Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ndsuvax!ncreed From: ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (Walter Reed) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: detachable keyboards and the A500 Message-ID: <1307@ndsuvax.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 88 14:49:50 GMT References: <8808060100.AA11069@jade.berkeley.edu> <3550@cadnetix.COM> <1192@astroatc.UUCP> <2644@sugar.uu.net> Reply-To: ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (Walter Reed) Organization: North Dakota State University Fargo, ND Lines: 16 In article <2644@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >Two questions: > (2) Why didn't IBM stick with the industry standard kayboard that > they had invented (Selectric-style) for the IBM-PC? (Not a flame, > I really want to know) A friend that works at IBM told me that they did that because the PC keyboard was made/designed by the COMPUTER department and not by the TYPEWRITER department. IBM almost has as much red tape as the government you know :-) It seems that the PC keyboard was the computer sections first real try with a keyboard... -- ------ Walter Reed ------ + uunet!ndsuvax!ncreed or ncreed@ndsuvax.BITNET "There's no point in being + or ncreed@plains.NoDak.edu grown up if you can't be + childish sometimes!" Dr. Who + USnAIL: 925 9th Ave W. West Fargo, ND 58078