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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!psgrain!news.tek.com!news!phils From: phils@satori.tv.tek.com (Phil Staub) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: UNIX-style keyboards Date: 06 Dec 1994 18:26:16 GMT Organization: Tektronix TV Products Lines: 44 Message-ID: <PHILS.94Dec6102616@satori.tv.tek.com> References: <3c01fk$fhb@news.panix.com> <1994Dec5.224620.13596@fsl.noaa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: satori.tv.tek.com In-reply-to: kelly@woody.fsl.noaa.gov's message of Mon, 5 Dec 1994 22:46:20 GMT In article <1994Dec5.224620.13596@fsl.noaa.gov> kelly@woody.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) writes: > In article <3c01fk$fhb@news.panix.com>, Wayne Berke <berke@panix.com> wrote: > >Can anyone tell me how to obtain UNIX-style keyboards. All they have > >in stores is the stupid "CAPS-lock where CNTL key should be" models. > > I agree: those models are stupid. IBM must've been trying to target > secretaries and managers when they decided to put CapsLock in that > position. Luckily, I'm neither. > > Computer Express (http://cexpress.com:2700/) has a programmable model > but it's rather expensive. Define 'expensive', please. > > Cheaper alternative: If you're running FreeBSD, the kbdcontrol command > will let you put CTRL where it should be. If you're running X, the > xmodmap command will let you do that as well. > > --k I've been a satisfied Northgate keyboard user for years (I've had 3, not because they wore out, but because I made the mistake of selling one with my old home computer, rather than replace it with a cheap IBM101 layout clone. I won't make that mistake again. Then I've also got one on my computer at work.) They are switch programmable for CTRL/CAPS LOCK and have keycaps which can be replaced with ones with the proper legends (supplied). These babies are not cheap when compared to the run-of-the-mill commodity keyboard, but they are built like a rock, have a wonderful (IMHO) tactile feel, and are well worth the money. Don't know what I'll do if Northgate ever stops building keyboards. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Staub, phils@tv.tv.tek.com Tektronix Television Division (503) 627-6910 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Staub, phils@tv.tv.tek.com Tektronix Television Division (503) 627-6910