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From: dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore!
Summary: I *like* IBM keyboards
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Date: 27 Mar 91 00:46:17 GMT
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In article <20124@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>Ugh!  Say it ain't so!  Someone actually likes those IBM keyboards?!?  The
>PC-AT keyboard layout was designed by the devil itself.  A giant CAPS-LOCK key,
>and the CTRL key off in never-never land.  The only proper keyboard is
>something reasonably DEC VT100-ish.

Gotta disagree with you on this one, Dave.  I don't care for the original
IBM PC keyboard (and the AT keyboard), but the current 101-key model
has a superb feel.  MUCH better than the 500's.  (The 2000 has a much
better keyboard than the 500.)  The only layout qualms I have with the
IBM keyboard is the ctrl key next to the space bar and the function keys
along the top (along the side is more convenient -- you can alt- and ctrl-
them with one hand).  

I have yet to see a DEC keyboard that isn't mushy or too stiff.

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