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In article <1686@borg.cs.unc.edu> tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell) writes:

   function keys to go around...   Wanna sell that type-4 keyboard real cheap?
   You want to talk nasty keyboards, try the one on the DECstation 3100 and
   related machines.  

If they're LK201 --- VT200-series terminal keyboards --- I love 'em ! 
(Shades of religious war on the subject of keyboards here ... :-)

   You're right that someone ought to do a box to let everyone plug their
   favorite keyboards into their favorite machines.  Imagine a PC
   keyboard on your Sparc, a Macintosh keyboard on your friend's PC, and
   the Sparc keyboard on your Amiga.  

How true. In the days when I worked for a large computer company 
headquartered in Maynard, Mass, I was so frustrated by the alleged
VT200 emulators on the PC that I started building such a gadget. 
But my present 386 clone comes with an almost perfect LK201 clone
keyboard : full 4 keys on the top row of the function keypad, 
large 0, ENTER and + keys, cursor keys and 6 more above them, in 
the right places. _And_ , as a bonus, a true ESC key, which, frankly,
was brain damaged to leave out in the original LK201. 

Oh, well. 

/ Jon Sreekanth

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