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From: barry@adelie.UUCP (Barry A. Burke)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: vt220 keyboard replacement?
Message-ID: <579@adelie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 23:36:05 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 25 23:36:05 1986
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Reply-To: barry@adelie.UUCP (Barry A. Burke)
Organization: Adelie Corporation, Newtonville MA
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>Anyone know of a plug in replacement for vt220 terminal keyboards?

HEAR-HEAR!

>This new keyboard should correct the insane placement of the 
>important keys used in editing:
>* The "Compose Key" could be removed or put on that useless top row.
>* Put the LOCK key somewhere that is not between my pinky and the control key.
>* Make the control key bigger.
>* Put the Escape Key back where it belongs, to the left of the 1 key.
>* Bring back the backspace and linefeed keys.

* Put the "<" & ">" back over the "," & "." where they belong (we're 
  Programmers, NOT secretaries!)

And while we're griping- WHY (oh WHY) do all the function key sequences
have to end with "~"?  Makes it a pain to code dispatch tables (eg. for
Emacs) [I know it's not a keyboard problem, but....]

Still waiting for an Intelligent Terminal...
	barry
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