Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!nic!vinsci From: vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Keyboards (was Re: Wake Up Commodore!) Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 91 20:22:40 GMT References: <1991Mar20.223535.248@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar22.040419.27268@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <20124@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) Distribution: comp Organization: Soft Service, Inc. Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com's message of 26 Mar 91 15:03:44 GMT 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. The only proper keyboard is >something reasonably DEC VT100-ish. You mean VT220-ish, of course, the only sane industry standard keyboard. On the Amiga, I really miss those extra four editing keys above the cursor keys! Hmmm, VT220 keyboards are backwards compatible with the Amiga keyboard, it seems... When can I order mine, Commodore? -- Leonard