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- From: ekrieger@quasar.hacktic.nl (Eric Krieger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 keyboard (A600 owners?)
- Message-ID: <ekrieger.02mj@quasar.hacktic.nl>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:23:06 GMT+1
- References: <1992Nov4.143513.17319@decuac.dec.com> <1992Nov4.165535.27089@ida.liu.se>
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- In article <1992Nov4.165535.27089@ida.liu.se> e91petmo@odalix.ida.liu.se
- (Peter /\/\odin) writes:
-
- > 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. The left shift key is shorter than
- > >on mine, and there's a new key because of that (left of the 'Z'). And
- > >the RETURN key has been shortened; there's a new key at the end of the
- > >"ASDFGH" etc. line.
- >
- > (This could be completely wrong, but I hardly think so!)
- > European (all? most, anyway) keyboards have that extra key, right
- > to the left of the 'Z' key.
-
- No, not all Europeans. We in The Netherlands (AKA Holland) are using
- the 'normal' (international) Keyboards (same as the USA ones).
-
- > Since many non-english languages have more letters in their alphabet,
- > they need more keys! What you got was a picture of a European version
- > of the A1200. As far as I know, ALL computers (like the Sparc I'm using
- > now) here has that key.
-
- It looks like the German Keyboard, because it isn't a QWERTY but a
- QWERTZ keyboard (with some extra keys).
-
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