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Offline macguy80

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Just noticed something about my HHKB
« on: Wed, 29 March 2017, 17:34:50 »
The right Meta key has Stop printed on the front. I've never seen this on a Mac or PC keyboard. Is it a UNIX-layout thing?

The only STOP key I've ever seen was my Commodore 64! ;)

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Re: Just noticed something about my HHKB
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 29 March 2017, 18:37:23 »
Yes, it's a UNIX thing. Unix keyboards have a STOP key.
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Offline macguy80

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Re: Just noticed something about my HHKB
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 29 March 2017, 23:57:01 »
Thanks!

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Re: Just noticed something about my HHKB
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 30 March 2017, 05:15:40 »
I really thought you were going to say something like, "WTF?? I have to use key combinations for everything now—even stuff as basic as moving my cursor around? But that's a lot more work, not less. So why did I pay all that dough for this? So the babes in my office would see it and stop and say, 'Aw, what a cute l'il board!' and chat me up about it? But they're not doing that—and meanwhile, here I am stuck with this runty thing that makes me use two or three times as many keys to do stuff. In whose universe was this a good idea??"

But you didn't say anything like that, so okay.
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Re: Just noticed something about my HHKB
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 30 March 2017, 05:20:02 »
I really thought you were going to say something like, "WTF?? I have to use key combinations for everything now—even stuff as basic as moving my cursor around? But that's a lot more work, not less. So why did I pay all that dough for this? So the babes in my office would see it and stop and say, 'Aw, what a cute l'il board!' and chat me up about it? But they're not doing that—and meanwhile, here I am stuck with this runty thing that makes me use two or three times as many keys to do stuff. In whose universe was this a good idea??"

But you didn't say anything like that, so okay.


I came in here to say exactly that.. +  the hhkb is stupid, , Mu-Tron is the ultimate topre keyboard.. all flat keyboards are for plebs.