Meta (Compose) Key Strangeness on DS3100
Leeland Heins
heins at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu
Wed Aug 30 08:08:38 AEST 1989
In article <19308 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
(a lot of totally justified grousing about the ugly LK201 keyboard)
Chris,
Well, you could take the approach I have on several occasions...
rip the keyboard apart and do some manual remapping. I've done this
to several imitations of the awful IBM-PC, IBM-AT or the really
unbearable IBM "Enhanced" keyboard... Unfortunately, University
administrators really frown on hacking up their equipment. :-(
Unfortunately, I think the LK201 is beyond hope for this kind of
mods since the return key is the wrong shape...
Is there anyone that makes a fixed keyboard that is compatible with
the LK201? I'd really like to replace all of them that we have around
here with something that is bearable.
What I really want is this:
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ________
| || ! || @ || # || $ || % || ^ || & || * || ( || ) || _ || + || |
|esc|| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 0 || - || = || delete |
`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`--------'
_______ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
| || || || || || || || || || || || { || } || | |
| tab || q || w || e || r || t || y || u || i || o || p || [ || ] || \ |
`-------'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'
________ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ________
| || || || || || || || || || || : || " || |
| ctrl || a || s || d || f || g || h || j || k || l || ; || ' || return |
`--------'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`--------'
__________ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ __________
| || || || || || || || || < || > || ? || |
| shift || z || x || c || v || b || n || m || , || . || / || shift |
`----------'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'`----------'
____ ___ ___ ________________________________ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
|caps|| ~ || || ||opt|| / ||\ /|| ^ || \ |
|lock|| ` ||cmd|| space ||ion|| \ || v ||/ \|| / |
`----'`---'`---'`--------------------------------'`---'`---'`---'`---'`---'
Command and Option keys could be relabeled whatever meta-type keys were
appropriate.
Of course you'd need to add "Hold screen", "Print screeen", "Setup" and
"Break" keys.
Putting a Backspace key just to the right of the Delete key would be O.K.
too... and caps lock could go to the left of Ctrl also...
If f-keys are absolutely necessary (I don't like 'em, I don't use 'em), they
should be lined up directly above the numbers. A numeric keypad could be
put directly to the right of the main keyboard.
>In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163)
>Domain: chris at mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
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