Hi, Charlie: Yes, outstanding keypads on Thinkpad. At least, they're highly popular and award winning. The only thing I've noticed, and it's only been occassional for me, is a kind of freeze where I can't press F10, for example, because what I get when I do is actually Ctrl-F10. And, in WordPerfect for DOS, of course, that means you can't exit with F7! <grin> Ergo, the reboot. I have not seen this with my T20, insofar as I recall, but I also have not run WordPerfect for DOS since I can recall. So, I'm not sure I've seen this in at least two years--about as long as I've had the T20. Could be IBM, could be the WP, however, as well. Charles Crawford writes: > From: ccrawford at acb.org > > Janina, > > I am impressed with your talking about the think Pad, I have > always loved the keyboards on those laptops. If someone ploans on dual > booting however, they should be aware at least on my think pad, the damn > thing loses its keyboard mapping in DOS and I havew not been able to do > anything but reboot to get it back. I have even gone so far as to create > a boot disk so Windows is never seen, but still the same. Either a pathing > problem to whatever controls the keyboard or a hardware thing. don't > know. > > Having said that, I don't know if there would be aproblem with > Linux but if I convert the thing to Linux, then it will be all linux. > > -- charlie. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
