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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Non-Apple ADB Keyboards
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Date: 27 Mar 89 17:34:29 GMT
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>In article <20251@prls.UUCP> lim@prls.UUCP (Fredric Lim) writes:
><Am interested in finding out people's experiences with 
><non-apple keyboards.  Could you comment on the feel and placement
><of the keys and if you have had any problems with the keyboard.

I ran my Mac Plus with a Datadesk 101 keyboard for years, and I *loved* it
-- the Mac Plus keyboard is the pits, and the Datadesk was better than any
other keyboard I'd had a chance to use until then (including my Sun
Workstation keyboards, which should come as no surprise to anyone).  I agree
with Shirley, though -- the 101 macro software is inadequate.  Use Quickeys.

When I got my Mac SE/30, I played around with both the Apple Extended
keyboard and the 101 on my Mac Plus.  I went with the Apple Extended -- it
was a *very* close race -- and I wish that Apple would take a few lessons
from the 101, mainly putting little bars on the F and J keys, instead of the
dots ont he D and K keys (I believe that's where they are).  

Or maybe I just learned typing in a non-standard manner...

                           "There *are* standards.  If you can't see one, you
                            *make* one and stick to it come Hell or high water
                            -- until you see a BETTER one."
                                           -- John Gaunt
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