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Subject: Keyboards
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Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 15:03:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 20 15:03:00 1983
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From:  Chuck McManis 


I 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
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