Documentation for the AT&T Sceptre Videotex terminal
woodelf
bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Wed Nov 21 13:00:19 CST 2007
Richard wrote:
>> Well, yes, obviously the location is the issue, but it is still just another
>> tedious MS-bash; I've got an APL keyboard here, and I think every
>> "classic" terminal or computer keyboard I have here is different in
>> some "improved" way but I don't hear complaints about that, or all the
>> different PC layouts, especially the enter, backspace and \ keys.
>
> Exactly.
I did ... see windows keyboards. But then I am cheap, I don't spend
money on a real keyboard. Not that I have seen a modern keyboard I did like.
> Particularly since it was claimed that *any* keyboard with a Win key
> is the #1 awful keyboard. Give me a fsckin' break. There are plenty
> of keyboards that are much worse than that -- there are keyboards that
> require you to lift your fingers off the home keys in order to reach
> CTRL, for instance. Try that with emacs. There are plenty of
> keyboards that don't let you type lower case. And so-on.
So where is your stock of classic keyboards? They only keyboards
I can think of that are not lowercase today is your TTY's.
Ben alias woodelf
PS. No comments about where to buy a better keyboard... I am broke
until after the new year.
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