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On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:49:56AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> For me, it's a matter of viability. The "Saratoga II" (*) keyboard I got
> with my IIsi in 1990 has outlived the keyboard I got with my Beige G3 in
> like 1998.

I have maybe three of those, and they're exactly the keyboard I was
thinking of. (Though I've always called them what the label does,
"Apple Extended II".) They're superior not just for these reasons,
but also because they use three circuit panels (each of which takes
maybe four key presses at a time), rather than only two (as the
later AppleDesign keyboards do). I cared about this mostly for
Marathon (www.bungie.com; they're part of Microsoft now, bleh), but
I actually have had AppleDesigns drop keystrokes while just typing
regularly on them. (Yes, I touch type.)

The Saratoga bit is a piece of Apple history I hadn't heard before.
Neat. :^>

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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