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From: bruce@tcom.stc.co.uk (Bruce Munro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: observations on the (9000/7x0 series)
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.091622.25157@tcom.stc.co.uk>
Date: 26 Jun 91 09:16:22 GMT
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In article <1991Jun21.191139.11313@wlbr.imsd.contel.com> mh@roger.imsd.contel.com (Mike Hoegeman) writes:
>In article <1474@theseas.ntua.gr> nfotis@ntua.gr (Nikolaos Fotis) writes:
>
>>cons (in no particular order):
>> a. Very bad keyboard, especially the escape key and a rather plastic touch.
>>	NO DELETE key! (very bad) and very small control key.
>>	proposal: make it a customer option. I would love to have something
>>		reasonable like a Northgate keyboard.
>
>Yes. The keyboard sucks *big* time. two small keys the caps lock and
>the ctrl key are right next to each other to the left of 'a'.
>thankfully the control key is closest to the 'a' but i still hit caps
>lock by accident an awful lot. there is a delete key labeled delete
>char.  but it's off in the sticks way to the right of the return key.
>the keys themselves seem kind cheap too. also there are no nubs on the
>home keys which i think is really lame.

Sounds just like the keyboard on the 9000/300 I've got here. Same delete
problem, this one has two keys, one is <Shift><Esc> for Gods sake! And
the other is, as Mike says, off to the right hand side.

What I want to know is does the 700 keyboard still have the '/' key right
up the top of the keyboard, and to add insult to injury you have to shift
to obtain it. On a Unix workstation this is nothing short of absurd! I'd
really love to the hear the justification for this bit of design.

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