Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!fwi.uva.nl!gene!groenewo From: groenewo@fwi.uva.nl (Ferry van het Groenewoud) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Message-ID: <1991Mar27.140106.10043@fwi.uva.nl> Date: 27 Mar 91 14:01:06 GMT References: <1991Mar22.040419.27268@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <20124@cbmvax.commodore.com> <8Y5-JT@irie.ais.org> Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl Distribution: comp Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam Lines: 46 Nntp-Posting-Host: gene.fwi.uva.nl jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg) writes: >In article <20124@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >>In article jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg) writes: >>>In article <1991Mar22.040419.27268@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >>>>1) Attached keyboard is ugly >> >>>Yep, actually, I wish that C= would use audible IBM-type keyboards. (The only >>>thing IBM does right IS their keyboards...) >> >>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. (...) I couldn't agree more to this. >No! No! No! I *like* the Amiga keyboard layout, with the exceptions: IMHO, nothing is wrong with the layout. It's perfect for me. >I meant, the actual microswitch-like connecters that IBM uses >in their new keyboards, which makes the 'click' sound. IMNSHO, I think the click that the IBM keyboards make is highly irritating, and useless. I think the amigakeyboard is one of the best, if not the best I laid my fingers on. >>-- >>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" >> {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy >> "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M. >-- > // Joseph Hillenburg/Blackwinter, Secretary, Bloomington Amiga Users Group > \X/ jph@valnet.UUCP jph@irie.ais.org jph@gnu.ai.mit.edu > "Project: Desert Storm is also known as ``The Mother of All Ass-Kickings.''" -- Mac. The noise of a wrong calibration. PS/2. You can't see the new thing. IBM. The toys of a dead generation. Sun. You can't feel the beating. NeXT. The choice cause of bad information. Atari. You'll need some healing. Amiga. For boys with real imagination. __ Amiga. You can reach the ceiling. __/ / Ferry van het Groenewoud \__/ groenewo@fwi.uva.nl