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From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: observations on the (9000/7x0 series)
Message-ID: <28510059@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 12:25:35 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.191139.11313@wlbr.imsd.contel.com>
Organization: HP-Sales Office-The Netherlands
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Bruce Munro writes :

> 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.

  Mike Hoegeman referred to the "Delete char" key. You are apparently
referring to the "DEL" key (<Shift><ESC>). Even your keyboard has both
:-)

> 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.

  The justification is probably that you ordered a local UK keyboard. On
the American USASCII keyboard the "/" is unshifted and above the "Extend
char" key (i.e. at a similar location as on a PC keyboard).

Frank "Just the facts, ma'm." Slootweg, HP, Dutch CRC.