Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!problem!compus!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!mcnc!borg!oscar!tell From: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: IBM Keyboard Output Message-ID: <1784@borg.cs.unc.edu> Date: 22 Feb 91 05:21:54 GMT References: <28386@ucsd.Edu> <1686@borg.cs.unc.edu> Sender: news@cs.unc.edu Distribution: sci Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 32 In article jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth) writes: >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 ... :-) Yup! to each his own... We have the LK201's everywhere, and more on the way... Supposedly there's another DEC keyboard on the VT1000; anyone know if they're interchangeable? >... > _And_ , as a bonus, a true ESC key, which, frankly, >was brain damaged to leave out in the original LK201. Thats my bigest beef with the LK201. A close second is the silly <> key between Z and left-shift. Thank god for xmodmap - `~ becomes escape, F1 becomes `~, , and . get < and > like they're supposed to, capslock becomes control, control does nothing, help becomes capslock (I never use it, so I put it out of the way. Up near the LED seemed good), / Jon Sreekanth >jon_sree@world.std.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Tell tell@cs.unc.edu H: +1 919 968 1792 #5L Estes Park apts CS Grad Student, UNC Chapel Hill. W: +1 919 962 1845 Carrboro NC 27510 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com