Oh, I'm
going to have to disagree there! The LK201 has the same layout,
but the LK401 has a better look and feel! The only advantage the LK201 has
is the place to stick something that tells what the function keys are
mapped to. In fact the LK401 feels about as good as my Apple Extended II
Keyboard!
Okay, this lead me to pull an LK201 out of the closet. You're right, the
LK401
is not as mushy as the LK201.
That's only part of it, the angle of the keys are slightly different, and
(and this is the part that is really hard to explain) somehow the LK201
seems to have sharper corners to me, with the LK401 seeming to be a more
polished feel to it.
BTW, I just checked and it's a pair of LK450's I got recently, though I
think I've got a LK461 up in storage. The LK450 is almost identical to
LK401, except it's got the PS/2 interface, and the keyboard is about as
mushy as the LK201.
Of course for the people that prefer a VT100, none of these keyboards are a
substitute, but for those that want a proper keyboard for VMS, they're
great. I personally don't really care for the VT100 keyboard, though I am
trying to figure out where in here I can set one up as I want to use it to
access the PDP-10 emulators.
Zane
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