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Re: keyboards

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From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1985 03:17
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In article <106@otto.UUCP> carl@otto.UUCP (Carl Shapiro) writes:
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>Does anyone know of a VT100 or VT220 style keyboard for the Mac?

If you add the optional numeric keypad to the Mac, MacTerminal (for
example) will give you the complete functionality of a VT100 keyboard.
Differences are the lack of a line-feed key, the overloading of the 
escape key (used for escape, backquote and tilde using shift and
control/shift) and a different placement for the function keys PF1 to PF4
(they are on the keypad, and require a shift character). MacTerminal even
makes the function LED's available on the screen. I can use it (I've done
some minor remapping, see my recent article on that) to make it a little
more convenient, but it works quite well with our local version of Emacs,
which really likes the keypad. I work with a VT100 compatible terminal at
work, and the Mac at home, and I use the same termcap for both with no
problems, and have no problem switching between the two.
-- 
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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: keyboards
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Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 23:17:46 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 22 23:17:46 1985
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