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In article <VDoHy2w163w@zl2tnm.gp.co.nz> don@zl2tnm.gp.co.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
>... The problem with the 201 is that there is no
>clear indication of when the key has been pressed, and the key's don't
>stop but just get harder to press as you push them down.  Ugh -- I've
>used them for six years, and still hate them.

  I also find the mushy feel disagreeable, but I've found that turning on the 
key-click capability helps the feedback problem quite a bit.  If the
real history were told, you might find that audible key-click was
provided as an afterthought for a poorly designed VT52 keyboard with no
tactile feedback and there was too large of a user base to change things
later.

  A far worse problem for me has been the placement of an extra key
between the '" and RETURN.  Whoever it was at DEC and/or SUN that decided
this to be an acceptable place to put a key should be shot. I have to
work on Macintoshes at work as well as this Decstation with its LK201,
and I am forever hitting the back-slash instead of RETURN.  To add
insult to injury, the delete key must be pressed TWICE to delete the
back-slash, it being an escape key for the DECterm.

  DEC would do well to provide an optional interface for third-party keyboards.

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Steve Wald
Motorola Inc.
wald@dover.sps.mot.com