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- From: bdraschk@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Bernd Raschke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Blank keys on the A1200?
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 11:53:50 GMT
- Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
- Message-ID: <1imeceEINN1i1@uni-erlangen.de>
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- eamon@netcom.com (Charles E Taggart) writes:
-
- >The left-shift key and the return keys are quite a bit smaller than those
- >on the Amiga keyboard that I've been used to for the last six years. I
- >found that I was consistently missing those keys while typing (I'm pretty
- >fast, and I had much more trouble with the left-shift than the return).
-
- >The reason for this is the addition of two blank keys, same size as the
- >letter keys. I couldn't figure out what they're for, and as usual, the
- >clueless salesmen at Creative didn't know either (at least they didn't try
- >to make something up this time).
-
- >What's the deal with these keys? Do they serve some essential function?
- >And is the keyboard (which otherwise seems exactly the same) replaceable
- >with a standard A500 replacement keyboard?
- That's curious. Apparently this is a production error, or C= want's to save
- money by building only ONE version of the keyboard for Germany and USA. These
- two blank keys are needed for the German layout of the Keyboard. The left one
- has > and <, i don't remember the letters for the right one.
- If your dealer has the Germann keyboard file installed, try prefs/input and
- select the German keyboard, the two keys should work then.
-
- Ciao,
- Arty
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