Submission for mod-computers-apollo

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2 total messages Started by bobr Fri, 30 Jan 1987 21:55

#340

Author: bobr
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1987 21:55

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Path: zeus!bobr
From: bobr@zeus.TEK.COM (Robert Reed)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.apollo
Subject: Re: CAPS LOCK
Message-ID: <1174@zeus.TEK.COM>
Date: 30 Jan 87 21:55:05 GMT
References: <8701292300.AA03506@yale-eli.YALE.ARPA>
Reply-To: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed)
Organization: CAE Systems Division, Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR
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I think that Apollo keyboards in general are poorly engineered.  I hadn't
run into a keyboard with contact bounce for YEARS--until I recently started
using a low profile DN300 keyboard.  I hadn't SEEN a keyboard using the
archaic REPEAT key--until I started using an Apollo.  The 3000 doesn't seem
to have corrected the latter problem.  I haven't used the 3000 enough to
notice whether the contact bounce has been fixed.
-- 
Robert Reed, Tektronix CAE Systems Division, bobr@zeus.TEK

Re: Submission for mod-computers-apollo

#346

Author: hucka
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1987 18:23

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In article <8701302155.AA15447@zeus.TEK> bobr@zeus.tek.com (Robert Reed) writes:
>
>I think that Apollo keyboards in general are poorly engineered.  I hadn't
>run into a keyboard with contact bounce for YEARS--until I recently started
>using a low profile DN300 keyboard.  I hadn't SEEN a keyboard using the
>archaic REPEAT key--until I started using an Apollo.  The 3000 doesn't seem
>to have corrected the latter problem.  I haven't used the 3000 enough to
>notice whether the contact bounce has been fixed.

	I must admit I was surprised to see a <REPEAT> key on a keyboard
when I first began using Apollo systems, but since getting used to it
I find it's one of best things about them (and it's very easy to get
used to that key).  It gives you much better control over your keyboard
and speeds input, because when <REPEAT> is held down the other keys
repeat *immediately*, unlike regular keyboards where there is a
noticeable pause between the time you press the key and the time it
begins to repeat.  I now always miss this feature when I must use
other keyboards.

	The keyboard bounce is indeed an annoyance.  I gather it was 
only present on older DN3xx machines; at Utah we have a mix of Apollos, and
the newer DN3xx and DN3000 have no bounce and no metallic click.

							Mike
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*/\/\     Michael Hucka, PASS Research Group, University of Utah  /\   /\  /\
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