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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
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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)