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From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Extended keyboard alternatives?
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Date: 16 Aug 89 14:56:27 GMT
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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.  This was done due to much complaining from people who
wanted a "real" keyboard, and to give IBM types one more reason to move to
the Mac (IMHO).  I don't mind the layout that much since I've already
gotten used to it.  The problem is when I use my friend's SE with the
Standard keyboard and press the wrong keys.

's funny, Apple got flamed for not having an IBM layout keyboard, and now
that they have it, they get flamed for having it.

Just goes to show you can't please everyone :-)

-Ivan

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