> -----Original Message-----
> From: der Mouse
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:54 PM
>
> > Besides, Sun kbs feel good.  The USB model 6s are nice, though I wish
> > there were USB model 5s!
>
> *shudder*  The model 5 is...well, I prefer it to a peecee keyboard, but
> that's rather like saying I'd rather have my fingers broken than my arm
> ripped off.  The type-3 is the last civilized keyboard Sun made, to my
> feel.  (Keyboard preferences are almost as good holy-war bait as editor
> preferences....)  Fortunately type-3s work fine on more modern machines
> with only a passive adapter, one that's easy to make.  (Anything that
> can use a type-4 can use a type-3 with an adapter, AFAICT.)

Personally, I like the type 5's... reasonably nice solid feel. At the risk
of being branded a heretic, I'll state that the one on my SS20 at home (and
my U10 at work) has the PC layout, rather than the traditional layout. Much
easier on my now-mistrained fingers. (And to think that I used to program on
a Televideo 950.)

> Mind you, I haven't actually tried any USB Sun keyboards.  But given
> the direction they were going with the 4 and then the 5, I doubt I'd
> care for them.

From what I can see, the USB ones are just type 6's with a interface.
Personally, I don't like them... flimsy, clicky, PC-like things. Out of
curiousity, has anyone ever seen one with anything other than a Unix layout?

FWIW, the PS/2 Sun keyboard I have (from a Javastation, I presume) is pretty
much a commodity PC keyboard in look and feel.

Am I any more a heretic if I also express a liking for the Crossbow (type 6)
mouse?

<<<John>>>