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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2313 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:53:40 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!gmd.de!ceres.fokus.gmd.de!gmdtub!bigfoot!tmh From: tmh@keks.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Sun style keyboards? Message-ID: <TMH.93Feb26200426@keks.first.gmd.de> Date: 26 Feb 93 19:04:26 GMT References: <1993Feb22.153351.9773@craycos.com> Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de Organization: GMD-FIRST, Berlin Lines: 36 In-reply-to: scott@craycos.com's message of 22 Feb 93 15:33:51 GMT In article <1993Feb22.153351.9773@craycos.com> scott@craycos.com (Scott Bolte) writes: A keyboard question. Well actually, a single key question. All the local PC shops stock the fairly standard PC keyboards. You know the type, the escape key is as far away as possible from the core keys. Now I have big hands, but I would still rather the escape key was just a bit closer. So does anyone know of a mail order source for a more UNIX friendly keyboard? Something close the the Sun Type-4 keyboard that I have at work would be welcome. There is the perfect keyboard. It used to be made by IBM and came with the original AT in 1985. It has the control key where God intended it to be, great mechanics, a wounderful editing pad (can be switched to do numbers, but who would want that) and plenty of function keys where you can get at them without having to look at the keyboard. Alas IBM listened to the 1-2-3 types, looked at DEC keybords and started saving on the mechanics... all that resulted in the MF-2 keyboard: a programmer's and writers bane (who in the world needs a CAPS LOCK key?) Over the last couple of years I have collected three AT type keyboards (two originals and one fake). I pray to Turing that they will last me as long as I can still move my fingers so I'll never have to use one of those others... However there are dark clouds at the horizon: NT recognizes my keyboard as 84/86 key during setup, however it ignores that info and installs an MF-2 driver... Yuck! --- Thomas M. Hoberg | Internet: tmh@first.gmd.de 1000 Berlin 41 | tmh@cs.tu-berlin.de Wielandstr. 4 | Germany | BITNET: tmh@tub.bitnet +49-30-851-50-21 |