Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!grebyn!ckp From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) Subject: Re: Keyboards (was Re: Wake Up Commodore!) Message-ID: <1991Mar29.140825.7960@grebyn.com> Organization: Grebyn Timesharing References: <20124@cbmvax.commodore.com> Distribution: comp Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1991 14:08:25 GMT In article vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes: >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? First, Handshake does quite a good job of making the Amiga keypad the functional duplicate of the VT100/220 keypad. I can EDT using it without having to stop and look for the function keys. Ahhh... When the VT220 was first released I considered it to be flawed in that it was missing ESC and BS keys, and the < and > were in a horrible place. Never mind that ESC, BS, and LF appear on the funciton key row; those only work in VT100 mode. And finally, you should check out the VT420 keyboard. It's about as close to the perfect keyboard as I can think of. -- First comes the logo: C H E C K P O I N T T E C H N O L O G I E S / / ckp@grebyn.com \\ / / Then, the disclaimer: All expressed opinions are, indeed, opinions. \ / o Now for the witty part: I'm pink, therefore, I'm spam! \/