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From: monty@delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Monty Mullig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: new Sun type-4 keyboards
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 17 May 89 17:00:15 GMT
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Original-Date: Wed, 10 May 89 12:50:49 CDT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 290, message 13 of 13

stephen gildea writes:
	The keyboard that Sun started shipping with the 386i and now ships with
all machines, the type-4 keyboard, is a step backwards for an engineering
workstation.

i agree. the placement of the delete key (and the uselessly large and
nearby backspace key) are very irritating.  the meta key is miniscule.
also, the lights on ours (for cap lock, num lock, etc) don't work, which
makes the keyboard misleading.  the only good thing about the new
keyboards is that they lable the "L" function keys with their sunview
function (in addition to the "L" number). 

  monty mullig
  univ of chicago
  biological sciences division