Monday, March 17, 2008
Sun Type 6 Keyboard
One of my favorite computer keyboard is the Sun Type 6. It ranks up there with the original IBM keyboards. It is a keyboard specially designed for Sun Workstations but will work with PC's running Windows. First it is a UNIX style keyboard which means the control key is next to the A key and caps lock is on the bottom row. At first this might seem awkward coming from a standard PC keyboard but after you use a ctrl key intensive application like Emacs it makes sense. One feature I really like to have in a keyboard are audio volume and mute which Type 6 keyboard has. Other features I really like are the dedicated cut, copy, and paste. I really wish this was a more common feature in all keyboards. There are a few weird keys that I still have yet to use like Compose, Alt Graph, and a blank key which I assume is meant to be user definable. Many of the special keys don't work in Windows but all of the standard keys work just fine.
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"Other features I really like are the dedicated cut, copy, and paste. I really wish this was a more common feature in all keyboards."
Me too!. I love the Sun Type 6 USB keyboard.
Too bad Sun choose to ignore Windows users (the Sun w1100z Java Workstations came preloaded with Sun JDS *or* Windows XP, so one would think that customizing a Windows XP keymap to match the Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C Ctrl-V would be in order?.
Apparently in Unix Copy, Paste, etc can be matched to a single character scancode. Whereas on Windows Ctrl-C is actually TWO keypresses (or that's what I gather from reading too many usenet posts).
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
But I'd still love to see someone release a patch/driver/tiny freeware utility that makes the Cut/Copy/Paste keys work in WinXP.
And it gets worse, because Linux has the same problem (no support for those keys).
Kudos from down under,
FC
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Me too!. I love the Sun Type 6 USB keyboard.
Too bad Sun choose to ignore Windows users (the Sun w1100z Java Workstations came preloaded with Sun JDS *or* Windows XP, so one would think that customizing a Windows XP keymap to match the Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C Ctrl-V would be in order?.
Apparently in Unix Copy, Paste, etc can be matched to a single character scancode. Whereas on Windows Ctrl-C is actually TWO keypresses (or that's what I gather from reading too many usenet posts).
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
But I'd still love to see someone release a patch/driver/tiny freeware utility that makes the Cut/Copy/Paste keys work in WinXP.
And it gets worse, because Linux has the same problem (no support for those keys).
Kudos from down under,
FC
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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