Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Seeking extended keyboard for MacPlus Message-ID: <3722@fluke.COM> Date: 11 May 88 21:22:39 GMT References: <1174@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <188@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 29 >In article <1174@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum) writes: >>Shifting keyboards between the Mac II and SE at work and Mac Plus at home >>is about to drive me bonkers. Does anyone know of a keyboard for the Mac Plus >>that has real control and escape keys? Hmm.. by "real", I assume you mean a ctrl key in the middle-left-hand side of the keyboard, and an escape key in the upper-left-hand corner. I have the DataDesk, and the non-ADB version (for the Mac Plus) has no real control keys, just an option and Clover key near the space bar at the bottom. No escape key either, though I use VersaTerm, which does a nice aliasing feature for the ` key. I use a Sun/3 keyboard all day, and while there is a touch of culture shock on getting home, the Datadesk is *so* nice and comfortable that it takes only a few seconds to get used to it (I'm up to my high school speed of typing with the DataDesk). We've got a Tangent Technologies keyboard in-house for the Mac+. It has a real control key but no real escape key. THe user is expected to use the ctrl key as a Clover key when using the Mac (they're equivalent to my Mental KeySearch brain cells, anyway...). "You can thank the Rock 'n Roll detector for leading you to your doom!" "Thanks!" --- Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind... <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>