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My favorite keyboard (was Re: Incompetant user stories...)
- Subject: My favorite keyboard (was Re: Incompetant user stories...)
- From: kh55250@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kyle Hasselbacher)
- Date: 10 Sep 1993 00:21:59 GMT
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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enf1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer) writes:
>roth@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Roth Mark Daniel) writes:
>>I've been using the same keyboard through two PCs (Anybody else so
>>religiously attached to their keyboard that they refuse to switch?),
>Keyboards deserve to be a religious issue. I will cling to the keyboard
>that came with my Apple IIgs until it croaks because: 1) the Control,
>Esc, and Caps Lock keys are in the "right" place; 2) the arrow keys
>are where I expect to find them (and in the correct left, right, down,
>up order); 3) it has an excellent feel, unlike the mushy things Apple
>sells now; 4) it doesn't suffer from the O-key bug that the Extended
>keyboards do. I can't believe that anyone actually pays for the junk
>that Apple calls a keyboard these days.
I love my Apple IIgs keyboard too for all the reasons mentioned
above plus it fits nicely in my lap. The ADB connectors were never too
sturdy, though. After moving my machine back and forth between home and
school for a few years, the connection is getting a little shakey. Do they
still sell these keyboards?
--
Kyle Hasselbacher| Goodwill is achieved by many actions;
khassel@uiuc.edu | it can be lost by one.