Keyboard Madness!

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

I just need a chance to vent a little here...

I recently bought a IIgs.  By now, I think that's a well-known fact around
here.  I'm coming to it from my Mom's ][e...also, I believe, a well-known
fact.

Trouble is, as much as I like the GS, I HATE the little chicklet keyboard.
 I'd rather have a nice big full-stroke keyboard that my fingers won't
slide off of.  In fact, what I'd REALLY like is a genuine ][e keyboard
adapted for the ADB.

Fortunately, there are a lot of nice keyboards out there, since most of
the Mac keyboards will work with the GS.  Nice bit of standardization
Apple did, that.

But has anyone else noticed the lunacy that has crept into keyboard design?

How often do you use the CONTROL, ESC, CAPS-LOCK, and backquote keys?  If
you are like me, you probably use the ESC and CONTROL keys fairly often,
the CAPS LOCK seldom, and the back-quote almost never.  So why has the ESC
key migrated to an inaccessible location next to the space bar, putting
the back-quote up in the ESC corner?

As if that isn't bad enough, now the CAPS LOCK key has tripled in size,
become non-locking, and joined the home-row...while the CONTROL key has
shrunk to near-nothingness, and migrated to the old CAPS LOCK location. 
It isn't just that it is different from the 'classic' layout; this new
layout makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE AT ALL!

And don't give me that garbage about how the Pee Cee's all do it; it
doesn't make any sense there, either!

And I was upset when they moved the Solid Apple key to the other side of
the keyboard, thus really screwing up my pinball game play...!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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