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From: tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple keyboard complaint; "Open Keyboard Foundation"
Keywords: keyboard
Message-ID: <30693@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 May 89 03:07:48 GMT
References: <815@m3.mfci.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <815@m3.mfci.UUCP> ryland@multiflow.com (Chris Ryland) writes:
>I have a serious complaint about the Apple ADB keyboards: they're
>junk.  Any keyboard that doesn't have N-key rollover is junk.

FYI, The Extended Keyboard DOES have N-key rollover.  Open up KeyCaps and
see it yourself.

>Ok, enough whining.  What should we do about it?
>
>Why not form an "Open Keyboard Foundation" that would pool
>people's resources, and commission a Microswitch ADB keyboard?
>Microswitch still makes the best keyboards in the world (Apollo
>still uses them, for example, though Sun gave in long ago to
>the Taiwanese urge), and having a high-quality ADB keyboard would
>be a real boon to the Mac market.

From experience, I can tell you that keyboards are a religious issue;
one person's ideal keyboard is another's monstrosity.  Secretaries like
Selectrics, there's a whole class of people who swear by VT100, and
believe it or not, some even praise the IBM AT and Apple Extended keyboards.
I doubt you can find 2, let alone 100 people to agree on a keyboard,
but all the power to you.

						_emt