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Re: IBM RT Console: Great Kbd!!!

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From: Jim Morton
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1989 00:05
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In article <14991@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu writes:
> I would like to praise IBM's keyboard and console display for
> the RT/PC. The keyboard is the *best* keyboard
> I have ever used on a computer!!! It has perfect, soft, tactile ...

I agree. Unfortunately, I believe RT's shipped since the first of the
year or so have the PS/2 style "click-clack" keyboard instead of the
original RT "soft thump" keyboard. I only have the older style - someone
else want to comment on this?
--
Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
...uunet!applix!jim    jim@applix.com
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From: jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: IBM RT Console: Great Kbd!!!
Summary: newer RT keyboard
Message-ID: <996@applix.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 89 00:05:17 GMT
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Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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