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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!john.hendrikx
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 96 13:56:23 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
- Message-ID: <john.hendrikx.46af@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 11 Jan 96 Byron Montgomerie wrote to All:
-
- BM> : I think he's right here, although I would settle for a A1200 style
- BM> case with a : cheap and easy way to upgrade it to a standard tower/pizza
- BM> casing with : detacheable keyboard provided by AT themselves.
-
- BM> Exactly. I would go for the mid tower case myself. The current a1200
- BM> motherboard would require a full tower case (riddiculous) because of
- BM> the dimensions. Basically, design the montherboard for a mid tower case
- BM> then design the shielding and plastic case around the motherboard. In
- BM> any case the motherboard has to be standardised to one size, it may as
- BM> well be the same as the PC size. Put an extra ide connector on it,
- BM> allow for pads near the ports so they can be wired out to the tower
- BM> case, ditto with the relavent keyboard lines. Actually, I would prefer
- BM> that AT dropped the custom keyboards and used PC ones, there are some
- BM> nice ones out there.
-
- You'd have to get one though with the extra MS keys on them, otherwise you'd
- have to 'lose' one of the ctrl/shift/amiga or alt keys and use F11 or some such
- key for that one which isn't as comfortable :-)
-
- In general though I'm quite happy with my Amiga keyboard, I haven't found a
- keyboard yet which rivals it (and I'm not talking about stuff like built-in
- calculators and the crappy 'natural' keyboards from MS (do they actually sell
- this stuff?))
-
- Grtz John
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