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by ams6110 5457 days ago
IIRC the vertical bar (or was it the tilde) was in a totally nonstandard and awkward place too... didn't seem very smart considering it was still a UNIX machine.

The navigation keys were not such a big deal once you realized that all text fields accepted basic Emacs keystrokes for cursor movement.
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spitfire 5457 days ago
Yup. The keys were wonky. Fine for openwrite, mathematica and such. Bad for programming.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Next_Station_Keyb...

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thought_alarm 5457 days ago 

    > Bad for programming.
Unless you like emacs. No Caps Lock taking up precious space, Control/meta/super keys in great position, and the emacs keybindings work not only in emacs, but system wide.
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