Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!world!jon_sree From: jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: IBM Keyboard Output Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 15:06:17 GMT References: <1991Feb17.065421.27814@athena.cs.uga.edu> <28386@ucsd.Edu> <1686@borg.cs.unc.edu> Sender: jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth) Distribution: sci Organization: The World Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu's message of 19 Feb 91 02:35:45 GMT In article <1686@borg.cs.unc.edu> tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell) writes: function keys to go around... Wanna sell that type-4 keyboard real cheap? You want to talk nasty keyboards, try the one on the DECstation 3100 and related machines. If they're LK201 --- VT200-series terminal keyboards --- I love 'em ! (Shades of religious war on the subject of keyboards here ... :-) You're right that someone ought to do a box to let everyone plug their favorite keyboards into their favorite machines. Imagine a PC keyboard on your Sparc, a Macintosh keyboard on your friend's PC, and the Sparc keyboard on your Amiga. How true. In the days when I worked for a large computer company headquartered in Maynard, Mass, I was so frustrated by the alleged VT200 emulators on the PC that I started building such a gadget. But my present 386 clone comes with an almost perfect LK201 clone keyboard : full 4 keys on the top row of the function keypad, large 0, ENTER and + keys, cursor keys and 6 more above them, in the right places. _And_ , as a bonus, a true ESC key, which, frankly, was brain damaged to leave out in the original LK201. Oh, well. / Jon Sreekanth Assabet Valley Microsystems Fax and PC products 346 Lincoln St #722, Marlboro, MA 01752 508-562-0722 jon_sree@world.std.com