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- From: Adam Burns <adburns@awod.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga keyboard...
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 18:55:11 -0600
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- Reg Martin wrote:
- >
- > John Hendrikx (john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- > :
- > : 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?))
- >
- > In general, I agree with you John -- I prefer my 4000 keyboard over *most*
- > PC keyboards, but I gotta say that I *LOVE* the MS natural keyboards. If
- > I use any other keyboard for an extended amount of time, my hands and
- > wrists get seriously cramped. The natural keyboards are a joy to use IMHO.
- > I would really like to see AT use PC keyboards in the future though, simply
- > because there is such a huge selection of them, and they can be had for
- > next to nothing...
- >
- > Reg Martin
-
-
- I am surprised that there isn't more support for this very idea. At
- one time there was an IBM-PC keyboard adapter cable sold, which
- allowed Amiga users to connect IBM-AT (101 key) keyboards to their
- Amiga's. The left and right Amiga keys were re-mapped to F-11 and
- F-12. (Granted, not as convenient a location...) I believe this
- same sort of hack was (is) used to connect keyboards to CD-32 units
- equipped with the SX-1 module. Since the new Microsoft keyboard has
- the specialty keys already, it would seem a simple proposition to
- re-map them as Amiga keys.
-
- Adam Burns
-