Re: Pining away for your old Northgate keyboard?

[Phil Smith phil@xxxxxxxx]

What I like about Gateway's Anykey keyboard is that I can program the
left-hand F keys (others, too, for that matter) with strange macro-names:
e.g., 500 0.1
which is actually a macro in an application I use (the SCORE music notation
system). So can the ordinary F keys, for that matter -- with some arcane,
little-documented DOS commands. But SCORE has its own settings for the
standard F keys and I haven't found a way to over-ride them; whereas it
listens to the extra set.
So does XyWrite, even though I don't know what scan codes they provide, and
thus don't enter them in any .KBD file.

Query: will the OmniKey keyboard do that? And will XyDOS (3 or 4) listen to
them?

Cheers,

Phil Smith



At 02:36 PM 11/12/97 +0000, you wrote:
>> Reply-to:   xywrite@xxxxxxxx
>> From:     Leslie Bialler 
>> To:      xywrite@xxxxxxxx
>> Subject:    Re: Pining away for your old Northgate keyboard?
>> Date:     Wed, 12 Nov 97 19:22:57 +0000
>
>> Gateway may still make those keyboards too. Dunno. I haven't seen 'em in
their
>> adds recently.
>>
>
>Completely different animal. The Northgate OmniKey keyboard was the
>"power writer's" keyboard--click-tactile as smooth and solid as IBM,
>function keys on the left where God intended them to be, a lily-pad
>sized ENTER key, switchable fvor the location of CNTR ALT and CAPS
>(complete with extra keycaps and a keycap puller). Jerry Pournelle
>was a big advocate of them (there was even a special model made to
>his specs for a time), and a lot of people who bought systems from
>other people threw away the keyboard in favor of a Northgate.
>
>I've bought two Gateways and been more than well pleased with those
>decisions, but the Gateway keyboards have never come close to the
>Northgate in quality or useability, IMO.
>
>Best,
>
>  K-Mac
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