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Article #43371Re: Northgate keyboards
From: David Gast
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 1990 00:46
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 1990 00:46
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>The Northgate keyboard doesn't have any of those key placement mistakes that
>have been on every IBM keyboard:
So it has the control key next to the "A" key? I have not seen this
particular keyboard.
If I wanted to buy a selectric typewriter, I would buy one, but I want to
use a computer and I need to hit the control key all the time and I cannot
remember the last time I used the caps lock key. I don't use FORTRAN?
(Didn't use the caps lock there either).
Why can't someone make a key board with the control key in the correct
place? Seems pretty simple to me. If there is such a beast, please let me
know. Actually, it seems that a setup program should allow you to remap
many of the keys -- perhaps even sending more than one character for certain
keys. The function keys do it, why not others? And why the desired
characters?
David Gast
gast@cs.ucla.edu
{uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!{ucla-cs,cs.ucla.edu}!gast
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