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From: asm@utcsri.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Replacement Keys for 1040STf
Message-ID: <5183@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 20:48:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsri.5183
Posted: Mon Aug  3 20:48:44 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Aug-87 00:45:45 EDT
References: <235:maden@rzsin.sin.ch>
Reply-To: asm@utcsri.UUCP (Anees Munshi)
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Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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In article <235:maden@rzsin.sin.ch> maden@rzsin.sin.ch (David Maden) writes:
>[...]
>One of the disadvantages of living in Switzerland is that certain manufacturers
>such as Atari tend to sell keyboards here with German layout, i.e. Z and Y
>interchanged and special characters all over the place and certainly not in the
>same place as on my VT220 at work. Since I don't like adapting to a new
>keyboard every few hours, I use Simon Poole's keyboard editor on the Atari to
>put the keys where I like them. Full marks to Atari for designing the beast so
>that this is possible. The rub is that Simon's editor can't change the
>inscriptions on the keys so, at present, I have sticky tape all over the
>keyboard with the appropriate symbols hand written on them. The problems with
>that are obvious - the symbols wear out and it doesn't look particularly
>professional. 


	On my ST at home, I can remove the key-tops, so it should be easy to
remove and exchange the keytops of the 'Y' and 'Z' keys.

		anees

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