randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison) (10/08/87)
We just got a new Zenith 348 (?) here at work, and my pinkie is in extreme
pain. :-( It's got the wonderful, new, brain-damaged IBM style keyboard with
the CTRL key off in never-never land where no normal person's pinkie can
reach without aforementioned extreme pain.
My question to the net: Is there any way to fix this without a soldering
iron? My RT at home has the same problem, but it's a simple matter to swap
the CAPS-LOCK key with the CTRL key and put it back where it belongs. I
haven't seen anything in the documentation about solutions to the problem.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!!!
-randy
(another question: (or two, and a flame) Why did IBM start this insidious
trend? What poor malformed person at IBM has a pinkie that this is actually
useful for? Or is it just that people at IBM found they were using the CAPS-
LOCK key more often than the CTRL key? :-( There, that feels much better.
(mostly because i'm now on an old XT with a real CTRL key (and a broken \,
but that doesn't cause me pain, it's just an annoyance)))
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Randy Orrison, University of Minnesota School of Mathematics
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