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PCMacKey

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From: Sugih Jamin
Date: Fri, 08 May 1987 05:03
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Hello,

I have been "playing" with the Mac for sometime now.  I just LOVE it.
Even though it is not as powerful as a SUN of a MicroVax, it is great-- 
yet simple--in graphical document preparation.  I never thought I'll
use it for anything else, though.  

Who would have guessed that the time will come when I'll have to program
the Mac.  I have got a LightSpeed C compiler and some reference books, 
I think I'm all set for a grueling summer :(.  

Nevertheless, maybe it is because I have been spoiled by all the niceties 
available to me, I found one aspect lacking in the Mac programming 
environment: the keyboard.

It certainly is not the smoothest keyboard in comparison to all the 
other systems' I have come to know of, including the PC's.  The keys 
are coarse.  The cursor keys are not laid out the way I expected them 
to be.  The control (command?) key is out of place, the Caps Lock key 
is where it should *not* be; and who would ever need two return/enter 
keys? One being so close to the other.  Only the meta (option? alt?) 
key is logically placed.  Not to mention all the time I have spent
searching for the ESC key when dialing up to the UNIX system.  
Anyway, the other day when reading I think, MacWorld, I ran across 
an ad for a $120 PC-like keyboard for the Mac. It sounds pretty 
interesting.  My questions are:

	Has anybody used PCMacKey before?
	Is it smooth and "logically" laid out?
	More IMPORTANT, is it 100% Mac "compatible"?

If you have any info regarding this topic, please e-mail it to me.

Thank's before hand.


Sugih Jamin
(c60b-jk@buddy.Berkeley.EDU)
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