Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Message-ID: <46254@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 27 Mar 91 11:15:13 GMT References: <1991Mar22.040419.27268@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <20124@cbmvax.commodore.com> <13794@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: root@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Distribution: comp Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 38 In article <13794@helios.TAMU.EDU> dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes: >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). Well, I've used a good number of PC style keyboards, and I have yet to see a reasonable layout. The latest monstrosity puts the Ctrl key way at the bottom and requires a manual-contortionist for comfortable operation. Imagine swapping your left-Amiga key with your Ctrl key and continuing normal operation. For a key so often-used as Ctrl, they made it too awkward for me. Plus, they made the CapsLock huge to make up for the empty space, so you get caps instead of controls. There are a couple nice features. They mirror the Ctrl and Alt keys on the right side (where we have right-Amiga and Alt) to allow for right-hand one-handed Ctrl operation without a stretch. That's kind of nice, but I could live without it if they would move the Ctrl key back. As for keyboard feels, we all like what we're used to, don't we? I like the A500's keyboard, but I've been using it for about 4 years. I don't like my roommate's 2000 keyboard. It has the crispness I can sometimes appreciate, but it feels a bit clumsy to me. That's about the best I can describe it. It's also a pretty bad dust magnet (although mine is only slighty better about that). Besides, my A500's keyboard is external, isn't yours? :) Greg -- Greg Harp |"How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two |lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu|running over the same ground. What have we found? s609@cs.utexas.edu |The same old fears. Wish you were here." - Pink Floyd