Re: AAAAAUGH! Dead IIgs keyboard!

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

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:> I really don't want to have to buy a new keyboard, particularly since that
:> would probably mean getting a keyboard with the CONTROL key in the wrong
:> place...

:      As any user of some modern PC keyboards can confirm, having the Control
: keys in the wrong place is definitely something to avoid.

I've gotten used to it and now having CTRL above shift seems abnormal. Even
more so when you factor in how most up to date keyboards have a pair of
CTRL keys. I keep my original standard keyboard (M0116) on my IIgs; the
two IIgs keyboards I have on hand are mothballed since they feel flimsy and
have smaller keycaps than I care for. The original standard has the same
layout as the IIgs keyboard, only bigger and sturdier. So if you really 
want the IIgs style layout, I'd look in some Mac forsale groups for an
original standard. But mine which I bought in '92 was one of the last new
ones to be had so any used one you get will have some mileage on it.
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