Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!MCMANIS@usc-eclc From: MCMANIS%usc-eclc@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Keyboards Message-ID: <2356@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 15:03:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2356 Posted: Mon Jun 20 15:03:00 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jun-83 06:47:38 EDT Lines: 21 From: Chuck McManisI seems to me, that the ability to put intelligence into a keyboard is so trivial now that manufactures should jump at the idea of adding saleable features with a healthy ability to raise the price of their terminals/computers. The only draw back is that in order to have a completely relocate able keyboard, all of the keytops would have to be the same size, but for solutions to simple problems like Pournelle's back-tab on the TVI-950 and IBM's misplaced '\' a simple processor in the keyboard would suffice. I personally, would like to find either a VT100 keyboard or maybe a keytronic (ala IBM and DEC) keyboard that I can plug into my Digital Group Z80 with one RJ11C connector, and that has a KEYBOARD based reprogamability (sp?) as I have only limited memory and do not wish to change the software at all. (There is no BIOS per se in the DG system) Anyone know of such a beast? --Chuck -------