Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!lanl-a!crs From: crs@lanl-a.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: personal computer under 000 Message-ID: <356@lanl-a.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 08:18:24 EDT Article-I.D.: lanl-a.356 Posted: Thu Jun 30 08:18:24 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 07:36:22 EDT References: ihuxw.382 Lines: 12 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?