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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Extended keyboard alternatives?
Message-ID: <10488@claris.com>
Date: 16 Aug 89 16:59:49 GMT
References: <1077@adobe.UUCP> <13544@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <13544@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) writes:
>In article <1077@adobe.UUCP> jackson@adobe.COM (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>>I am typing this on my Apple extended keyboard, which I hate.
>>I am firmly convinced that the key layout was done after long
>>consultations with a Ouija board; the only other possibility is
>>that the key layout spec was written by one of those strange
>>artsy-fartsy types as a performance art piece.
>
>Actually, the Extended Keyboard layout was lifted right off IBM's extended
>keyboard layout. 

Funny, at DEC we thought the Apple extended keyboard was a direct rip-off
of the DEC LK-201 keyboard (used on VT-220 terminals).  We thought it was
wonderful that the Mac's VT emulation even included keyboard emulation! :-)

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