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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 10:38:24 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4dfv70$19e@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <john.hendrikx.46af@grafix.xs4all.nl> <4de8g3$du6@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Summary: Changed opinions
- Keywords: Keyboards
-
- In article <4de8g3$du6@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- Byron Montgomerie <bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- >John Hendrikx (john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- >: 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 :-)
- >
- >True, but it is fairly easy to create keymaps on the amiga and pick something
- >comfortable.
-
- Then why are you wishing for a PC keyboard?
-
- >: 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?))
- >
- >I was talking about the low end mainly, the a1200 keyboard leaves something to
- >be desired.
-
- Design flaw which you have to get used to. Hopesully the A1200+ will
- have a better design.
-
- -=*George*=-
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