Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!jsweet@uci-750a From: jsweet%uci-750a@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Alternate Keyboard Query Message-ID: <17389@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 02:19:23 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17389 Posted: Tue Mar 13 02:19:23 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 00:56:07 EST Lines: 22 From: Jerry SweetAre 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