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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Subject: Re: Keyboards (was Re: Wake Up Commodore!)
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.140825.7960@grebyn.com>
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
References: <N&2-=9%@irie.ais.org> <20124@cbmvax.commodore.com> <VINSCI.91Mar28212240@nic.nic.funet.fi>
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1991 14:08:25 GMT

In article <VINSCI.91Mar28212240@nic.nic.funet.fi> vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes:
>Dave Haynie writes:
>>In article <N&2-=9%@irie.ais.org> jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg) writes:
>>>In article <1991Mar22.040419.27268@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>>>1) Attached keyboard is ugly
>>
>>>Yep, actually, I wish that C= would use audible IBM-type keyboards. (The only
>>>thing IBM does right IS their keyboards...)
>>
>>Ugh!  Say it ain't so!  Someone actually likes those IBM keyboards?!?  The
>>PC-AT keyboard layout was designed by the devil itself.  A giant CAPS-LOCK key,
>>and the CTRL key off in never-never land.  The only proper keyboard is
>>something reasonably DEC VT100-ish.
>
>You mean VT220-ish, of course, the only sane industry standard
>keyboard. On the Amiga, I really miss those extra four editing keys
>above the cursor keys! Hmmm, VT220 keyboards are backwards compatible
>with the Amiga keyboard, it seems... When can I order mine, Commodore?

First, Handshake does quite a good job of making the Amiga keypad the
functional duplicate of the VT100/220 keypad.  I can EDT using it
without having to stop and look for the function keys. Ahhh...

When the VT220 was first released I considered it to be flawed
in that it was missing ESC and BS keys, and the < and > were in a horrible
place.  Never mind that ESC, BS, and LF appear on the funciton key row;
those only work in VT100 mode.

And finally, you should check out the VT420 keyboard.  It's about as
close to the perfect keyboard as I can think of.
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