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Date:      Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:42:18 -0700
From:      Claus Assmann <freebsd+current@esmtp.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   real keyboard (was: Re: Laptop recommendations?)
Message-ID:  <20040928054217.GA18708@zardoc.esmtp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040927.225056.85393812.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <16728.36042.147168.928629@satchel.alerce.com> <1096323166.43375.8.camel@server.mcneil.com> <86fz5341hh.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> <20040927.225056.85393812.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Mon, Sep 27, 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> Happy Hacking Keyboard is to die for.  It is the one true keyboard
> layout and all this PC, Johnny-come-lately crowd who F*D up a
> perfectly good keyboard layout can rot in h*** for all I care.  The

I have two of those, but both of them already show wear; after just
4 years some keys, esp. "Shift", sometimes get stuck for a brief
moment. IMHO the quality isn't anyway near those older Sun keyboards
or the NCD keyboard I have at work, which is connected to a PC.
That is almost the real thing (Sun Type 5?) and it works flawlessly
for over 6 years (well, I had to remap most of the "special" keys,
and the function keys don't work during boot, but who needs that
with a real OS?).  Unfortunately nobody seems to sell those anymore.

Are there any other "real" (Unix/Sun type) keyboards that can be
connected to a PC (without USB if possible)?

[this is certainly off-topic for freebsd-current, would freebsd-hardware
be better?]



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