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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!de351
- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PC keyboard on the Amiga (was Re: Walker compatible)
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 22:35:46 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: de351@freenet3.carleton.ca (K. C. Lee)
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- References: <19960418.7BAF780.F14F@mother.com> <4laft6$384@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- Reply-To: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
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-
- George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) writes:
- >>Been done. In Wonder Computers Inc's last days the Lazarus devision released
- >>their "KB-10" keyboard interface which does exactly what you mentioned. AND
- >>the still unused keys could be remapped to other functions. The one we used
- >>in store had the page up/page down keys set up to allow one key swapping of
- >>public screens. Hopefully now that Wonder is returning as Wonder Intl we'll
- >>see this little critter back on the market soon.
-
- Yeap this critter survived. As a matter of fact, Lazarus is now an
- independent company. It has just purchased the intellectual right to it as
- well as a few other projects. I will be responsible to try to get this
- product back in production in next few months among other important things.
- Hopefully I'll live up to the standard of my predecessor.
-
- See the formal announcement in .announce for more detail on Lazarus.
-
- > EPP Parallel port aided by Intel and Windows keyboard by Microsoft, with
- > Escom being a PC dealer, think this was done intentionally to give these
- > companies a share of the pie?
-
- :) :) :) Actually I think the EPP, faster serial port comes as freebie
- when they put in the HD MSDOS support with nonmodified drives. It is
- pretty to get something other than a Super I/O chip even if you only want
- to buy a floppy controller.
-
- > -=*George*=-
-
- K. C. Lee (MSc EE.)
-