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From: Ed_Meyer@mindlink.bc.ca (Ed Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Dvorak keyboard on Amiga?
Message-ID: <6249@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 13 Jun 91 03:07:11 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> martin@cbmvax.commodore.com writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <22396@cbmvax.commodore.com>
> Posted: 13 Jun 91 13:38:30 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Commodore, West Chester, PA
> Person: Martin Hunt
> 
> In article <2671@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> snowdond@r2.cs.man.ac.uk (D.N.Snowdon (MSc
> PJ)) writes:
> >
> >  Has anyone tried hooking up a Dvorak (sp?) type keyboard to an Amiga?
> >  Does anyone know where I might get hold of one of these?
> >               thanks
> >                       Dave (snowdond@cs.man.ac.uk)
> 
> 
> Why not use the one included with your Amiga?  Just "setmap usa2" and
> rearrange the keycaps.
> 
> Martin Hunt         Commodore-Amiga martin@cbmvax.commodore.com
> 
> "Windows 3.0 is hot because it's really fun.  It has brought some
> excitement back into the PC industry" - Microsoft
> I wonder who took the excitement out in the first place?

Martin, aren't the keys on the keyboard "sculptured"?  Wouldn't this mean that
just re-arranging the key-caps -- although giving the correct key map -- would
not provide a correct keyboard feel?

    Ed Meyer