Re: Non-mushy keyboards

[Alan Heubert aheubert@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks, Peter. Can you tell me what those software solutions are? And in
that case, what do people recommend as the keyboard with the feel closest
to the original IBM (or to the Northgate), even if the function keys and/or
Ctrl key are in the "wrong" place?


At 06:48 AM 9/6/1999 +0900, you wrote:
>Alan Heubert:
>
>>Does anyone have a good, clicky (i.e. non-mushy) keyboard to
>>recommend, with the Ctrl key next to the "A"? . . . A good,
>>clicky tactile response, and the control key well placed are
>>what I care about most.
>
>Now that even Toshiba has followed IBM's idiocy in placing the useful Ctrl
>where you have to hunt for it and the seldom-useful CapsLock where
>senescent typists demand it, I don't think you'll find such a
>keyboard--though you might find one that is so switchable by DIPs.
>
>However, there are numerous software solutions for switching around these
>or other keys. They're trouble-free; I use one myself on two Northgateless
>machines.
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>Peter Evans 
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