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From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Don't Bash Suns)
Keywords: keyboards
Message-ID: <2136@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 00:11:59 GMT
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In article <22166@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> spencer@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Stephen Spencer) writes:
>In article <452@quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>> In article <288@wucs1.wustl.edu> jps@wucs1.UUCP (James Sterbenz) 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've used Sun-2 and Sun-3 keyboards, and find that the Sun-3 is by far the 
>better of the two.  The little rubber keys on the Sun-2 were...interesting,
>but those little springs (well, the noise they make) underneath the keys
>was REAL irritating.  The Sun-3 has a very nice feel to it, although it,
>every once in awhile, beeps at me when I let loose with a burst of keystrokes.



The 2/50 on my desk now doesn't have a @$%@$#%$#$%#%#$ capslock key, which
I absolutely love.  The Apollo 3000 that was there before had a capslock
key that was jealous of the control key, and intercepted it often.

I've seen two different kinds of sun 2 keyboards, the "clicky" and the
"mushy".  I think most of the ones here are "clicky" but have been used
so much that they're somewhat less loud.  The compaq clone here has
an incredibly bad keyboard.  Say what you want about the VT52, but
I can type pretty fast on that keyboard.

The TI Explorer (lisp machine) has the return key where the control
key should be, so it could be worse.

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Anthony A. Datri,SysAdmin,StepstoneCorporation,stpstn!aad