On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, John Floren wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:33 PM, David Griffith
<dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
Now that the current Sun keyboards are USB and don't feel like mush (like
the Type 6 does), I'm pondering getting a Type 7. Furthermore, I'm
thinking that perhaps other vendors of Linux machines should start
offering Type 7 keyboards. If you think about it, such a keyboard would
be perfect for getting people to use [lu]n[iu]x given the action keys
along the left side.
The most important question: is the Control key in the correct
position? Assuming I could find the extra real estate necessary for
it, I might even consider trying one of these in preference to the
Model M I'm using right now, because it looks just like the Type 5's I
quite like.
That's the rub. The UNIX model has Control in the right place, but I
never got used to the strange places that Backspace, Esc, \, and ` are.
The PC model fixes this, but then Control appears to be in the wrong
place. I'd like to get the PC model with a keycap kit to put a Control
key where it belongs. IMHO, there is no need for a Caps Lock key.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at
cs.csubak.edu
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