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Re: IBM Keyboard Output

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From: Stephen Tell
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 1991 05:21
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In article <JON_SREE.91Feb19100617@world.std.com> jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth) writes:
>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 ... :-)
Yup! to each his own...

We have the LK201's everywhere, and more on the way...
Supposedly there's another DEC keyboard on the VT1000; anyone know
if they're interchangeable?

>...
>    _And_ , as a bonus, a true ESC key, which, frankly,
>was brain damaged to leave out in the original LK201. 

Thats my bigest beef with the LK201.  A close second is the silly
<> key between Z and left-shift.
Thank god for xmodmap - `~ becomes escape, F1 becomes `~,
, and . get < and > like they're supposed to, capslock becomes control,
control does nothing, help becomes capslock (I never use it, so I put
it out of the way.  Up near the LED seemed good), <X| becomes ^H...
God help anyone else who tries to use that machine when I'm logged in...

>/ Jon Sreekanth	>jon_sree@world.std.com

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Subject: Re: IBM Keyboard Output
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