jiro@heights.cit.cornell.edu (01/22/90)
My mouse and keyboard had been feeling unwell lately (too much
hacking on Cassandra) and I went to my local NeXT rep. at Cornell
to see how much it would cost to get them replaced:
Keyboard: $303.25
Mouse: $135
+ shipping + New York's 7%
Phew.... NeXT is making a hefty chunk with those.... Now I see
why a one year service contract is $800... (By the way, all these
prices are academic prices, multiply by a suitable fudge factor
for Businessland (try 150%)).
I was wondering if any third part distributors were going to come
out with suitably color matched NeXT keyboards and mice (You can have
any color, as long as it's black). I'd be interested and would love to
hear if there is any information concerning this...
And on the subject, possible keyboard and mice improvements:
Keyboard: Function keys for better vt100 and other terminal emulation.
Put the dits on the keys where they belong (off from the f
and j keys and back on the d and k keys (the dits are the
upraised thingamajigs....))
Put the tilde where it belongs, shift-esc is silly.
Make the power-off COMMAND-POWER like it should be, I
hit it far too many times while adjusting the sound and
brightness.
Mouse: Three buttons?
Optical mice?
Trackballs?
- jiro nakamura -
jiro@heights.cit.cornell.edu