[geeks] musings

[Jody Stephens]

I concur, especially because the lock,alt(possibly), and the ctrl can 
interchange. And it feels soooo gooood. And it's got a nice big
backspace key as opposed to say... the sun type 4 which constantly
defeats me by making the delete and backspace keys small and close 
together. But then the type 5 has what seems like a itsy bitsy backspace 
key. 

What I really want to know, though, is why PC keyboards (or most 
any keyboard) has a frikkin caps lock key. In my entire life (albeit 
short, comparetivley) I have never needed the caps lock key (mmm... 
except for maybe LOGO, but that was probably on something that 
only did uppercase). And even if I did I would expect the application
to offer a "all-caps" mode. Daily I hit the caps lock and get into some 
obscure mode of vi or get angry because ctrl-d doesn't log me out. 
Oh well, then there is the SysReq key...

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 04:36:13PM -0400, Michael S. Schiller wrote:
> By far, the best keyboard ever made was the Northgate Omnikey series of
> keyboards. I've used them for years, and they even used to make a special set of
> keycaps so it could be used on a Commodore Amiga (where I first used one).
> 
> -Mike
> 
> Tugrul Galatali wrote:
> 
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