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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Don't Bash Suns)
Keywords: keyboards
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Date: 23 Sep 88 02:06:58 GMT
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In article <716@mace.cc.purdue.edu> mtr@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Miek Rowan) writes:
>In article <452@quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>> _Which_ Sun?  The Sun-2, Sun-3, and Sun-386i have different keyboards.
>> The one on the Sun-3 is the nicest keyboard I have ever used, bar none.
>> (I have used several dozen types of terminals, and type moderately fast.)

>I think you must be on drugs!
Coffee, yes.  Anything else, never.

>I can't claim to have used the Sun-2 or
>386i's keyboards, but the Sun 3's keyboard is really bad.
It's a nice solid keyboard that doesn't flex, make irritating sounds,
isn't spongy, has all the keys in sensible places (those terminals with
the "< >" key in between the "z" key and the "SHIFT" key drive me crazy),
is the right height off the desk, has keys which don't wobble, a DELETE key
which is a decent size, a SHIFT key and a META key on each side, ... ...

>It seems really cheap, and the feel just isn't there.
_What_ "feel", exactly?  As for cheap, try an Atari ST-520 keyboard...

>There are no dots on the keys
>(doesn't everyone else work in the dark?)
I'm typing this in the dark right now.  What kind of beginner needs dots?
And if you need dots and they're not there, why not get some correction
fluid and just put a wee dab on those keys, and presto, dots!  (I dislike
dots because I don't like things jabbing into my fingertips.)

I've used PERQs, 3270s, VT05s, VT100s, ..., and the Sun-3 keyboard is the
first one I've really liked and found effortless to use.