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From: gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast)
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Subject: Re: Northgate keyboards
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Date: 3 Mar 90 00:46:04 GMT
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>The Northgate keyboard doesn't have any of those key placement mistakes that
>have been on every IBM keyboard:

So it has the control key next to the "A" key?  I have not seen this
particular keyboard.

If I wanted to buy a selectric typewriter, I would buy one, but I want to
use a computer and I need to hit the control key all the time and I cannot
remember the last time I used the caps lock key.  I don't use FORTRAN?
(Didn't use the caps lock there either).

Why can't someone make a key board with the control key in the correct
place?  Seems pretty simple to me.  If there is such a beast, please let me
know.  Actually, it seems that a setup program should allow you to remap
many of the keys -- perhaps even sending more than one character for certain
keys.  The function keys do it, why not others?  And why the desired
characters?

David Gast
gast@cs.ucla.edu
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