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From: mishkin@EDDIE.MIT.EDU@apollo.UUCP
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Subject: Re: CAPS LOCK
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Date: Sat, 31-Jan-87 14:02:47 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 31 14:02:47 1987
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    I think that Apollo keyboards in general are poorly engineered.  I
    hadn't run into a keyboard with contact bounce for YEARS--until I
    recently started using a low profile DN300 keyboard.  I hadn't SEEN
    a keyboard using the archaic REPEAT key--until I started using an
    Apollo.  The 3000 doesn't seem to have corrected the latter problem.
    I haven't used the 3000 enough to notice whether the contact bounce
    has been fixed.

I know I'm biased, and the caps lock thing is surely a pain, but your
message seems way overdrawn.  I've used a LOT of keyboards in my life
-- including the current ones of our competitors -- and if anything,
I'd say the later DN300 keyboards (the ones that have a bit of click-feel
to them) and the DN3000 keyboards are at least as good, if not better
than all those others.  I've NEVER had a bounce problem with one of these
keyboards.  Perhaps yours is simply defective.

If you want to see a really bad keyboard, look at the ones that came
with the DN400s.

                -- Nat Mishkin
                   Apollo Computer Inc.
                   apollo!mishkin
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