[TUHS] Typing tutors

[Henry Bent]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021, 16:34 Nemo Nusquam <cym224 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/02/2021 12:43, Mary Ann Horton wrote (in part):
> > 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.
> My Sun UNIX layout keyboards (and mice) work quite well with my Macs. I
> share your sentiments.
>

There was an early Apple ADB keyboard with control in the "right" place. I
had two and I used them for many years with ADB to USB adapters until the
keyboards became unreliable.

drakaware.com makes a variety of keyboard adapters, including a Sun to USB
if you just can't give up your Type 5 (or type 4!)

-Henry

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