IMHO, the old clicky IBMs are aby far teh best. Too bad they don't make
them like that anymore. There is a surplus warehouse I know of that has some for
sale real cheap. I could get you one, if you want a good keyboard that bad.
I've bought a few for my machines at home.
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> Steve Reilly sent the following, quoting my original recommendation:
>
> >>> And after all, you don't _need_ Windows keys!
> >
> >>Go working at a Sun Sparc or Ultra for a while and you might reconsider
> >>that statement... ;-) Another set of modifiers can be dead handy at
> >>times...
> >
> >it's handy to be able to map alt/shift/sysrq to a spare metakey . . . or
> >even alt/ctrl/backspace, yada yada
>
> Since my origianal rec was an IBM keyboard, I don't see the connection;
> the IBM has alt, and ctrl and bs, and SysReq, it just doesn't have
> the funny keys next to the spacebar that go to the start menu and
> whatever the other one does. Are you saying that you could map your
> oddball functions to those keys? Well, OK, if you can do that and
> want to. In that case, what keyboard do you suggest? Most modern
> kb's, even those that come with name brand computers, are pretty
> mushy, IMHO.
>
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