Re: Replacement keyboard for IIgs P/N C 658-4081

[GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (GUDAT,HENRIK MICHAEL)]

In <4cd22c$g1f@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us writes:

> If the keyboard II you looked at was a replica of the IIgs keyboard, I'd
> like to know where you saw it!  Look closer...Apple has fallen victim to
> the PC bug that scrambles all the keys, particularly the CONTROL and CAPS
> LOCK keys, sometimes ESCAPE as well.  For what it is worth, CONTROL
> belongs on the third row right next to the "A", while Caps Lock belongs in
> the lower left-hand corner.  That's where Apple put it on the ][e and
> IIgs; that's where Sun puts it on the Sparc.  But that's NOT where you'll
> find those keys on a current Mac keyboard or on a "standard" Pee Cee keyboard.

Recently, I showed a Mac novice that his keyboard *did* have an escape key...it
was to the right of the space bar. He was looking for it for more than a
year...

Oh well.

- henrik :)