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 Barber 

   I 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
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