Re: The Apple IIGS ADB Keyboard Lives!

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <Ntw43.1117$9y5.47755@news12.ispnews.com>, Randy Shackelford
<shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

> Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
> : The Apple IIGS ADB Keyboard was the world's first
> : ADB keyboard and still is the most beautiful.  We
> : all thought this keyboard died with the IIGS, but I've
> : recently discovered what REALLY happened to it.
> 
> In this universe, the IIgs keyboard is a small, flimsy, hard to type on piece
> of junk. I mothballed mine seven years ago in favor of one of the last new 
> copies of the original standard keyboard to be had. That is hands down the
> best standard keyboard. The extended II is the best keyboard ever made.
> -- 
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Personally, I've always been partial to the short-lived (and wildly
underwhelming to the public) AppleDesign Adjustable Keyboard. It may or
may not be helping me from getting RSI in my wrists due to the fact that I
kind of sit at a wierd angle, but I like the ergonomics of it and
especially the extra buttons, like mute and volume control...I wonder how
hard it would be to throw together a small GS add-on to receive the values
sent by those keys and act accordingly. Hmm. Unless one already exists? As
far as the other keyboards go though, I used the later model ADB keyboard
(LC era) for a long time and the only thing I didn't really like was the
placement of the cursor keys and no f-keys. The other keyboards, for me at
least, have either had a problem of the keys being too high or low, or too
close or far apart, IMO.