Re: Apple II case preferences....

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <3e8c2b07_1@news.iprimus.com.au>,
Mark Cummings <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote:
>the colour difference I am refering to is between the brown keys with white
>lettering, and the dark brown keys with black lettering. both on the earlier
>non-platinum models. the brown definately seems different and not a case of
>aging, although this is possibly due to the finish. the black lettered
>keyboards have a matt finish rather than the gloss finish of the white
>lettered keyboards, therefore tend to reflect less light making it look
>darker. would you agree ?

The finish on the newer keyboards stays matte until it's well-worn. :-)
(Even then, I think it's just the spacebar that has a shiny spot where my
thumb hits it.)

>another question that I just wondered is do the black lettered US IIe
>keyboards have icons for shift, caps-lock, and tab, and return etc. or is it
>printed in full like the Mac Plus keyboard. the Euro black lettered
>keyboards I have use icons.

No icons...they're labeled Shift, Caps Lock, Control, Return, Tab, and Esc.
The AFJROTC squadron I was with had a German-spec IIe (it was at
Kaiserslautern HS...go Raiders :-) ) with icons on most of those keys.  The
[]\` keys also had German-language characters on them.  A switch under the
keyboard switched between standard ASCII and German character sets, and it
also swapped the Y and Z keys (an annoyance if someone left it set to
German).

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