Re: Unicomp followup

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

I agree that it's preferable to get the hardware right, but
I thought there were extremely limited options here regarding
hardware.


Separately, my eyes were opened by Carl posting a year or so back that
the cheap keyboards have become so good that you can get pretty much
everything you want by just going to Best Buy and buying the best buy
(couldn't resist that). I have used Northgate, Omnikey, Das Keyboard and
others, but none approaches the keyboard on the IBM Selectric, and the
cheapo's turn out to be fine, given that the ideal is not
available.


I do agree that removing the function keys on the left was one of the
most idiotic decisions of the 2nd millenium.


While I'm on this subject . . . here's another monumental stupidity:
smartphones whose onscreen keyboard places the backspace key right next
to (and similar in appearance to) the Enter key. Do these people not use
their own products?


--Harry


No, to me that is looking at
this through the wrong end of the telescope.  I tend to go for the
direct and straightforward solution: i.e. in original hardware, rather
than rejiggering everything with software. 

I'll have to go over all those links that Daniel sent, but I'm suspecting
that Unicomp may turn out to be the last of the Mohicans. 
(?)





   Jordan






From: Harry Binswanger


To: xy 

Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2018 5:08 AM

Subject: Re: Unicomp followup



Why can't you set the keys in XyWrite to put out whatever you want? And
if you sometimes hit the backslash when you intend to hit Enter, just set
the kid assignment for it to also put out Enter.


It is also completely comfortable to put a label tape on top of the key
cap, so those function keys will even "say" F1, F2, etc.



Use http://idkey.pm/ or the equivalent U2 frame to
get to the place in the .kind file to reassign.


Or am I missing something?