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
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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...

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