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- From: Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>
- Subject: Re: powerbook as keyboard
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.014348.21228@bilby.cs.uwa.edu.au>
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- References: <1992Sep1.155918.13332@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:43:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.155918.13332@athena.mit.edu> Daniel Cameron Daly,
- cam@athena.mit.edu writes:
- >I am getting ready to switch over to the dvorak keyboard, as an
- experiment,
- >but I was concerned about being able to modify other keyboards as I go.
- >I don't know much about the Apple ADB port, but would it be possible to
- >simply connect the powerbook's ADB port directly to a desktop Mac and use
- >it as a keyboard?
-
- No. ADB only allows one bus master (ie one Macintosh) on any given
- bus. Also PowerBook keyboards (or at least the one in the PB100/
- Portable) are not standard ADB devices but strangely integrated with
- the power management processor.
-
- >I would probably have to change the keyboard to a dvorak
- >type on the desk Mac, but other than that, should this work?
-
- The only advantage I see of using your PowerBook as a keyboard is
- that is has the key caps appropriately munged. This, I maintain, is
- not really an advantage. If you're going to spend time learning
- to Dvorak you should spend the time and do it properly. This means
- NEVER looking at the keyboard. So having the keyboard markings wrong
- is actually an advantage. You sure as hell wont be looking at the
- keyboard for help!
-
- I learnt to Dvorak by printing out a map of the key caps (actually
- a screen dump of the Key Caps DA) and using the printout as a guide.
- You still have to look down but you're not looking at the keyboard.
-
- Besides leaving the key caps in QWERTY is a service to your fellow
- human being who can neither Dvorak nor touchtype.
-
- Quinn "The Eskimo!" <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au> "Support HAVOC!"
- Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
- -- Dvorak PB100 owner and damned proud of it!
-