...
Summary: 500 and 2000/3000 keyboards sure don't feel the same!
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Date: 19 Feb 91 16:36:12 GMT
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In article <12349@helios.TAMU.EDU> n368bq@tamuts.tamu.edu (Raoul Rodriguez) writes:
>Umm, you may not know it, but the keyboards in the 500 and the 2000 are
>EXACTLY the same (the 2000 keyboards even have the holes for the power and
>drive lights), and I am willing to bet a sizable amount of cash that the 3000
>keyboards are exactly the same as well, the only differance is that the
>2000 (and 3000) keyboards have a longer wire and a $.50 plastic case, 
>and that is the ONLY differance.

The 500 and 2000 may have the same *layout* but they keyboards sure
don't feel the same.  My 500's keyboard is sort of mushy feeling while
the 2000 and 3000 have a nice tactile 'click' (not really a click, but
it's there).

Maybe Commodore is using different suppliers for the 2000 versus the 500
keyboards?  Maybe they're giving both suppliers the same specs, which
might explain the drive and power lights.  Purely speculation, but
those keyboards are *not* the same.

--Daryl Biberdorf,  dlb5404@{rigel,tamuts}.tamu.edu
  Texas A&M University