From: utzoo!decvax!cca!BARBER@Mit-Xx@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Keyboards Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2677 Posted: Fri Aug 13 14:26:32 1982 Received: Tue Aug 17 07:16:45 1982 From: Steve BarberI really couldn't agree more that extra keys where they are not expected or wanted are a pain in the neck, and yes I get ticked when I use different keyboards during the same day on which and are interchanged, but the point I was trying to make is that all this whining about an extra key on an otherwise decent machine in a world where there is no accepted standard for keyboards is rather silly and ineffectual. I suppose changing keyboards is one of the prices we pay for rapidly advancing and experimental technologies. I know this probably belongs on WorkS, but what would be really nice would be to have terminals on which all keys are REDEFINABLE. That way we could even rig up things to be Dvorak rather that QWERTY if the mood struck. (I have a little program for my TRS-80 that does just this, although I never use it.) The major problem is having the physical keyboard reflect the current key definitions. Steve -------