10.0566 keyboards

WILLARD MCCARTY (willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:38:39 +0000 (GMT)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 10, No. 566.
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton/Rutgers)
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
Information at http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/

[1] From: Germaine Warkentin <warkent@chass.utoronto.ca> (7)
Subject: keyboard thanks

[2] From: David Hoover <hoover@is.nyu.edu> (61)
Subject: Re: 10.0560 planctus tabulae clavum

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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:36:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Germaine Warkentin <warkent@chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: keyboard thanks

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From: Germaine Warkentin <warkent@chass.utoronto.ca>

Warmest thanks to all those who sent information about keyboards, even
including those who told me to get a mouse! Germaine.

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Germaine Warkentin warkent@chass.utoronto.ca
English, Victoria College, University of Toronto

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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 17:08:36 -0500 (EST)
From: David Hoover <hoover@is.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: 10.0560 planctus tabulae clavum

The laptop problem may be intractable, though old DOS users have long
reassigned keys using "ANSI.SYS". Unfortunately, Windows doesn't recognize
the reassignments.

My current Gateway keyboard has the configuration below:

F1 F2 ~ ! @ # ......etc.

F3 F4 Tab Q W E R T Y....

F5 F6 Caps A S D F....
Lock

F7 F8 Shift Z X C V....

F9 F10 Ctrl * Alt

Surely only a very strange mind could have thought this up.

Fortunately, the keyboard is programmable, so I've been able to switch
Ctrl to where Caps Lock was, Alt to where Ctrl was, and Caps Lock to where
Alt was. Now my fingers are happy.

The key is flexibility.

David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832
Webmaster, NYU English Dept. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/
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