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On Fri, 16 Jan 98 23:47:11 EST, Robert Dewar wrote: ><<Buy an external PS/2 keyboard. I can get a very high quality one for >under $20 (soon I can get the click keyboard for that range!). >>> > >My notebook is far too mobile for this to be a viable alternative. One >of the reasons that I use a notebook is to have an absolutely consistent >computing interface, regardless of whether I am in a plane, train, or >at home :-) > >So far though, the 770 keyboard seems excellent. THe space bar is >occasionally a bit noisy, but overall, the best notebook keyboard >I have seen so far, but I guess one should reserve judgment till >I have pounded on it a couple of months. > Sounds like my $10 keyboard (the one I suggested, originally for a NeXT Step). >I must say, I find it quite remarkable to prefer NOT to run at maximum >brightness all the time. > Wish my 701 had a 14.1" TFT LCD! :-) >By the way, I am getting about 2 hours 50 minutes from the batteries >(that's with two 64meg mem modules installed). >(and of course everything on high power, no power saving stuff, except >for the screen, which is at normal rather than bright intensity). >(quite bright enough for almost any use). > And they make excellent flashlights in the event of a power outage. That happened during the summer when everyone had their air conditioner on (too bad my Linux machine went down, though). -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Proudly using OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 Donate your idle CPU time to a needy cause. Join Team Warped and help to crack RC5-64! Check out http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html for more information. The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 28 Processes with 101 Threads. This machine's uptime is 2d 19h 37m 15s 539ms.