young-jonathan@YALE.ARPA.UUCP (01/30/87)
In-Reply-To: Ashwin Ram's message of Wed, 28 Jan 87 15:27:45 est
Is there any way to disable the (badly located) CAPS LOCK key on
the DN3000 keyboards?
I agree. I think the CAPS LOCK key is extremely poorly engineered on the
new DN3000 keyboards.
I suppose we can pry off the key-top just like we did with the BREAK keys
on the datamedias. There has to be a better way.
--- Jonathan
-------Giebelhaus@HI-MULTICS.ARPA.UUCP (01/30/87)
I'll put in my vote too. I don't see that Apollo moved the placement of the key a whole lot, it is just easier to push. If they would put a stronger spring under the key, that might do the trick.
mishkin@EDDIE.MIT.EDU@apollo.UUCP (01/31/87)
I think that Apollo keyboards in general are poorly engineered. I
hadn't run into a keyboard with contact bounce for YEARS--until I
recently started using a low profile DN300 keyboard. I hadn't SEEN
a keyboard using the archaic REPEAT key--until I started using an
Apollo. The 3000 doesn't seem to have corrected the latter problem.
I haven't used the 3000 enough to notice whether the contact bounce
has been fixed.
I know I'm biased, and the caps lock thing is surely a pain, but your
message seems way overdrawn. I've used a LOT of keyboards in my life
-- including the current ones of our competitors -- and if anything,
I'd say the later DN300 keyboards (the ones that have a bit of click-feel
to them) and the DN3000 keyboards are at least as good, if not better
than all those others. I've NEVER had a bounce problem with one of these
keyboards. Perhaps yours is simply defective.
If you want to see a really bad keyboard, look at the ones that came
with the DN400s.
-- Nat Mishkin
Apollo Computer Inc.
apollo!mishkin
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