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Article #3064Re: Extended keyboard alternatives?
From: Michael Peirce
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1989 16:59
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1989 16:59
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In article <13544@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) writes:
>In article <1077@adobe.UUCP> jackson@adobe.COM (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>>I am typing this on my Apple extended keyboard, which I hate.
>>I am firmly convinced that the key layout was done after long
>>consultations with a Ouija board; the only other possibility is
>>that the key layout spec was written by one of those strange
>>artsy-fartsy types as a performance art piece.
>
>Actually, the Extended Keyboard layout was lifted right off IBM's extended
>keyboard layout.
Funny, at DEC we thought the Apple extended keyboard was a direct rip-off
of the DEC LK-201 keyboard (used on VT-220 terminals). We thought it was
wonderful that the Mac's VT emulation even included keyboard emulation! :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!apple!claris!peirce From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Extended keyboard alternatives? Message-ID: <10488@claris.com> Date: 16 Aug 89 16:59:49 GMT References: <1077@adobe.UUCP> <13544@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce) Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA Lines: 24