Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga 500 Message-ID: <2097@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 12-Jul-87 15:31:16 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2097 Posted: Sun Jul 12 15:31:16 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jul-87 01:49:42 EDT References: <8706240729.AA06151@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1222@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> <6257@eddie.MIT.EDU> <2071@cbmvax.UUCP> <460@pttesac.UUCP> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 32 In article <460@pttesac.UUCP> vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers) writes: > In article <2071@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: > ... > +Some people, notably those with A1000's are less than thrilled with new > +layout. Others have been asking how to hook up the new keyboard to the > +A1000! It's not the kind of thing you can get everyone to agree about... > > How about leaving the f***ing thing (pardon my french) *one* > way and sticking with it, or: Why? Was the original perfect? Things have changed since the A1000 and will change more in the future. Our duty is to try to maintain as much compatibility as we can, and to try not to screw up too badly. > Giving us a keyboard with holes and a bunch of keys we can put > where we want. I'm talking about a: > > *KEYBOARD CONSTRUCTION SET* > > I'll take 1% of the royalties. Thank you. Well, believe it ot not, we tried to do this, at least for the European keyboards. Ship a standard keyboard to everyone, and a nice little plastic bag of keytops so the user could customize the keyboard for their locale. Unfortunatly, the sales types were less impressed with this idea than engineering was. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)