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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: What foreign keyboards are there?
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Date: Sun, 13-Apr-86 13:40:38 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 13 13:40:38 1986
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Organization: CACI, Inc. -- La Jolla, Calif.
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Keywords: Europe, Pacific

I am looking for documentation on non-US keyboards, or experiences of
Mac owners overseas.

Mechanically, according to Apple's old documentation, there are
two keyboards: US and non-US.   The various non-US keyboards
have different keycaps (and software translations).

1. Is this distinction (US and non-US) still true on the Mac Plus?

2. Does anyone outside the US (presumably including all english-
   speaking North America) use a US keyboard?  A US keyboard has
   a landscape-oriented (horizontal) return key, while the non-US 
   have a portrait-oriented (vertical) return key.  I've heard a
   rumor that the Australian keyboard is a US keyboard, rather
   than a UK (perhaps because their currency is a $?).

3. What configurations are available?  An old pre-release document
   suggests:
	UK
	German (presumably including Austria and part of Switzerland)
	French (presumably including western Switzerland)
	Italian
	Spanish/Latin American (including portuguese?)
	French-Canadian (were any of these sold?)
   I've since heard tell that there is a Swedish/Danish/Norwegian
   keyboard as well.

I'd appreciate any information anyone can provide.
-- 
	Joel West	 	(619) 457-9681
	CACI, Inc. Federal, 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA  92037
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