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From: crs@lanl-a.UUCP
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Subject: Re: personal computer under 000
Message-ID: <356@lanl-a.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 08:18:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 30 08:18:24 1983
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If you are a touch typist, try out the keyboard before you by a Commodore.
It is the only keyboard I've ever seen where the *home keys* are non-
standard; they have placed the colon where the semicolon belongs.  I just
spent several hours cutting traces and rewiring the colon and semicolon
keys on my VIC.  The operation is nontrivial because the printed wiring
traces are thin and because it happens that they are very dense in the
vicinity of the keys in question.  Presumably, it would also have been
possible to patch the software but I am a hardware type so I took the
route more familiar to me.

Both the VIC an the 64 use this keyboard layout; does anyone know if
Commodore will continue to use it on other models?