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- From: rico@disaster.hacktic.nl (Rico Jansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 keyboard (A600 owners?)
- Message-ID: <Q-jXr*pg0@disaster.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 19:07:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.143513.17319@decuac.dec.com>
- Organization: HIN - Disaster Area
- Lines: 17
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- In article <1992Nov4.143513.17319@decuac.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.
- >
- > Does anyone know what the heck they are? I assume that they're on the
- > A600 and A4000 keyboards as well.
-
- Well those keys are on my Amiga 500+ too. They are blank, the explanation
- given by the manual is that they are for differences between the keyboards
- of various countries. E.g. Germany with its swapped Z and Y, France and Belgium
- with there AZERTY layout and accents. You get the picture.
-
- Rico Jansen (rico@disaster.hacktic.nl)
-