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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Northgate keyboards
Summary: Anything is better than a PS/2 keyboard
Message-ID: <53@newave.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 90 04:53:41 GMT
References: <29183@amdcad.AMD.COM> <19500056@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> <29255@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN
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In article <29255@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
> In article <19500056@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> | Which leads me to ask:  What is it that so many of you do with it
> | that you like it so much?  The "feel" is horrible.
>
> It feels great to me (I might even like it better than the IBM,
> which seems to have too much key travel and force) but keyboards are
> like editors, they tend to get religious.

Although most people will probably agree that the PS/2 keyboards are
just about the worst for routine usage.  The "escape" is in the wrong
place...so I press "~" all the time.  The control key is wrong, the
"Caps Lock" key is where control is supposed to be, the function keys
are on the top.

IBM spent millions of dollars to develope the Selectric typewriter
keyboard, which is probably the best keyboard ever made.  So why
do they keep messing with success and screwing up the PC keyboards???

BTW--although I like my Northgate keyboard, it does have a nasty
habit of repeating a key if you press it ever-so-lightly.  I only
notice this when I am in "rn", and I rest my trigger finger on "n".

-john-


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