On Mon, 08 May 2000, Paul Robinson generated:
>One thing I noticed from looking at the pics of it was that there are no f
>keys, but instead, a Fn button.. Changing terminals would then be a case of
>alt + fn + 1 -6. ouchies. and imagine breaking out of X to a terminal for a
>moment would be a case of ctrl + alt + fn + um.. umm.. how would you get
>f12 on a 1 - 0 numbering system? would it be the +/= button??
I read they were designed on the old MIT and associates terminal
keyboards, where you'd have all your control sequences as
alt-shift-quad-bucky-esc... look up 'triple-bucky' in ESR's hackers
dictionary -- I think this is where Emacs gets most of its key sequences
from, too ;)
>And considering you can pick up el cheapo kb's for $25 I can't see myself
>going out and spending $130 odd for less keys. Must be the scottish blood
>in me :). And besides, I'd have to say I like having a numeric keypad..
>helps for spreadsheets.
We had a flyer at work for them, I think the intended audience is coders
and people who aren't going to be doing the ol' data entry thang.
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jamesw
<Hoju> Keyboard solo! skskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskksksksksks
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