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From: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: New keyboard references
Message-ID: <261@pttesac.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 12:33:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: pttesac.261
Posted: Mon Aug 18 12:33:47 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Aug-86 04:43:20 EDT
References: <771@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> <148600121@uiucuxc> <2957@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
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In article <2957@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> gary@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad) writes:
>In article <148600121@uiucuxc>, hamilton@uiucuxc.UUCP writes about
>>>this new amiga keyboard being the only one that he has ever used with
>>>the pimples on the D and K keys.
...
>> awful lot like the standard "but we never did it that way before"
>> applied to all innovations.
>Jeez, there are standards, though.  How would you like it if someone
>decided to switch the 'q' and 'z' keys because he didn't like their
>positions...  Or to put the number keys below the alpha keys instead
>of at the top of the keyboard...

How about a standard keyboard interface so that I can have my own
keyboard made however I like it and can plug it into any computer?
I get sick of having a different key arrangement everywhere I go.

Marnix