Subject: Re: any UNIXish mice or keyboards for USB Macintoshes?
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel@eskimo.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/01/2001 00:01:14
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:44:41PM +1100, Charlie Allom wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:38:45PM +1100, Charlie Allom wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:58:42PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:27:49PM -0800, Derek Peschel wrote:
> > > 
> > I can't see the picture clearly enough. where is the Control key on
> > the HHKB2?
> 
> er OK I found the large picture. duh. the control key is in the center
> like on my Sun keyboard. Who started this? Or who was the first to put
> the key somewhere else?

Teletype keyboards generally have the Control key near the A (I know the
model 33 does), and they were the first devices to use ASCII, roughly
in the early '60s.  I don't know who moved the Control key down to the
bottom.

-- Derek