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From: faiman@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Hebrew Keyboard - The Real Thing or - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 08:10:00 EDT
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uiuccsb!faiman    Feb 27 16:10:00 1984

When I was visiting the institute at S'dei Boker last summer I noticed
some North Star Advantages, whose keytops had been equipped with Hebrew
letters on their front faces, and which were being used for text process-
ing in both English and Hebrew at the same time, apparently using some
version of Wordstar.  The only disadvantage (pun not intended) was that,
in this bilingual mode, English was upper case only - presumably, too
small a character ROM.  I was told that a company in the Tel-Aviv area
made the modifications.  North Star, in San Leandro, might be able to
provide more information, or I can put you in touch with someone at the
institute.

However, the makers of quite a few personal computers, including NEC, for
example, claim that users can create their own character sets.  I haven't
checked into this.

Mike Faiman (pur-ee!uiucdcs!faiman)