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From: Chris Ridd on 22 Jan 2010 12:54 On 2010-01-22 15:19:28 +0000, James Dore said: > Ah, you've used Sun Sparcstations then?! L1-A is jolly useful. -- Chris
From: Chris Ridd on 22 Jan 2010 12:55 On 2010-01-22 15:38:23 +0000, Woody said: > I have a sparc to PS/2 keyboard adapter (by belkin I think), which was > quite handy when I used to that way. I am sure there are USB ones > available somewhere Type 7 keyboards are USB. I think... Get them before they get rebranded? -- Chris
From: Rowland McDonnell on 22 Jan 2010 13:22 Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > D.M. Procida wrote: > > Rowland McDonnell<real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > >> Good thinking - for all that I find Mac help is mostly annoying for me > >> these days, I do recall that when I changed over to Macs from Macs, I > >> found the basic stuff for new years in Mac Help was very useful. > > > > I was doing some stuff in System 7.0 last night in HyperCard - and I'd > > forgotten how nifty Balloon Help was. > > Yes. I learnt all about how to use Eudora V.early *only* from the baloon > help. Ditto. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 22 Jan 2010 14:33 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:55:10 +0000, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >On 2010-01-22 15:38:23 +0000, Woody said: > >> I have a sparc to PS/2 keyboard adapter (by belkin I think), which was >> quite handy when I used to that way. I am sure there are USB ones >> available somewhere > >Type 7 keyboards are USB. I think... Get them before they get rebranded? They're cheesy and light as well though. No fun. Cheers - Jaimie -- "First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs." - Quoted by Peter Ellis, afp
From: David Empson on 22 Jan 2010 17:20
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> You can also choose to use a different keyboard, which has the > > > > >> full range of keys including a separate "del" or "forward delete" > > > > >> key. Apple has a full-sized USB keyboard, and most third party > > > > >> USB keyboards also work on a Mac. > > > > > > > > > > Really? I've never found *one* non-Apple keyboard that gave me > > > > > `eject'. > > > > > > > > > > How does one get that sort of thing to work with a non-Apple > > > > > keyboard? > > > > > > > > It maps to one of the function keys. > > > > > > <puzzled> > > > > > > Well, I've got fn1-fn19. > > > > > > fn1-fn4, fn7-fn12 all have specific functions. > > > > > > Pressing - one at a time, for a count of 5 each - fn5, fn6, fn13-fn19, > > > has just produced no eject from the optical drive (which contains a disc > > > and no disc-using apps being active). > > > > > > Pressing the eject key for a count of about 1 or 2 got the `eject' > > > symbol and a disc ejection. > > > > > > The eject key is sat between F12 and F13. > > > > > > <shrug> > > > > > > So which `fn' key does `eject' map to? And how does that enable a > > > non-Apple keyboard to work on a Mac? > > > > You have a keyboard with a dedicated eject key, recognised by the Mac, > > so it doesn't map "eject" to any of the numbered function keys. > > I once bought a keyboard designed for Macs. It had a dedicated eject > key, which one would have assumed would be so recognised. Except it > wasn't - but if its as obvious as you say to get it to work, what I saw > wouldn't have happened. Would it? Apple recognises all of their own keyboards, and the eject key on them (which is what you have now). I can't say whether that extends to third-party keyboards with an eject key, as I've never seen one. Perhaps this particular keyboard needed a device driver to map the keys correctly, or perhaps it worked at some point but Apple broke something in a later system version which prevented it from being recognised properly. If the system didn't recognise the keyboard, it probably mapped eject to F12 and ignored the eject key. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz |