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From: ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: IBM RT Console: Great Kbd!!!
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Date: 11 Aug 89 21:59:11 GMT
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Reply-To: ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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I would like to praise IBM's keyboard and console display for
the RT/PC. The screen has nice, big, characters which
are very easy to read. The keyboard is the *best* keyboard
I have ever used on a computer!!! It has perfect, soft, tactile
feedback, the slope is right, and it's easy to reprogram any
of the keys, especially function keys, which makes working
with some programs much easier. I hope someone at IBM is
reading this, I want them to make more keyboards like
this! It's much better than the loud, klunky keyboard
attached to the PS2, even though it's still a decent
keyboard.

Let me see if I can find out the model number or something,
so that IBM will know exactly what I'm talking about. Aha,
hope this helps: the environment variable TERM says
I've got an 'ibm6155', and, looking in /etc/termcap,
it's called "Extended Monochrome Graphics Display" [the RT
is running 4.3bsd].

Finally, I want to mail this directly to IBM, but don't
know what the email address is. Anyone know?

PLEASE EMAIL all responses, I don't know if I'll become
a regular reader of this NG.


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