Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!tecot From: tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Extended keyboard alternatives? Message-ID: <34034@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 16 Aug 89 00:52:35 GMT References: <1077@adobe.UUCP> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 22 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 was designed to be as similar to what MS-DOS machines commonly use. At the time, it was thought that there would be a large market for 80286 cards. >Does anyone know of an extended keyboard (i.e., with function >keys, I need those) that has the control key to the left of the >'a', rather than the ever-so-useful locking caps lock key? >And with the esc key somewhere slightly closer at hand than the >Outer Slobovia location on this monstrosity? I could live with >the rest of it if I could just have these two changed. I'd recommend the Apple Standard Keyboard. Function keys? How about Command-1, 2, 3, etc.? _emt