Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: bzs@bu-cs.bu.edu (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Sun VT220-PS/2 style keyboard Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <567@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 29 Jul 89 18:31:17 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 33 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 86, message 6 of 18 From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) >After hearing about how the type 4 keyboard is a creation of the devil, >I've finally had a chance to use one. I was pleasantly surprised. It >achieves reasonable compatibility with traditional Unix and PC keyboard >designs. Presumably PC compatibility is a goal both because it's used on >the 386i and because there is DOS emulation software for the Sparcstation. >Makes some sense. I agree, it took an hour or two to get used to but I'm satisfied with it. Maybe not the greatest keyboard I've ever used but it's fine and I hardly think about it. The only small gripe I have, and this may just be me, is that the way the keys above the numeric row are angled I find I hit them a lot when reaching for a numeric, a little distance might have helped or lower profile on the keycaps, not sure, not fatal, getting used to this also. I liked the Sun3 keyboard but the travel was a bit stiff for me and I often found I didn't really have the shift key down all the way which was annoying. I guess my favorite keyboards were the VT100 and old SUN2 (which I can verify survived a 16-oz coffee bath and subsequent clean-up w/o a glitch :-) But this one is just fine, I don't understand what all the hub-bub is about. I suggest people give it a chance before getting negative, have more faith in your fingers' learning curves. -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade 1330 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 Internet: bzs@skuld.std.com UUCP: encore!xylogics!skuld!bzs or uunet!skuld!bzs