km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum) (05/07/88)
Shifting keyboards between the Mac II and SE at work and Mac Plus at home is about to drive me bonkers. Does anyone know of a keyboard for the Mac Plus that has real control and escape keys? -Ken Mitchum Decision Systems Laboratories University of Pittsburgh km@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu
hpoppe@scdpyr.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) (05/09/88)
In article <1174@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum) writes: >Shifting keyboards between the Mac II and SE at work and Mac Plus at home >is about to drive me bonkers. Does anyone know of a keyboard for the Mac Plus >that has real control and escape keys? "Olduvai Corp. makes the ADBridge. It is a hardware interface that lets users connect older devices (such as trackballs, tablets, joysticks, etc.) to a Macintosh SE and II and allows 512KE and Mac Plus users to use the "new" ADB mice and keyboards (including the Apple Extended Keyboard)." "An accompanying software utility provides automatic configuration and allows for users of older machines to address the function keys available on many Apple Desktop Bus keyboards." $129 retail Olduvai Corp. 7520 Red Rd. Ste. A South Miami, FL 33143 (305) 665-4665 "DataDesk International makes the Mac-101 Enhanced Keyboard; a full-function keyboard for all Macintoshes." DataDesk International 7651 Haskell Ave. Van Nuys, CA 91406 (800) 826-5398 (800) 592-9602 So says "The Macintosh Buyers Guide". I don't know anything else about these products. Standard disclaimers apply. Herb Poppe NCAR INTERNET: hpoppe@scdpyr.UCAR.EDU (303) 497-1296 P.O. Box 3000 CSNET: hpoppe@ncar.CSNET Boulder, CO 80307 UUCP: hpoppe@scdpyr.UUCP
moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (05/12/88)
>In article <1174@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum) writes: >>Shifting keyboards between the Mac II and SE at work and Mac Plus at home >>is about to drive me bonkers. Does anyone know of a keyboard for the Mac Plus >>that has real control and escape keys? Hmm.. by "real", I assume you mean a ctrl key in the middle-left-hand side of the keyboard, and an escape key in the upper-left-hand corner. I have the DataDesk, and the non-ADB version (for the Mac Plus) has no real control keys, just an option and Clover key near the space bar at the bottom. No escape key either, though I use VersaTerm, which does a nice aliasing feature for the ` key. I use a Sun/3 keyboard all day, and while there is a touch of culture shock on getting home, the Datadesk is *so* nice and comfortable that it takes only a few seconds to get used to it (I'm up to my high school speed of typing with the DataDesk). We've got a Tangent Technologies keyboard in-house for the Mac+. It has a real control key but no real escape key. THe user is expected to use the ctrl key as a Clover key when using the Mac (they're equivalent to my Mental KeySearch brain cells, anyway...). "You can thank the Rock 'n Roll detector for leading you to your doom!" "Thanks!" --- Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind... <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>