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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: keyboard, mouse, hockey puck
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.041422.1142@spcvxb.spc.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 04:14:22 GMT
References: <448@tivoli.UUCP>
Organization: St. Peter's College, US
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In article <448@tivoli.UUCP>, lark@greylock.tivoli.com (Lar Kaufman) writes:
> A final option: We made inquiries to DEC for keyboard alternatives, and 
> was told that there were none, unless we wanted them to build us a 
> custom keyboard.  Apparently they have done so for some large customers,
> but we are only talking about 3-5 machines here.  Does someone out there 
> have a nice custom keyboard that they can sell us at a reasonable price?

  Several Symposia ago, DEC showed 3 or 4 different prototype keyboards and
had a survey to see what people liked. The result of that is the keyboard
on the VT420. That keyboard seems to be interchangable with the ones on the
VT2xx/3xx as well as the VAXstations, since it lasted about a day attached
to the VT420 8-)

  Personally, I hated the LK201 (generated _lots_ of typos). I finally trained
myself to it and now prefer it over the new VT420-style one. Sigh.

> Ditto, mouse?
> P.S.  Makes you wonder what kind of ergonomic studies DEC does, doesn't it?

  The DEC hockey puck mouse actually won a design award. I don't think it was
for *ergonomic* design, though. There is an earlier traditional-type mouse
that is no longer marketed - maybe you could get one through a used-equipment
reseller?

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, US
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	(201) 915-9381