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- From: buckc@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Carolyn Buck-Gengler)
- Subject: advice on keyboards, please
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.202337.19657@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:23:37 GMT
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- I am about to buy my own mac, and have pretty much settled on an
- LCII. I've also pretty much talked my husband into the 4/80,
- instead of the 4/40 (:-), but if I get that one, I need to buy a
- keyboard as well. I think I want an extended keyboard, mostly
- because I KNOW I hate how the arrow keys are on the regular
- keyboard. (CU has a huge lab of macs, and I've often had an older
- one with regular keyboard.)
-
- Apple's extended keyboards, cheapest I've found, are here at CU's
- Buffalo Chip, for student price of 159.
-
- CompUSA in Denver offers the DATADESK Mac 101E Keyboard (extended
- keyboard) for 129.99.
-
- My questions to you HW gurus are:
- 1) are there any other makers of extended keyboards out there that I
- haven't run into yet?
- 2) (more important) is the DATADESK (or other maker) ok/as good as
- APPLE/sufficient/to be avoided at all costs?
- 3) are there any reasons other than the difference in arrow keys to
- get the extended keyboard (I can't recall using the function keys in
- my meanderings with Word, Excell, etc, but can they be used
- usefully?)
-
- Thank you for your advice!
- I'll try to read it in the group, but if possible, please also send
- email: buckc@ucsu.colorado.edu
-
- Carolyn Buck-Gengler
-