Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!rex!cleeland From: cleeland@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Chris Cleeland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacPortable has non-ISO keyboard layout Keywords: ADB keyboard ISO standard option doubble command keys Message-ID: <1121@rex.cs.tulane.edu> Date: 24 Sep 89 23:45:38 GMT References: <1738@draken.nada.kth.se> <19748@mimsy.UUCP> <4323@internal.Apple.COM> Reply-To: cleeland@rex.UUCP (Chris Cleeland) Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA Lines: 43 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: In article <4323@internal.Apple.COM> rickf@Apple.COM (Rick Fleischman) writes: >Actually, the keyboard on the Macintosh Portable is identical to the Apple >Standard Keyboard with a few exceptions: > >[ 1 and 2 delted to please inews] > >3) In order to make room for the "enter" key in the main keyboard, the >return key was shortened and the backslash key was moved from next to >the space bar to above the return key (to the right of the "right bracket") > >4) The enter key was placed in the spot vacated by the backslash key next >to the spacebar. > >Otherwise the keyboard is identical in key layout to the Apple Standard >Keyboard. > I don't know for sure, but it sounds pretty damned close to the keyboard I'm currently typing on -- a venerable ORIGINAL mac keyboard. The tiny one used on from 128 --> 512Ke. This is closer to "standard" terminal keyboard layouts than any of the other Apple keyboards, save the ADB Extended, which bears very close semblance to both the AT and the VT-220 keyboards. Just my $.02... Hit 'n' or '^N' right now -- the rest is 'inews' fodder. I H A T E I N E W S -- Thanks Chris Cleeland, Tulane University ADDRESS: cleeland@rex.tulane.cs.edu Disclaimer: "I'm a student -- I can't afford to buy one!"