Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!frith.egr.msu.edu!griffin From: griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: IBM keyboards? Oh my god... (Re: Wake Up Commodore!) Message-ID: <1991Mar24.210321.29125@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 24 Mar 91 21:03:21 GMT References: <1991Mar22.040419.27268@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar23.043826.15065@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 27 mykes@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >... I also like the textile feel of the keyboards. I hated the cloth-like feel of the AMiga keyboard, that's why I bought an Ultra. >Recently, I bought an OmniKey Ultra keyboard, [stuff deleted] >when Control-Amiga-Amiga just doesn't work. The keyboard also has a reset >button on it, but it also doesn't work when C-A-A fails. Sometimes C-A-A will not work -- period! If you have to reset your computer without hitting the big red switch (to save an RRD) try unplugging and plugging your keyboard back in. >... But >they don't give you keys marked AMIGA, and the ALT keys are not the ones >marked as ALT keys. I had to write on the key caps with a marker what >the keys really are. No, you have to ask for them. They have both Amiga keys, plus the resized other keys to fit their new positions (HELP, ALT, DELETE, etc.) -- Dan Griffin griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu