From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 9 14:19: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pinhead.parag.codegen.com (207-44-235-154.CodeGen.COM [207.44.235.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C87F137B51E for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 14:19:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parag@pinhead.parag.codegen.com) Received: from pinhead.parag.codegen.com (parag@localhost.parag.codegen.com [127.0.0.1]) by pinhead.parag.codegen.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA17561; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 14:19:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parag@pinhead.parag.codegen.com) To: Eaglez Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keyboards w/no windows keys In-Reply-To: Message from Eaglez of "Sun, 09 Jul 2000 13:56:55 PDT." <20000709205655.1835.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Organization: CodeGen, Inc. X-Image-URL: http://www.codegen.com/images/CG-logo-only.gif X-URL: http://www.codegen.com X-Face: =O'Kj74icvU|oS*<7gS/8'\Pbpm}okVj*@UC!IgkmZQAO!W[|iBiMs*|)n*`X ]pW%m>Oz_mK^Gdazsr.Z0/JsFS1uF8gBVIoChGwOy{EK=<6g?aHE`[\S]C]T0Wm Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 14:19:02 -0700 Message-ID: <17557.963177542@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> From: Parag Patel Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 13:56:55 PDT, Eaglez wrote: > >But for right now, is there a place >to get old 102 key keyboards, or anything really, for >$12 or so? Your best-bet may be to find a local computer junk shop and browse through their used keyboard collection. They may not all work so buy extras. Given how cheap new keyboards are, this probably isn't a good use of time or money. www.centralcomputers.com has some cheap new keyboards for ~$11-15 - other vendors may even have them cheaper. Just pop out the dreaded Windows key, or glue a custom label on top, say a drawing of a middle-finger, raised, in front of the logo. :) I currently use cheap PC keyboards and use X's xmodmap command to turn the caps-lock into a control key, and map the tilde/grave ~` key to escape if it is in the upper-left corner. I've also built a similar keyboard mapping for the console. That makes PC keyboards close enough to the Sun/Unix keyboards for me. >i think it'd >have been infinatly better if they'd just done cursors >like on the old macs, in one row or column. Personally, I prefer an inverted-"T" layout for cursor keys. I've kinda gotten used to using PageUp/PageDown as well. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message