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In article <28386@ucsd.Edu> brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
>,...
>It is possible to build a box to map a PC keyboard into just about any
>kind of codes you might wish to have; thus you can put a small processor,
>uart, and other stuff together to allow you to, for example, pick your
>favourite PC keyboard (tilde and pipe keys in the right place, control
>key where God intended it to be, good feel) from the hundreds of keyboards
>on the market, and replace that awful piece of shit type-4 keyboard that
>comes with the SP*RCstations.  No, I haven't done it YET.
>	- Brian

Hey, some of us like the Sparcstation keyboards!  At least it has lots of 
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.  

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.  

Most everyone uses serialy-interfaced keycode-on-press, keycode-on-release
these days.  Shouldn't be terribly difficult.

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