From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: Dec PC keyboard 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2291
Posted: Mon Jul 19 17:01:58 1982
Received: Mon Jul 19 17:01:58 1982

One problem anyone buying one of the DEC Personal Computers should be
aware of:  they have the same awful design mistake as the IBM PC in the
keyboard layout -- a key between SHIFT and Z.  Some people find they
adapt to this quickly;  some find such a keyboard totally unacceptable.
Jerry Pournelle called the IBM PC the biggest disappointment of his
life, for this and only this reason.

The moral is:  do not believe brochures that claim a "standard typewriter"
keyboard layout;  it ain't necessarily so.