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From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Xterm Keymaps w/ the PSK
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Date: 26 Mar 91 16:58:31 GMT
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In article <9103251755.AA29093@hpcvlx.HP.COM>, craig@HPCVLX.CV.HP.COM (Craig Durland) writes:

  > Please pardon my ignorance, but does this mean that the older keyboard
  > that was shipped with thousands of nodes is *NOT* supported with X11R4?

  Well, I think the "offical" position is we don't support it.  However, I
  may be mistaken about which keyboard it really is.

  Don't worry, it works.  If you find a problem with it, let me know.  We
  had no idea that that many of those keyboards where out there and did
  not test it.

There are four keyboards in use on Apollo nodes.

Kbd 1 is big and klunky.  It was shipped with early dishwasher nodes (dn100,
dn400, etc).  You never see these any more.

Kbd 2 is low-profile, and has black function keys F1-F8.  It was shipped
with the dn300.  These are still in use but rare.

Kbd 3 is low-profile, and has grey function keys F0-F9.  It was shipped with
the Otter series (dn3000, dn3500, etc).  This is the keyboard that
apparently doesn't work sometimes with the r4 server.  This keyboard is in
use on over 90% of all Apollo nodes today, hence the concern.  What exactly
is the story?  Under what circumstances does this keyboard work?

The new HP keyboard has two ALT keys on either side of the space bar.  This
keyboard works fine with the r4 server, but since hardly anyone uses this
keyboard yet outside of HP, it doesn't do us much good.  I hate this
keyboard because it looks like something you would find connected to an IBM
machine running TSO.