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- From: terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen)
- Subject: Re: A1200 keyboard (A600 owners?)
- References: <1992Nov4.143513.17319@decuac.dec.com> <10014@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> <13562@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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- Organization: University of Tromsoe
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:10:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.221033.1787@news.uit.no>
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- In article <13562@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF) writes:
- >In <10014@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- >peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Nov4.143513.17319@decuac.dec.com>
- >>bell@ufp.enet.dec.com () writes:
- >>>
- >>>Hi. I got the A1200.gif, and I notice that the A1200 keyboard is
- >>>different from my A500 by two keys.
- >
- >>European keyboards (for all those accented characters) have these two
- >>extra keys standard. Perhaps they chose in manufacturing to build only
- >>one sort of keyboard, so that the US version now gets two white/empty
- >>keys? I think, it's this way at least with the A600, perhaps the same
- >>with the A1200. (Didn't see US production units yet, and won't for some
- >>time, I assume. :-)
- >
- >In the U.K. also, the 1200 extra keys are white with nothing mapped
- >onto them, bloody useful for commodities though!
-
- Ohh....
- That I would've just loved on my keyboard.....
- Some special keys just for commodities so I wouldn't need to worry eny more
- about collisions with other programs.
-
-
- Terje Marthinussen
- terjem@stud.cs.uit.no
-