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Subject: alternate keyboard?
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Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 02:19:23 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 13 02:19:23 1984
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From:  Jerry Sweet 


Are there any alternative (i.e. close-to-Selectric configuration) keyboards
available for the IBM XT?

I find that the positions of the shift and return keys on the XT are enough
to increase my typing errors by 70% and decrease my typing speed by a
similar amount. If the IBM XT keyboard were the only keyboard that I used,
the problem would go away, but for most of the day, I must use four other
keyboards that have more in common with each other than with the IBM
keyboard.

I have heard that there is software available to convert the "weird" keys to
"expected" keys, but this is not the optimum solution. Yes, I really want a
different keyboard.  The keyboard must not require any soldering, rewiring,
or reprogamming to work; it must plug right into the XT chassis, no fuss, no
muss.

Please...no religious keyboard issue flaming; I want information, not
attempts to convert me.

-jns