9 Feb
2021
9 Feb
'21
2:41 a.m.
On 8 Feb 2021, at 4:43 am, Mary Ann Horton <mah(a)mhorton.net> wrote:
I hated it when the PC-AT came along and moved Ctrl down and Esc up! I depend on Ctrl
being to the left of A and Esc left of 1, where God intended them to be! I used a Sun
keyboard with a DIN adapter for years, until I came to SDG&E in 2007 and discovered a
cache of USB Sun keyboards, half with the UNIX layout (yay!) and half with the PC layout
(boo!) Word got around quickly that I liked them, and I wound up with several UNIX layout
Sun keyboards. For good measure, I bought a 10-pack on eBay, so I'll have spares
until the day they peel my cold dead fingers away from my UNIX layout keyboard.
As a long time emacs user that change drives me nuts but thankfully re-mapping
makes things usable - cap-lock -> ctrl, swap left-alt and Windows-key (meta).
BTW if you like buckling springs Unicomp make a Sun layout keyboard that looks
okay - https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/40PSA (larger image at
https://www.pckeyboard.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/Sun%20Keyboard1000x1000_80… )
I’ve been using their IBM layout keyboards for years (mostly on Macs) and found them
reliable and great to type on. But YMMV of course. If I were in the USA I’d get one
of these Sun layout boards in an instant but shipping one to Australia costs more the
keyboard which irks me enough to say no (at least for the time being).
