Re: Keyboard Madness!

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

(Professor Empson reminds us that the ][e keyboard is not ADB)

Of course. And it is a serious limitation for other reasons as well.  If I
am not mistaken (which, naturally, I could be!), one of the features I've
come to really like about the GS would vanish if the keyboard were not ADB
compatible...since the GS allows the keys to all be seperately identified,
I can send ^J, ^K, ^H, and ^U characters to my Internet service without
any gymnastics, while my term program converts all the arrow keys to the
VT-100 equivalents.

Anyway, I am the one who started this whole thread.  It's all because of a
trip I took to CompUSA yesterday, where I looked at various ADB keyboards
and hated all of them because they swapped the CTRL, CAPS LOCK, ESC, and
backquote keys around.

It looks like the solution I'm looking for is the original Keyboard II or
whatever.  I looked at a Keyboard II yesterday...it looked like crap, felt
like crap, and had all the keys rearranged.  But now that I think about
it, I have seen the old version, and that may be exactly what I want. 
Hmmm...I'll have to keep my eyes open.

The GS keyboard is nice in a couple of ways...notably its diminutive size.
 I just wish it were sculpted a little better... 8-)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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