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0 pointsLorenPechtel5y ago0 comments

I'm not the guy you're responding to but I use the very same keyboard. I don't use the keypad a lot, but when I'm typing a bunch of numbers I do.

As far as I'm concerned it has yet to be matched, let alone beat. These days nobody puts the function keys on the left--I can reliably touch-type function keys on the left, I can't reliably touch-type function keys on top.

Also, the ability to switch around ctrl/alt/caps-lock is very nice. I might use caps lock once a year, putting it down by the space bar doesn't matter. Ctrl and Alt I use a lot, they're much easier to touch-type in the shifted positions.

Please, somebody, reincarnate the king!!

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pwg5y ago

Ah, I forgot the ability to, in the keyboard itself, swap the left control and caps lock key by flipping a DIP switch.

I set mine that way back in 1991 when I first bought it, and it has remained that way since.

And Northgate supplied a key puller, and two alternate keycaps, so that when one flipped the DIP switch, one could also swap the keycaps so they were actually properly labeled for their function.

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