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Article #41808Re: Anyone ever exchange the ctrl and caps lock keys?
From: Warren Gish;269A LSA;x3-9219
Date: Wed, 03 May 1989 07:01
Date: Wed, 03 May 1989 07:01
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In article <491@grand.UUCP> day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes: >I am hoping that it will be easy to take the >locking mechanism from the Caps Lock key and >install it on the Ctrl key, and then install >an init to exchange the mapping for the two >keys. Anyone ever done that? Am I dreaming? > >You can exchange them on PC-Xenix and DOS. > > --dave yost Yes, it is easy to swap the keys. The re-mapping was accomplished by cutting a couple of copper traces on the keyboard's circuit board and soldering on a couple of wires. Very easy if you can keep from going cross-eyed following the traces. No messy software to deal with, either. And now the pinkie on my left hand rarely has a bad day! :-) Warren Gish Consultant for Biology U C Berkeley
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!gershwin.berkeley.edu!cswarren From: cswarren@gershwin.berkeley.edu (Warren Gish;269A LSA;x3-9219) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Anyone ever exchange the ctrl and caps lock keys? Message-ID: <23962@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 3 May 89 07:01:01 GMT References: <491@grand.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: cswarren@gershwin.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Warren Gish) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 20